Tuesday, July 1, 2025

Ohio House Speaker Arrested in Alleged $60 Million Racketeering, Bribery, Money Laundering Scheme; A Window Into Politics in America

Ohio’s biggest political corruption case is a doozy, with riveting racketeering charges and lots of dirty tricks.

Boeing 737 Max Ungrounding Pushed Back Again; WSJ Sources Say Early 2021

Moar bad news for the 737 Max.

Random Testing in Indiana Shows COVID-19 is 6 Times Deadlier Than Flu, and 2.8% of the State Has Been Infected

Sobering data from the first random statewide Covid-19 survey.

2:00PM Water Cooler 7/21/2020

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Recovery of Collapsed Airline Traffic in the US Backtracks

Traffiic data confirmed warnings by United and Delta of re-declining ticket sales, seinding airline shares down 3.7% intraday.

Links 7/21/2020

COVID-19 and the Garment Industry’s Invisible Hands

How the cornacrisis has led to investigations of garment industry supply chains to unearth worker exploitation and shady contractors.

Immaculate Deception, Fed Style

The Fed knows it it is up to no good as far as ordinary citizens are concerned, witness its propaganda efforts.

As Covid-19 Patients Skew Younger, Tracing Task Seems All But Impossible

Why Covid-19 infecting younger people is making disease contaiment harder.

How the SARS-COV-2 Virus Gets In and How to Block It: Aerosols, Droplets, Masks, Shields (with Discussion of Reinfection)

A symposium on SARS-COV-2 transmission, plus an aggregation of the findable cases of SARS-COV-2 reinfection (with commentary and speculation).

2:00PM Water Cooler 7/20/2020

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Contagious Protests

Street protests propagate across borders. The results point to social media as a vehicle for contagion.

Links 7/20/2020

Covid-19 Economic Realities Sinking in as Denialism Wanes, Desperation Rises

Putting some ugly Covid-19 facts together.

While EU Leaders Squabble, The Elephant in the Room Remains Unnoticed

Why the EU Covid-19 rescue program is destined to be a sick joke.