PLATT - MISC News

SAFETY
A Kitchen Warning
http://mausersandmuffins.blogspot.com/2018/04/a-kitchen-warning.html

Be Careful This Week
http://www.activeresponsetraining.net/be-careful-this-week

GENERAL INTEREST
New York City Sewage Held Up in Alabama Town Finally Taken Away
https://www.wsj.com/article_email/new-york-city-sewage-held-up-in-alabama-town-finally-taken-away-1524173499-lMyQjAxMTA4MDI3MDQyNDA5Wj/

Kangaroo Dies After Visitors At Chinese Zoo Hurl Rocks To Force Her To Jump
https://www.yahoo.com/news/kangaroo-dies-visitors-chinese-zoo-225537676.html

The WIRE: Your week in review
https://personalliberty.com/wire-week-review-20-90/

Thanks, TM ...
MANABOPA

HEALTH
The girl who couldn't stop coughing
http://www.jewishworldreview.com/0418/endless_cough.php3

FINANCE
This Congressional Shake-Up Is Big News for Social Security
https://www.fool.com/retirement/2018/04/21/this-congressional-shake-up-is-big-news-for-social.aspx

How Tony Podesta, a Washington Power Broker, Lost It All
https://www.wsj.com/article_email/how-tony-podesta-a-washington-power-broker-lost-it-all-1524065781-lMyQjAxMTA4ODIzMDcyNjAzWj/

BUSINESS
Why More Taxpayer Funding to Elon Musk’s Big F-ing Rocket Would Be a Big F-ing Mistake
https://townhall.com/columnists/beaurothschild/2018/04/21/why-more-taxpayer-funding-to-elon-musks-big-fing-rocket-would-be-a-big-fing-mistake-n2472534?utm_source=thdaily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl&newsletterad=

How to get rich quick in Silicon Valley
https://www.theguardian.com/news/2018/apr/17/get-rich-quick-silicon-valley-startup-billionaire-techie?utm_source=esp&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=The+Long+Read+-+Collections+2017&utm_term=272174&subid=20430811&CMP=longread_collection

Fake it till you make it: meet the wolves of Instagram
https://www.theguardian.com/news/2018/apr/19/wolves-of-instagram-jordan-belmont-social-media-traders?utm_source=esp&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=The+Long+Read+-+Collections+2017&utm_term=272174&subid=20430811&CMP=longread_collection

CLIMATE CHANGE
Climate Adaptation, Reparation and Restoration
https://townhall.com/columnists/pauldriessen/2018/04/21/climate-adaptation-reparation-and-restoration-n2473056?utm_source=thdaily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl&newsletterad=

What happened to winter? Vanishing ice convulses Alaskans' way of life
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/apr/21/alaska-climate-change-winter-way-of-life?utm_source=esp&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=GU+Today+USA+-+Collections+2017&utm_term=272230&subid=24222148&CMP=GT_US_collection

CYBER SECURITY
Palantir Knows Everything About You
https://www.bloomberg.com/features/2018-palantir-peter-thiel/

FOREIGN POLICY
11 senators are about to make a very BIG mistake
http://www.jewishworldreview.com/0418/thiessen042018.php3

DEFENSE
War Games: Army Deletes Bureaucracy To Get Sims Fast
https://breakingdefense.com/2018/04/war-games-army-deletes-bureaucracy-to-get-sims-fast/?utm_campaign=Raytheon%20Space%20Symposium%20&utm_source=hs_email&utm_medium=email&utm_content=62280379&_hsenc=p2ANqtz-9htMDBa2xCZsdeq0X8FBI29K53TrMGOQfgZ3fV2PoGqDIvYpmhL9i2RZ7JIHmOX1nQTv1g6U5iA7SMexGhrIOnuVZQjA&_hsmi=62280379

MEDIA
America is plagued by experts without expertise
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/apr/21/media-experts-without-expertise?utm_source=esp&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=GU+Today+USA+-+Collections+2017&utm_term=272230&subid=24222148&CMP=GT_US_collection

IMMIGRATION
Feds expose network that smuggled illegal immigrants from Syria to U.S.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2018/apr/18/feds-expose-network-smuggled-immigrants-syria/

How swimming lessons change the lives of refugee children
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/ng-interactive/2018/apr/21/great-lengths?utm_source=esp&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=GU+Today+USA+-+Collections+2017&utm_term=272230&subid=24222148&CMP=GT_US_collection

IRAN
Last Ditch Efforts by Iran Lobby to Save Nuclear Deal Wasted
https://townhall.com/columnists/jameslee/2018/04/21/last-ditch-efforts-by-iran-lobby-to-save-nuclear-deal-wasted-n2473018?utm_source=thdaily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl&newsletterad=

TRUMP
The Man Behind the President’s Tweets
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/16/magazine/dan-scavino-the-secretary-of-offense.html

TRUMPGATE
Trump lowers the temperature on Mueller probe
http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/384228-the-memo-trump-lowers-the-temperature-on-mueller-probe?userid=288549

POLITICS
Why has the Republican Congress given up on doing anything?
http://www.jewishworldreview.com/0418/lowry042018.php3

Marx predicted our present crisis – and points the way out
https://www.theguardian.com/news/2018/apr/20/yanis-varoufakis-marx-crisis-communist-manifesto?utm_source=esp&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=The+Long+Read+-+Collections+2017&utm_term=272174&subid=20430811&CMP=longread_collection

-- "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