PLATT - MISC News

GENERAL INTEREST
What to Pack in Your New York City Survival Kit
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/18/nyregion/new-york-city-survival-kit.html?emc=edit_nn_20180521&nl=morning-briefing&nlid=5893540820180521&te=1

Are Americans Too Attached to Their Pets?
https://www.nationalreview.com/2018/05/americans-pets-too-attached/?utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=NR%20Daily%20Monday%20through%20Friday%202018-05-21&utm_term=NR5PM%20Actives

HEALTH
Graphene 'stimulation' could selectively kill off cancer cells
https://www.engadget.com/2018/05/21/graphene-stimulation-could-selectively-kill-off-cancer-cells/

PROGRESSIVES RUNNING AMOK
Oh, Dear God -- Feminist Warns of 'Conservative Appropriation'
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/timothymeads/2018/05/20/oh-dear-god--feminists-warns-of-conservative-appropriation-n2482527?utm_source=thdaily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl&newsletterad=

Playing the Black Card
https://www.prageru.com/videos/playing-black-card

BUSINESS
Smug Seattle to mom and pop landlords: Criminals are welcome! Your rights not so much
http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2018/05/21/smug-seattle-to-mom-and-pop-landlords-criminals-are-welcome-your-rights-not-so-much.html

Trump signs repeal of auto-loan policy that targeted racial bias
http://thehill.com/policy/finance/388636-trump-signs-repeal-of-auto-loan-policy-targeting-racial-bias?rnd=1526925396?userid=288549

SCIENCE
Mathematicians Disprove Conjecture Made to Save Black Holes
https://www.quantamagazine.org/mathematicians-disprove-conjecture-made-to-save-black-holes-20180517/

DEMOGRAPHICS
US Fertility Rates Have Plummeted Into Uncharted Territory, And Nobody Knows Why (I would surely give second thought to bringing a child into today's effed up world. I am truly concerned for my grandkids.)
https://www.sciencealert.com/us-birth-rate-hits-record-low-fertility-plummets-uncharted-territory-cdc-decline?utm_source=ScienceAlert+-+Daily+Email+Updates&utm_campaign=26701f4ed7-MAILCHIMP_EMAIL_CAMPAIGN&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_fe5632fb09-26701f4ed7-365889541

America's dying whites: Caucasian death rate now outstrips the birth rate in a third of states
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3984874/More-whites-die-born-states-New-research-reveals-changing-demographics-amidst-soaring-Caucasian-death-rates.html

MELITTOLOGY
How to Build a Native Bee Hotel
https://www.ecowatch.com/native-bee-hotel-2569426624.html?utm_source=EcoWatch+List&utm_campaign=4b0bf34fdc-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_49c7d43dc9-4b0bf34fdc-85328381

TECHNOLOGY
A Clever Fix to the Biggest Climate Problem
https://www.ecowatch.com/phononic-fridge-2569712764.html?utm_source=EcoWatch+List&utm_campaign=4b0bf34fdc-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_49c7d43dc9-4b0bf34fdc-85328381

CYBER SECURITY
Banks Adopt Military-Style Tactics to Fight Cybercrime
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/20/business/banks-cyber-security-military.html?emc=edit_nn_20180521&nl=morning-briefing&nlid=5893540820180521&te=1

Millions of iPhone Users Are Suing Google for Collecting Their Personal Data
http://start.att.net/news/read/article/fortune-millions_of_iphone_users_are_suing_google_for_coll-rtime/category/finance

DEFENSE
Russia, China Would Destroy U.S. Command Aircraft on 'Day 1' of War, Air Force Warns
http://www.newsweek.com/russia-china-would-destroy-us-command-aircraft-day-1-war-air-force-warns-937013?utm_source=yahoo&utm_medium=yahoo_news&utm_campaign=rss&utm_content=937013

The US Needs A ‘Coast Guard’ For Space: Semper Paratus Exteriores Spatium
https://breakingdefense.com/2018/05/the-us-needs-a-coast-guard-for-space-semper-paratus-exteriores-spatium/

LAW ENFORCEMENT
Truck's fuel tank hid $90M worth of liquid meth; 2 men arrested
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2018/05/20/trucks-fuel-tank-hid-90m-worth-liquid-meth-2-men-arrested.html

Wine Ponzi Scheme
https://www.fbi.gov/news/stories/wine-ponzi-scheme

MEDIA
The Media See Only One Collusion Story
https://www.nationalreview.com/2018/05/media-coverage-trump-russia-collusion-story-ignores-doj-fbi-hillary-collusion/

IRAN
Pompeo: U.S. to Implement ‘Strongest Sanctions in History’ Against Iran
https://www.nationalreview.com/news/mike-pompeo-iran-strongest-sanctions-us-history-coming/

NORK
With North Korea, This Time Is Different
https://www.nationalreview.com/2018/05/north-korean-negotiations-success-is-possible/

ELECTIONGATE
Suspected FBI informant in Trump campaign reportedly sought senior role in administration
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2018/may/21/stefan-halper-suspected-fbi-informant-trump-campai/?utm_source=Boomtrain&utm_medium=manual&utm_campaign=20180326&utm_term=newsalert&utm_content=newsalert

DOJ, Trump reach deal on expanded Russia review
http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/388676-doj-agrees-to-probe-tactics-fbi-used-with-trump-campaign?rnd=1526925396?userid=288549

Mark Penn turns on Clintons, denounces Mueller probe as ‘deep-state’ quasi-coup
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2018/may/21/mark-penn-turns-clintons-denounces-robert-mueller-/?utm_source=Boomtrain&utm_medium=manual&utm_campaign=20180326&utm_term=newsalert&utm_content=newsalert

SCOTUS
Kennedy retirement rumors shift into overdrive
http://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/388413-kennedy-retirement-rumors-shift-into-overdrive?userid=288549

POLITICS
Don Blankenship announces spoiler’s bid in West Virginia Senate race
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2018/may/21/don-blankenship-announces-spoilers-bid-west-virgin/?utm_source=Boomtrain&utm_medium=manual&utm_campaign=20180326&utm_term=newsalert&utm_content=newsalert

Liberal Lies And Slanders Are A Slippery Slope To Trouble
https://townhall.com/columnists/kurtschlichter/2018/05/21/liberal-lies-and-slanders-are-a-slippery-slope-to-trouble-n2482631

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"But there is no turning time, inexorably it moves from under you; what you were
yesterday is fixed for always, making its mark on what you are today, what you will
be tomorrow"
          -  From "The Horizontal Man" by Helen Eustis