PLATT - MISC News

GENERAL INTEREST
The Week in Good News: A 99-Year-Old Baseball Usher, a Yacht Race, Spring Flowers
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/12/briefing/week-in-good-news-st-barts-yacht-race-flowers.html?emc=edit_nn_20180413&nl=morning-briefing&nlid=5893540820180413&te=1

Twisted Tale of Stolen Chagall Nears Ending
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/12/nyregion/twisted-tale-of-stolen-chagall-nears-ending.html?emc=edit_nn_20180413&nl=morning-briefing&nlid=5893540820180413&te=1

News Quiz: Test Your Knowledge of the Week’s Headlines (10 out of 11)
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/04/13/briefing/13weeklynewsquiz.html?emc=edit_nn_20180413&nl=morning-briefing&nlid=5893540820180413&te=1

• In Turkmenistan's capital, Ashgabat, drivers of black cars are facing high costs to repaint their cars white or silver after President Gurbanguly Berdymukhammedov banned black vehicles because he thinks the color white brings good luck. Police began seizing dark-colored vehicles in late December, and owners have to apply for permission to repaint and re-register them. The average wage in Ashgabat is about $300 a month (or 1,200 manats); one Turkman told Radio Free Europe that he was quoted 7,000 manats for a paint job, but was told that the price would rise within a week to 11,000 manats. "Even if I don't spend any money anywhere, I will be forced to hand over pretty much my entire annual salary just to repaint," the unnamed man said, adding that his black car had already been impounded. [Radio Free Europe, 1/8/2018] 

HEALTH
From Loneliness to Stress and Depression
http://www.freedomsback.com/from-lonliness-to-stress-and-depression/

This strange syndrome causes people to think their loved ones have been replaced by identical impostors
http://www.jewishworldreview.com/0418/capgras.php3

SPORTS
Are NFL scouts turned off by college quarterback’s family wealth?
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/are-nfl-scouts-turned-off-by-college-quarterbacks-family-wealth-2018-04-12

BUSINESS
The Zuckerberg Hearings Prove Government Shouldn’t Regulate Facebook [" ... if you’re constantly falling for ‘fake news,’ well, that’s a you problem, because the state can’t fix stupid.”]
https://www.nationalreview.com/2018/04/facebook-mark-zuckerberg-hearings-government-should-not-regulate/?utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=NR%20Daily%20Monday%20through%20Friday%202018-04-13&utm_term=NR5PM%20Actives

New Poll on Privacy Concerns May Signal Trouble for Facebook
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/williamvaillancourt/2018/04/13/untitled-n2470701?utm_source=thdailypm&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl_pm&newsletterad=

Survey: Roughly 1 In 10 Americans Say They Have Deleted Facebook
http://start.att.net/news/read/article/fortune-survey_roughly_1_in_10_americans_say_they_have_del-rtime/category/news

Tesla email reveals company’s effort to silence an alleged victim with cash
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/apr/12/tesla-media-strategy-discrimination-car-crash?utm_source=esp&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=GU+Today+USA+-+Collections+2017&utm_term=271298&subid=24222148&CMP=GT_US_collection

CLIMATE CHANGE
Climate Change Shifting Boundary Along 100th Meridian
https://weather.com/science/environment/video/100th-meridian-may-be-shifting-because-of-climate-change?pl=pl-the-latest

Climate Change Could Set Off Volcanoes 
https://www.ecowatch.com/climate-change-volcanoes-2559369589.html?utm_source=EcoWatch+List&utm_campaign=377c47ff5e-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_49c7d43dc9-377c47ff5e-85328381

Slow Motion Ocean: Why Are North Atlantic Currents Weakening?
https://www.ecowatch.com/atlantic-ocean-currents-weaken-amoc-2559304530.html?utm_source=EcoWatch+List&utm_campaign=377c47ff5e-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_49c7d43dc9-377c47ff5e-85328381

AUTOMOTIVE
Weight Doesn’t Equal Safety in Cars, Trucks
https://www.wsj.com/article_email/weight-doesnt-equal-safety-in-cars-trucks-1523556228-lMyQjAxMTE4NDE0MzMxODMyWj/

TECHNOLOGY
Google Keeps a Record of Your ENTIRE Search History. Here’s How to Delete It in 4 Easy Steps
https://www.msn.com/en-us/video/watch/google-keeps-a-record-of-your-entire-search-history-here%e2%80%99s-how-to-delete-it-in-4-easy-steps/vp-AAvQUMM

DOJ
Inspector General Report Torches Andrew McCabe For Being a Serial Liar
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/katiepavlich/2018/04/13/breaking-inspector-general-report-torches-andrew-mccane-n2470734?utm_source=thdailypm&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl_pm&newsletterad=

DOJ tinkers with immigration courts to speed deportations
https://www.yahoo.com/news/doj-tinkers-immigration-courts-speed-deportations-090046071.html

MIDDLE EAST
Trump: US, allies strike Syria to stop chemical weapons
https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-plans-talk-allies-syria-strike-decision-045056593--politics.html

What it's like to feel the shock of airstrikes
https://www.nytimes.com/video/world/middleeast/100000005843862/endure-aerial-attack-syria.html

Nikki Haley to Russian Ambassador on Weapons Attack Claim: 'In Awe' You Say that 'with A Straight Face'
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/laurettabrown/2018/04/13/nikki-haley-to-russian-ambassador-at-un-on-weapons-attack-claim-in-aweyou-said-that-with-a-straight-face-n2470654?utm_source=thdailypm&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl_pm&newsletterad=

SOUTH AFRICA
'They killed him in cold blood': South African farmer's pregnant wife reveals how a thug shot her husband dead in front of her and their children 'for no reason' - as Australia is urged to bring in 10,000 people under threat
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5610567/South-African-farmers-wife-reveals-thug-shot-husband-dead-children.html

RUSSIAGATE
House Democrats seek 20 to 30 more witnesses in Russia probe, but GOP resists
https://www.yahoo.com/news/house-democrats-seek-20-30-witnesses-russia-probe-gop-resists-100034138.html

Ex-top CIA official: Brennan is doing Putin's 'bidding' by speculating about Trump blackmail
https://www.yahoo.com/news/ex-top-cia-official-brennan-putins-bidding-speculating-trump-blackmail-125035334.html

TRUMPGATE
Digging: For buried treasure --- and against Trump 
http://www.jewishworldreview.com/cols/crosby041318.php3

FBI agents may have found tapes of Michael Cohen's conversations with Trump during raid: Report 
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/fbi-agents-may-have-found-tapes-of-michael-cohens-conversations-with-trump-during-raid-report

Ex-FEC chief lawyer: Trump attorney may have made a 'colossal screwup' with Stormy Daniels statement
https://www.yahoo.com/news/ex-fec-chief-lawyer-trump-attorney-may-made-colossal-screwup-stormy-daniels-statement-135418767.html

Former FEC Chairman To Mark Levin: Stormy Daniels Money Cannot Be In Kind Campaign Contribution
https://www.dailywire.com/news/29365/former-fec-chairman-mark-levin-stormy-daniels-jacob-airey?utm_medium=email&utm_content=041318-news&utm_campaign=position1

Payment stories involving Trump and his lawyer/fixer generate great headlines, ratings. But here's why, even if true, nothing will likely come of them
http://www.jewishworldreview.com/0418/bump041318.php3

-- "Political language - and with variations this is true of all political parties, from Conservatives to Anarchists - is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind." - George Orwell, "Politics and the English Language", 1946