PLATT - MISC News

GENERAL INTEREST
Why NASA's next rockets might say Budweiser on the side
http://www.jewishworldreview.com/0918/nasa_commercialized.php3

A National Park Is Airlifting Hundreds of Mountain Goats That Have Gone Crazy for Human Pee
https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/zm5zz8/a-national-park-is-airlifting-hundreds-of-mountain-goats-crazy-for-human-pee

BUSINESS
Elon Musk ‘rolling the dice’ and buying time by turning down SEC settlement
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/elon-musk-rolling-the-dice-and-buying-time-by-turning-down-sec-settlement-2018-09-28

US Exports Plunge And So Do GDP Forecasts
https://finance.townhall.com/columnists/charlespayne/2018/09/28/us-exports-plunge-and-so-do-gdp-forecasts-n2523559?utm_source=thdaily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl&newsletterad=&bcid=3cb4e56ddeac8885c78e874bb1d8f1a4&recip=27077809

SCIENCE
Rooting Out Scientific Corruption
https://townhall.com/columnists/pauldriessen/2018/09/29/rooting-out-scientific-corruption-n2523693?utm_source=thdaily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl&newsletterad=&bcid=3cb4e56ddeac8885c78e874bb1d8f1a4&recip=27077809

CYBER SECURITY
11-year-old security flaw in vote scanner still isn’t fixed
https://nypost.com/2018/09/28/11-year-old-security-flaw-in-vote-scanner-still-isnt-fixed/?utm_campaign=iosapp&utm_source=mail_app

Change your Facebook password today
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/why-you-should-immediately-change-your-facebook-password-2018-09-28

If Facebook logged you out, your account was likely accessed
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/if-facebook-logged-you-out-your-data-was-likely-breached-2018-09-28

SOCIAL MEDIA
The dark reason that so many millennials are miserable and broke
https://moneyish.com/ish/the-dark-reason-so-many-millennials-are-miserable-and-broke/

The Narrowing of the Elite: Part Two
https://www.nationalreview.com/2018/09/the-narrowing-of-the-elite-part-two/?utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=NR%20Daily%20Saturday%202018-09-29&utm_term=NR5PM%20Actives

SCOTUS
Kavanaugh pal Mark Judge says he’s willing to cooperate with FBI probe
https://nypost.com/2018/09/28/kavanaugh-pal-mark-judge-says-hes-willing-to-cooperate-with-fbi-probe/?utm_campaign=iosapp&utm_source=mail_app

How the F.B.I. Will Investigate the Kavanaugh Accusations
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/28/us/politics/kavanauagh-fbi-background-check.html?action=click&module=Spotlight&pgtype=Homepage

Why the Brett Kavanaugh Smear?
https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2018/09/why-the-brett-kavanaugh-smear.php

The Real Reason Why Democrats Want An FBI Investigation Into Brett Kavanaugh
https://www.dailywire.com/news/36468/walsh-real-reason-why-democrats-want-fbi-matt-walsh?utm_source=cnemail&utm_medium=email&utm_content=092918-news&utm_campaign=position1

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“Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.”
           - C. S. Lewis

PLATT - MISC News

GENERAL INTEREST
The Week in Good News: A Medical Breakthrough, a Sound Journey, Robyn
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/27/briefing/week-in-good-news-mitraclip-robyn.html?emc=edit_nn_20180928&nl=morning-briefing&nlid=5893540820180928&te=1

Kindergartner empties piggy bank to pay for classmates' milk
https://www.cbsnews.com/amp/news/kindergartner-empties-piggy-bank-to-pay-for-classmates-milk/

Texas artist sues Val Kilmer over tumbleweed sculpture
https://pagesix.com/2018/09/28/texas-artist-sues-val-kilmer-over-tumbleweed-sculpture/?utm_campaign=iosapp&utm_source=mail_app

Text a Retailer and You Could Get Back Money and Time
https://www.nerdwallet.com/blog/finance/retail-store-savings-text-messaging/?utm_campaign=ct_prod&utm_source=syndication&utm_medium=wire&utm_term=anne-stanleymarketwatch-com&utm_content=549284

Tidal Bore Creates Spectacular Show Along River in China
https://weather.com/news/trending/video/tidal-bore-creates-spectacular-show-along-river-in-china?pl=pl-the-latest

