PLATT - MISC News

GENERAL INTEREST
Man mauled to death by bear while taking selfie with it
https://nypost.com/2018/05/04/man-mauled-to-death-by-bear-while-taking-selfie/

Easier With Three (Unh ... whatever happened to "Two's company, three's a crowd"???)
https://slate.com/human-interest/2018/05/easier-with-three-work-life-and-polyamory.html

The WIRE: Your week in review
https://personalliberty.com/wire-week-review-20-92/

HEALTH
The New Science of Psychedelics
https://www.wsj.com/article_email/the-new-science-of-psychedelics-1525360091-lMyQjAxMTE4NDA1NTgwMjU5Wj/

FINANCE
CBO Projects $12.4 Trillion in Debt – And They’re Underselling It
https://townhall.com/columnists/andrewwilford/2018/05/05/cbo-projects-24-trillion-in-debt--and-theyre-underselling-it-n2477602?utm_source=thdaily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl&newsletterad=

CLIMATE CHANGE
3°C May Double Europe’s Drought Risk
https://www.ecowatch.com/europe-drought-2565838346.html?utm_source=EcoWatch+List&utm_campaign=56d307d138-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_49c7d43dc9-56d307d138-85328381

ENVIRONMENT
An Ocean Dead Zone the Size of Florida
https://weather.com/science/environment/video/an-ocean-dead-zone-the-size-of-florida?pl=pl-the-latest

World's Largest Greenhouse Reopens to Safeguard Earth's Rarest and Most Threatened Plants
https://www.ecowatch.com/endangered-plants-greenhouse-2565840027.html?utm_source=EcoWatch+List&utm_campaign=56d307d138-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_49c7d43dc9-56d307d138-85328381

The MacLehose Trail Is Hong Kong's Great Escape 
https://www.ecowatch.com/maclehose-trail-hong-kong-2563892563.html?utm_source=EcoWatch+List&utm_campaign=56d307d138-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_49c7d43dc9-56d307d138-85328381

CYBER SECURITY
Increasingly brazen North Korean hackers growing capable
http://thehill.com/policy/cybersecurity/386309-north-korean-hackers-growing-more-brazen-capable

FOREIGN POLICY
Kerry Trying To Undermine Trump On Iran Deal By Consulting With Foreign Leaders
https://www.dailywire.com/news/30277/kerry-trying-undermine-trump-iran-deal-consulting-hank-berrien?utm_medium=email&utm_content=050518-news&utm_campaign=position7

NATIONAL SECURITY
Revolution and Worse to Come
https://www.nationalreview.com/2018/04/trump-resistance-democratic-party-revolutionary-times/

LAW ENFORCEMENT
Grandfather Sticks Out His Leg to Trip Armed Robber, Ending Police Pursuit
https://www.yahoo.com/news/grandfather-sticks-leg-trip-armed-181552768.html

Dump truck driver runs into armed motorist in bizarre NC road rage duel
http://www.charlotteobserver.com/news/local/article210495839.html

MEDIA
The Media Is Killing the Democratic Party 
https://www.nationalreview.com/2018/05/media-hurting-democratic-party-covering-trump-legal-drama/?utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=NR%20Daily%20Saturday%202018-05-05&utm_term=NR5PM%20Actives

Political world braces for the next generation of fake news
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/political-world-braces-next-generation-fake-news-n871266

NORK
Korea May See Peace For The First Time in 65 Years Because of This Frightening Truth ( ... an interesting hypothesis ... )
https://www.cheatsheet.com/health-fitness/korea-may-see-peace-for-the-first-time-in-65-years-because-of-this-frightening-truth.html/?ref=YF&yptr=yahoo

TRUMPGATE
Why All the Secrecy? 
https://www.nationalreview.com/2018/05/mueller-probe-basis-for-criminal-investigation-should-be-revealed/?utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=NR%20Daily%20Saturday%202018-05-05&utm_term=NR5PM%20Actives

Americans Are Tiring of Mueller Witch Hunt
https://townhall.com/columnists/jeffcrouere/2018/05/05/americans-are-tiring-of-mueller-witch-hunt-n2477708?utm_source=thdaily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl&newsletterad=

POLITICS
Younger lawmakers ignite new push for term limits
http://thehill.com/homenews/house/386283-younger-lawmakers-ignite-new-push-for-term-limits?userid=288549

Given the State of Near-Hostilities in Our Political Culture, Is It Unthinkable That the Country May Split?
http://acecomments.mu.nu/?post=374970

-- 
"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