PLATT - MISC News

SPECIAL
'Fiction is outperforming reality': how YouTube's algorithm distorts truth (YouTube elected Trump !?!?)
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/feb/02/how-youtubes-algorithm-distorts-truth?utm_source=esp&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=GU+Today+USA+-+Collections+2017&utm_term=262695&subid=24222148&CMP=GT_US_collection

The deadly ignorance on the road to Rome
http://www.jewishworldreview.com/cols/pruden020218.php3

GENERAL INTEREST
How a dog was 'approved' for $360 per week in unemployment benefits
http://www.jewishworldreview.com/0218/dog_unenployment.php3

The Mental Tricks of Athletic Endurance
https://www.wsj.com/article_email/the-mental-tricks-of-athletic-endurance-1517583851-lMyQjAxMTI4NzA0MzcwNDMzWj/

Read The Funny Exchange Between Shapiro And The Rock
https://www.dailywire.com/news/26700/shapiro-and-johnson-hank-berrien

Did you see the showering rat video? It explains why Trump won 
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/feb/03/showering-rat-video-trump-outrage-skincare-olive-garden?utm_source=esp&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=GU+Today+USA+-+Collections+2017&utm_term=262827&subid=24222148&CMP=GT_US_collection

HEALTH
Nurse's hilarious flu rant goes viral: 'Just wash your stinking hands!'
https://www.yahoo.com/style/nurses-hilarious-flu-rant-goes-viral-just-wash-stinking-hands-180931809.html

U.S. Pays Billions for ‘Assisted Living,’ but What Does It Get?
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/03/us/politics/assisted-living-gaps.html?mabReward=ART_CBD1&recid=103ckFi2aSfsS2FF5ZNlmrCMvza&recp=2&module=WelcomeBackModal&contentCollection=Politics&region=FixedCenter&action=click&src=recg&pgtype=article

Is the White House Finally About to Embrace the CREATES Act?
https://townhall.com/columnists/mytheosholt/2018/02/02/is-the-white-house-finally-about-to-embrace-the-creates-act-n2443573?utm_source=thdaily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl&newsletterad=

FINANCIAL
The risks of an economic 'hard landing' are rising in the US
https://www.yahoo.com/finance/news/risks-economic-hard-landing-rising-us-165403902.html

6 Reasons That Pay Has Lagged Behind U.S. Job Growth
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/02/01/business/economy/wages-salaries-job-market.html?emc=edit_nn_20180202&nl=morning-briefing&nlid=58935408&te=1

Bitcoin, titcoin, ponzicoin: jokes and scams fuel a cryptocurrency gold rush 
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/feb/02/bitcoin-bananacoin-prodeum-cryptocurrencies?utm_source=esp&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=GU+Today+USA+-+Collections+2017&utm_term=262695&subid=24222148&CMP=GT_US_collection

JOBS
There's a Reason Democrats Don't Want Americans to Have Jobs
http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2018/02/01/theres-reason-democrats-dont-want-americans-to-have-jobs.html

ECOLOGY
It’s Time to Raise the Reefs 
https://www.ecowatch.com/its-time-to-raise-the-reefs-2528897812.html?utm_source=EcoWatch+List&utm_campaign=9ef44ac95d-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_49c7d43dc9-9ef44ac95d-85328381

TECHNOLOGY
Thanks, SB ...


DEFENSE
White House Wants Pentagon to Offer More Options on North Korea
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/01/us/politics/white-house-pentagon-north-korea.html?emc=edit_nn_20180202&nl=morning-briefing&nlid=58935408&te=1

IMMIGRATION
Family furious that sanctuary ordinance didn’t prevent ICE arrest
http://www.gopusa.com/?p=38465?omhide=true

TERRORISM
Trinidad's jihadis: how tiny nation became Isis recruiting ground 
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/feb/02/trinidad-jihadis-isis-tobago-tariq-abdul-haqq?utm_source=esp&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=GU+Today+USA+-+Collections+2017&utm_term=262695&subid=24222148&CMP=GT_US_collection

RUSSIAGATE
The Big Flaw in the Memo
http://www.nationalreview.com/article/456063/nunes-memo-big-flaw-confirms-new-york-times-story?utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=NR%20Daily%20Saturday%202018-02-03&utm_term=NR5PM%20Actives

POLITICS
That upcoming Democratic rout? Suddenly, it's looking far less certain 
http://www.jewishworldreview.com/0218/bump020218.php3

-- 
"Few men are willing to brave the disapproval of their fellows, the censure of their colleagues,
the wrath of their society. Moral courage is a rarer commodity than bravery in battle or great
intelligence. Yet it is the one essential, vital quality of those who seek to change a world which
yields most painfully to change."
          - Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961), A Farewell to Arms, 1929