PLATT - MISC News

GENERAL INTEREST
Elon Musk is a total fraud
https://nypost.com/2018/07/21/elon-musk-is-a-total-fraud/?utm_campaign=iosapp&utm_source=mail_app

The price tag on this ‘seductive’ Port works out to $212 an ounce
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/the-price-tag-on-this-seductive-port-works-out-to-212-an-ounce-2018-07-20

Steam-pipe explosion cleanup turning out to be ‘helluva big job’
https://nypost.com/2018/07/20/steam-pipe-explosion-cleanup-turning-out-to-be-helluva-big-job/?utm_campaign=iosapp&utm_source=mail_app

Build Your Own Cement Block Swimming Pool
https://www.farmshow.com/newsletter_articles/cement-block-pool.php

HEALTH
Some People Have All the Luck: Free Food for Life for Baby Born in Chik-Fil-A 
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/timothymeads/2018/07/20/some-people-have-all-the-luck-baby-born-in-chikfila-gets-free-nuggets-for-life-n2502311?utm_source=thdaily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl&newsletterad=

7 Reasons Why the Transgender Revolution Will Fail
https://townhall.com/columnists/michaelbrown/2018/07/20/7-reasons-why-the-transgender-revolution-will-fail-n2502251?utm_source=thdaily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl&newsletterad=

FINANCIAL
130,000 veterans are about to get a hefty tax refund 
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/130000-veterans-are-about-to-get-a-hefty-refund-from-the-department-of-defense-2018-07-20

There are millions of Americans like that guy who walked 20 miles to work
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/there-are-millions-of-americans-like-that-guy-who-walked-20-miles-to-work-2018-07-20

AGRICULTURE
World's Largest Round Barn?
https://www.farmshow.com/newsletter_articles/big-barns.php

Turning Luddite Eco-Imperialism into a Virtue
https://townhall.com/columnists/pauldriessen/2018/07/21/turning-luddite-ecoimperialism-into-a-virtue-n2502410?utm_source=thdaily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl&newsletterad=

You Need to Be Paying Attention To GMO Grass
https://modernfarmer.com/2018/07/you-need-to-be-paying-attention-to-gmo-grass/

ENVIRONMENT
Climate Change May Stimulate the Chesapeake’s Blue Crab Population 
https://www.ecowatch.com/chesapeakes-blue-crabs-climate-change-2588148027.html?utm_source=EcoWatch+List&utm_campaign=e89a427b37-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_49c7d43dc9-e89a427b37-85328381

TECHNOLOGY
Google Translate's AI Is Rendering Gibberish Into Spooky Religious Prophecies
https://start.att.net/news/read/article/fortune-google_translates_ai_is_rendering_gibberish_into_s-rtime/category/finance

FOREIGN POLICY
Why the US must defend ‘faraway’ countries like Montenegro
https://nypost.com/2018/07/20/why-the-us-must-defend-faraway-countries-like-montenegro/?utm_campaign=iosapp&utm_source=mail_app

NATIONAL SECURITY
Congress won't block Trump's deal to save Chinese telecom giant ZTE
http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/398086-defense-bill-wont-block-trumps-zte-deal

Going forward, both parties should commit to a ‘Cyber Election Pledge’
http://thehill.com/opinion/cybersecurity/397974-going-forward-both-parties-should-commit-to-a-cyber-election-pledge

SCOTUS
Sunk judicial pick spills over into Supreme Court fight
http://thehill.com/blogs/floor-action/senate/398143-sunk-judicial-pick-spills-over-into-supreme-court-fight

The problem of Kavanaugh’s lengthy paper trail
https://apnews.com/fed6b6f0ebdb448b9ee4237c6e6737f4/The-problem-of-Kavanaugh's-lengthy-paper-trail

RUSSIAGATE
What’s the best way to get back at Russian hackers? Lawsuits
https://nypost.com/2018/07/19/whats-the-best-way-to-get-back-at-russian-hackers-lawsuits/?utm_campaign=iosapp&utm_source=mail_app

Peter Strzok's "insurance policy" is his wife, SEC Director Melissa Hodgman, who has blocked the FBI's probe of the Clinton Foundation for 21 months and counting
https://brassballs.blog/home/peter-strzoks-insurance-policy-is-his-wife-sec-director-melissa-hodgman-who-has-blocked-the-fbis-investigation-of-the-clinton-foundation-for-21-months-and-counting

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"When a nation goes down, or a society perishes, one condition may always be found;
they forgot where they came from. They lost sight of what had brought them along."
           - Carl Sandburg