News Quiz: Test Your Knowledge of the Week’s Headlines (8 out of 11)
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/09/28/briefing/28weeklynewsquiz.html?emc=edit_nn_20180928&nl=morning-briefing&nlid=5893540820180928&te=1

MARKET
We’re ‘only a few ticks away’ from reaching ‘DotCon stupidity,’ warns trader
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/were-only-a-few-ticks-away-from-reaching-dotcon-stupidity-warns-trader-2018-09-27

Why the Correction Vanished and the Bull Is Charging
https://www.zacks.com/stock/news/324359/why-the-correction-vanished-and-the-bull-is-charging

BUSINESS
Congress Uneasy as Trump Moves to Revise Nafta Without Canada
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/27/us/politics/nafta-congress.html?emc=edit_nn_20180928&nl=morning-briefing&nlid=5893540820180928&te=1

CLIMATE CHANGE
Taller Arctic Plants Could Speed Dangerous Warming Feedback Loop 
https://www.ecowatch.com/arctic-plant-growth-climate-change-2608352963.html?utm_source=EcoWatch+List&utm_campaign=436fb99c63-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_49c7d43dc9-436fb99c63-85328381

ORNITHOLOGY
The World's Largest Bird Weighed as Much as a Giraffe 
https://www.ecowatch.com/worlds-largest-bird-2608344057.html?utm_source=EcoWatch+List&utm_campaign=436fb99c63-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_49c7d43dc9-436fb99c63-85328381

TECHNOLOGY
Killer robots are on the way, and they’re a threat to humanity 
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/killer-robots-are-on-the-way-and-theyre-a-threat-to-humanity-2018-09-27

IRAN
Netanyahu reveals new 'secret' Iran nuclear site
http://www.foxnews.com/world/2018/09/27/netanyahu-reveals-new-secret-iran-nuclear-site.html

NKOR
Pompeo Hails Talks With North Korea but Says Sanctions Must Continue
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/27/world/asia/mike-pompeo-north-korea.html?emc=edit_nn_20180928&nl=morning-briefing&nlid=5893540820180928&te=1

SCOTUS
Kavanaugh’s confirmation odds jump, after he delivers full-throated defense of sexual-assault allegations
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/kavanaughs-confirmation-odds-jump-as-he-delivers-full-throated-defense-of-sexual-assault-allegations-2018-09-27?siteid=yhoof2&yptr=yahoo

Ralphing, fart jokes, and the FFFFF-word: Sen. Whitehouse's star turn at Kavanaugh hearing
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/columnists/byron-york-ralphing-fart-jokes-and-the-fffff-word-sen-whitehouses-star-turn-at-kavanaugh-hearing?utm_source=Examiner%20Today_09/28/2018&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=WEX_Examiner%20Today

Sen. Joe Donnelly Is a 'No' on Kavanaugh
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/laurettabrown/2018/09/28/sen-joe-donnelly-is-a-no-on-kavanaugh-n2523589?utm_source=thdailypm&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl_pm&newsletterad=&bcid=3cb4e56ddeac8885c78e874bb1d8f1a4&recip=27077809

Republican Leaders Have Reached an Accord With the Dems
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/cortneyobrien/2018/09/28/sen-kennedy-weve-reached-an-accord-with-the-dems-n2523674?utm_source=thdailypm&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl_pm&newsletterad=&bcid=3cb4e56ddeac8885c78e874bb1d8f1a4&recip=27077809

Trump orders new FBI investigation into Kavanaugh after Senate request
https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/409031-trump-to-order-new-fbi-investigation-into-kavanaugh-after-senate

TRUMPGATE
GOP Leadership to Interview Rosenstein in Private Hearing 
https://www.nationalreview.com/news/gop-leadership-to-interview-rosenstein-in-private-hearing/

POLITICS    
Bloomberg to spend $100 million in effort to flip the House
https://nypost.com/2018/09/27/bloomberg-to-spend-100-million-in-effort-to-flip-the-house/?utm_campaign=iosapp&utm_source=mail_app

I’m A Latino Democrat, But Thanks To The Kavanaugh Circus I’m Voting Republican In The Midterms
http://thefederalist.com/2018/09/28/im-latino-democrat-thanks-kavanaugh-circus-im-voting-republican-midterms/

The Rage of the Left
https://patriotpost.us/articles/58532-the-rage-of-the-left

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“Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.”
           - C. S. Lewis

EXTRA NOTE:

 Vietnam Pilots - Why so many shot down....
















