PLATT - MISC News

GENERAL INTEREST
Thought your January blues were bad? Hilarious online gallery reveals epic fails that will make you feel a LOT better about how your day is going
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-6557327/Hilarious-online-gallery-displays-epic-fails-make-feel-better-mistakes.html

HEALTH CARE
Venezuela crisis takes deadly toll on buckling health system 
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/jan/06/venezuela-health-system-crisis-nicolas-maduro?utm_term=RWRpdG9yaWFsX0d1YXJkaWFuVG9kYXlVUy0xOTAxMDY%3D&utm_source=esp&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=GuardianTodayUS&CMP=GTUS_email

SPORTS
Star names say no to Super Bowl show in support of police brutality protest 
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2019/jan/06/super-bowl-half-time-show-rihanna-cardi-b-colin-kaepernick?utm_term=RWRpdG9yaWFsX0d1YXJkaWFuVG9kYXlVUy0xOTAxMDY%3D&utm_source=esp&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=GuardianTodayUS&CMP=GTUS_email

WEATHER
Central Europe Gets Buried in Snow
https://weather.com/storms/winter/video/central-europe-gets-buried-in-snow?pl=pl-the-latest

CLIMATE CHANGE
The 'Little Ice Age' hundreds of years ago is STILL cooling the bottom of Pacific, researchers find
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-6558285/Little-Ice-Age-hundreds-years-ago-cooling-bottom-Pacific-researchers-find.html

The Lessons of ‘Dieselgate’
See the Wall Street Journal article, below.

TEUTHOLOGY
Octopus Escapes from a Jar
http://www.firstlook.news/2019/01/04/octopus-escapes-from-a-jar/

TECHNOLOGY
'What happens on your iPhone, stays on your iPhone': Apple puts up billboard ad taking a dig at the privacy issues of its competitors near Las Vegas Consumer Electronics Show
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6562167/Apple-puts-billboard-ad-near-Consumer-Electronics-center-Las-Vegas.html

NATIONAL SECURITY
Trump's idea to declare national emergency raises legality questions
https://thehill.com/homenews/sunday-talk-shows/424069-lawmakers-shoot-down-trump-idea-to-declare-a-national-emergency-to?userid=288549

Border lawmakers press Trump to beef up existing security
https://thehill.com/latino/423974-border-lawmakers-press-trump-to-beef-up-existing-security?userid=288549

LAW AND ORDER
Jailing the Wrong Man: Mug Shot Searches Persist in New York, Despite Serious Risks
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/05/nyregion/nypd-mug-shots-false-identification.html

MEDIA BIAS
TV special glosses over the truth behind JFK Jr.’s doomed flight
https://nypost.com/2019/01/05/tv-special-glosses-over-the-truth-behind-jfk-jr-s-doomed-flight/?utm_campaign=iosapp&utm_source=mail_app

TRUMPGATE
History suggests Trump can fire Mueller without paying a price
https://nypost.com/2019/01/05/history-proves-trump-can-fire-mueller-without-paying-a-price/?utm_campaign=iosapp&utm_source=mail_app

Five things to know about the Trump Tower Moscow proposal
https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/423958-five-things-to-know-about-the-trump-tower-moscow-proposal

Democrats lay impeachment trap, but will the president step into it?
https://thehill.com/opinion/judiciary/423999-democrats-lay-impeachment-trap-but-will-the-president-step-into-it

What if Mueller is fired?
https://thehill.com/opinion/white-house/423764-what-if-mueller-is-fired

POLITICS
Here are the lawmakers who will forfeit their salaries during the shutdown
https://thehill.com/homenews/house/424020-here-are-the-lawmakers-who-will-forfeit-their-salaries-during-the-shutdown

Congress 2019: Why The Future May Be Female, But These Ideas Are Filled With Ignorance, Stupidity & Danger!
https://townhall.com/columnists/kevinmccullough/2019/01/06/congress-2019-why-the-future-may-be-female-but-these-ideas-are-filled-with-ignorance-stupidity--danger-n2538565?utm_source=thdaily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl&newsletterad=01/06/2019&bcid=3cb4e56ddeac8885c78e874bb1d8f1a4&recip=27077809

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"You must never confuse faith that you will prevail in the end – which you can never afford to
Lose – with the discipline to confront the most brutal facts of your current reality, whatever
they might be."
           - VAdm James Stockdale, USN (1923-2005)

FROM THE WALL STREET JOURNAL (without permission) FULL STORY AT THIS LINK

https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-lessons-of-dieselgate-11546644740?emailToken=48f735206f2306f76df650c7b261ccddvHxieop3njvlz9WZhiNI123nQ7s8DPS0Hdy253rzIIvYLcMsBZFnoE5C7Yz0xw5sjtQF6fVQ+0pRIN5x0uHNsA%3D%3D&reflink=article_email_share

The Lessons of ‘Dieselgate’

Insane amounts of political capital were spent trying to wring meaningless CO2 reductions from cars.

By

Holman W. Jenkins, Jr.

Jan. 4, 2019 6:32 p.m. ET

A worker on the production line at a Porsche factory in Leipzig, Germany, Dec. 13, 2018. Photo: matthias rietschel/Reuters

Angela Merkel had a bad 2018. Outsiders heard the word “migrants” during her party’s many electoral defeats. But a more urgent concern for millions of German voters was the fate of diesel cars they bought because they were told it was good for climate change.