 





        































"The Secret War and Other Conflicts" (Published 2014 by GENERAL PETE PIOTROWSKI ISBN 978-1-4931-6187-4 (Hardcover)

Following is a quote of much interest, from pages 246/247:

"Nearly twenty years later, former Secretary of State Dean Rusk being interviewed by Peter Arnett on a CBC documentary called "The Ten Thousand Day War".

Mr Arnett asked, "It has been rumored that the United States provided the North Vietnamese government the names of the targets that would be bombed the following day.




Is there any truth to that allegation?"

To everyone's astonishment and absolute disgust, the former Secretary responded,



"Yes. We didn't want to harm the North Vietnamese people, so we passed the targets to the Swiss embassy in Washington with instructions to pass them to the NVN government through their embassy in Hanoi."



As we watched in horror, Secretary Rusk went on to say, "All we wanted to do is demonstrate to the North Vietnamese leadership that we could strike targets at will, but we didn't want to kill innocent people. By giving the North Vietnamese advanced warning of the targets to be attacked, we thought they would tell the workers to stay home."

No wonder all the targets were so heavily defended day after day!



The NVN obviously moved as many guns as they could overnight to better defend each target they knew was going to be attacked.



Clearly, many brave American Air Force and Navy fliers died or spent years in NVN prison camps as a direct result of being intentionally betrayed by Secretary Rusk and Secretary McNamara, and perhaps, President Johnson himself.

I cannot think of a more duplicitous and treacherous act of American government officials.



Dean Rusk served as Secretary of State from January 21, 1961, through to January 20, 1969, under President John F.Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson.

Mr. Peter Arnett opined that “this would be a treasonous act by anyone else.” A very sad revelation.

PLATT - MISC News

GENERAL INTEREST
bluebird of bitterness
https://bluebirdofbitterness.com/page/3/

Five Packing Tips for the Traveling Couple
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/20/travel/packing-tips-for-couples.html?emc=edit_nn_20180927&nl=morning-briefing&nlid=5893540820180927&te=1

Colorado woman uncovers nearly 3-carat diamond at Arkansas state park, in ‘find of a lifetime’
https://start.att.net/news/read/article/fox_news-colorado_woman_uncovers_nearly_3carat_diamond_at_a-rfoxnews/category/news

Watch Florida man try to break free from repo man's tow truck
https://www.autoblog.com/2018/09/27/video-florida-man-tow-truck/?yptr=yahoo

HEALTH
The Flu Killed More Americans Last Winter Than It Has in Decades
https://gizmodo.com/the-flu-killed-more-americans-last-winter-than-it-has-i-1829373936

Vet who got his hand trapped in sausage-making machine reveals he cut off his own arm with a butcher's knife to escape
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6210531/Man-lost-hand-sausage-making-ordeal-cut-arm.html

PROGRESSIVES RUNNING AMOK
That ubiquitous ‘distracted boyfriend’ meme of the year? Yes, it’s sexist, says Swedish ad group
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/that-ubiquitous-distracted-boyfriend-meme-of-the-year-yes-its-sexist-says-swedish-ad-group-2018-09-26

ENVIRONMENT
Trump Repeals Rule Meant to Prevent Oil-Carrying 'Bomb Trains' From Derailing and Exploding
https://www.ecowatch.com/trump-oil-tanker-rule-repealed-2608110626.html?utm_source=EcoWatch+List&utm_campaign=b19eb75e32-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_49c7d43dc9-b19eb75e32-85328381

Study: Humans Causing Antarctic Warming
https://weather.com/science/environment/video/study-humans-causing-antarctic-warming?pl=pl-the-latest

WEATHER
Should We Brace for Severe Winters Ahead?
https://survivalblog.com/brace-severe-winters-ahead/

TECHNOLOGY
How Zinc Batteries Could Change Energy Storage
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/26/business/energy-environment/zinc-battery-explain.html?emc=edit_nn_20180927&nl=morning-briefing&nlid=5893540820180927&te=1

TERRORISM
Man Arrested Near Los Angeles With Two Active IEDs
https://pjmedia.com/homeland-security/man-arrested-near-los-angeles-with-two-active-ieds/

UNION RUNNING AMOK
Where can you get paid $466K a year to wash trucks? Special deals, union clout at N.J. port
https://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2018/06/money_for_nothing_working_the_docks_sometimes_mean.html?utm_source=social&utm_medium=facebook&utm_campaign=njcom_native

SCOTUS
Senate examining additional potential allegations of sexual misconduct against Kavanaugh
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/senate-examining-fourth-potential-allegation-of-sexual-misconduct-against-kavanaugh?utm_source=Examiner%20Today_09/27/2018&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=WEX_Examiner%20Today

POLITICS
Five takeaways on Kavanaugh and Ford’s testimony
https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/408876-five-takeaways-on-kavanaugh-and-fords-testimony?rnd=1538094474

A Rotten Elite
http://thezman.com/wordpress/?p=15150

Is There A Decent Democrat Left In America?
https://townhall.com/columnists/derekhunter/2018/09/27/is-there-a-decent-democrat-left-in-america-n2522869?utm_source=thdaily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl&newsletterad=&bcid=3cb4e56ddeac8885c78e874bb1d8f1a4&recip=27077809

The Truths Behind Our Current Political Turmoil
https://www.nationalreview.com/2018/09/political-turmoil-media-bias-trump-presidency/

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“Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.”
           - C. S. Lewis

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GENERAL INTEREST
A sonic tour around the world
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/09/21/magazine/voyages-travel-sounds-from-the-world.html?emc=edit_nn_20180924&nl=morning-briefing&nlid=5893540820180924&te=1

How Your Personality Type Could Influence Your Food Choices 
https://www.ecowatch.com/how-your-personality-type-could-influence-your-food-choices-2606814843.html?utm_source=EcoWatch+List&utm_campaign=17945923b5-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_49c7d43dc9-17945923b5-85328381

NIMBY Me This, YIMBY Me That
https://arcdigital.media/nimby-me-this-yimby-me-that-a395e63bf39a

Crack in beam shuts down San Francisco's new $2B terminal (... next door to the sinking condo ... )
https://start.att.net/news/read/article/the_associated_press-crack_in_beam_shuts_down_san_franciscos_new_2b_ter-ap/category/news

Arizona Deputy Uses Taser Gun to Escape Big Black Cow Attacking Him
https://www.yahoo.com/news/arizona-deputy-uses-taser-gun-224237067.html

PHYSICAL HEALTH
Tiny Device Is a ‘Huge Advance’ for Treatment of Severe Heart Failure
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/23/health/heart-failure-valve-repair-microclip.html?emc=edit_nn_20180924&nl=morning-briefing&nlid=5893540820180924&te=1

MENTAL HEALTH
#WhyIDidntReport: Survivors of Sexual Assault Share Their Stories After Trump Tweet
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/23/us/why-i-didnt-report-assault-stories.html?emc=edit_nn_20180924&nl=morning-briefing&nlid=5893540820180924&te=1

PROGRESSIVES UNHINGED
We Are Living Nineteen Eighty-Four
https://www.nationalreview.com/2018/09/kavanaugh-nomination-battle-like-orwells-1984/

BUSINESS
EBay starts managing payments in first step of move away from PayPal
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/ebay-starts-managing-payments-in-first-step-of-move-away-from-paypal-2018-09-25?siteid=yhoof2&yptr=yahoo

WEATHER
Thanks, TM ... 


Wobbly Air France Plane Aborts Landing in Storm Ali
https://weather.com/news/weather/video/wobbly-air-france-plane-aborts-landing-in-storm-ali?pl=pl-the-latest

ENVIRONMENT
Oxygen Loss in Canada Linked to Climate Change
https://www.ecowatch.com/oxygen-loss-climate-change-canada-2607545970.html?utm_source=EcoWatch+List&utm_campaign=17945923b5-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_49c7d43dc9-17945923b5-85328381

NASA's New Space Laser to Measure Earth's Changing Ice 
https://www.ecowatch.com/nasa-space-laser-2607578536.html?utm_source=EcoWatch+List&utm_campaign=17945923b5-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_49c7d43dc9-17945923b5-85328381

SCIENCE
Science
https://www.nytimes.com/section/science?emc=edit_nn_20180925&nl=morning-briefing&nlid=5893540820180925&te=1

MELITTOLOGY
Common weed killer linked to bee deaths
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/09/180924174506.htm

PHYSICAL TECHNOLOGY
Pulsed engines provide high efficiency, output power, low fluctuations
https://arstechnica.com/science/2018/09/pulsed-engines-provide-high-efficiency-output-power-low-fluctuations/

After a decade of testing, propylene rocket fuel may be ready for prime time
https://arstechnica.com/science/2018/09/after-a-decade-of-testing-propylene-rocket-fuel-may-be-ready-for-prime-time/

NATIONAL SECURITY
CIA Director Gina Haspel vows efficiency, accountability of agency’s work
https://www.oann.com/cia-director-gina-haspel-vows-efficiency-accountability-of-agencys-work/

SCOTUS
Kavanaugh to Give Senate Calendars From 1982 to Back Up Denial
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/23/us/politics/kavanaugh-senate-calendar.html?emc=edit_nn_20180924&nl=morning-briefing&nlid=5893540820180924&te=1

Kavanaugh’s fate rests with Sen. Collins 
https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/408193-kavanaughs-fate-rests-with-sen-collins?userid=288549

Red-state Democrats haven't written off Kavanaugh
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/congress/red-state-democrats-havent-written-off-kavanaugh

GOP confidence grows on Kavanaugh
https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/408424-gop-confidence-grows-on-kavanaugh?userid=288549

Senate panel schedules Friday morning vote for Kavanaugh
https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/408402-senate-panel-schedules-friday-morning-vote-for-kavanaugh?userid=288549

Feinstein Has 'No Way of Knowing' if Ford Will Show After Committee Hires Outside Counsel
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/cortneyobrien/2018/09/25/senate-judiciary-hires-outside-counsel-for-questioning-n2522508?utm_source=thdailypm&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl_pm&newsletterad=&bcid=3cb4e56ddeac8885c78e874bb1d8f1a4&recip=27077809

Second Kavanaugh accuser refusing to talk to Congress
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/congress/gop-lawmaker-second-kavanaugh-accuser-refusing-to-talk-to-congress

10 Serious Problems With New Accusations Against Kavanaugh
https://www.dailywire.com/news/36229/10-serious-problems-new-accusations-against-ryan-saavedra?utm_source=sremail&utm_medium=email&utm_content=092518-textversion&utm_campaign=position1

Stormy Daniels’ lawyer says third Kavanaugh accuser is ready to come forward
https://nypost.com/2018/09/25/stormy-daniels-lawyer-says-third-kavanaugh-accuser-is-ready-to-come-forward/?utm_campaign=iosapp&utm_source=mail_app

Michael Avenatti Warns Trump, Kavanaugh: 'Be Very, Very Careful' About What You Do Next
https://www.yahoo.com/news/michael-avenatti-warns-trump-kavanaugh-073826240.html

Uh Oh, Did Creepy Porn Lawyer Avenatti Get Pranked By Internet Trolls On Kavanaugh Gang-Rape Ring Allegation?
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/mattvespa/2018/09/25/oh-my-god-did-porn-lawyer-avenatti-get-pranked-by-internet-trolls-on-kavanaugh-gangrape-ring-allegation-n2522495?utm_source=thdailypm&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl_pm&newsletterad=&bcid=3cb4e56ddeac8885c78e874bb1d8f1a4&recip=27077809

‘Holy WOW if this is true!’ Wait, is THIS why Michael Avenatti locked his Twitter account? 
https://twitchy.com/sarahd-313035/2018/09/25/holy-wow-if-this-is-true-wait-is-this-why-michael-avenatti-locked-his-twitter-account/

TRUMPGATE
Judge signals he may dismiss Stormy Daniels’ defamation suit against Trump
https://nypost.com/2018/09/24/judge-signals-he-may-dismiss-stormy-daniels-defamation-suit-against-trump/?utm_campaign=iosapp&utm_source=mail_app

POLITICS
Republican Party’s approval rating at its highest in 7 years
https://nypost.com/2018/09/25/republican-partys-approval-rating-its-highest-in-7-years/?utm_campaign=iosapp&utm_source=mail_app

-- 
“Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.”
           - C. S. Lewis