PLATT - CURATED News

GENERAL INTEREST
Texas man enters abandoned home to smoke weed, finds tiger instead
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/texas-man-enters-abandoned-home-smoke-weed-finds-tiger-instead-n970411

Moment a UPS driver blocks path of ambulance on emergency call by refusing to move his van - and then threatens to SUE the man who filmed him
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6699413/UPS-driver-blocks-ambulance-delivering-packages.html

7 Mashed Potato Mistakes Everyone Makes
https://start.att.net/player/article/myrecipes-7_mashed_potato_mistakes_everyone_makes-vtime/category/lifestyle

HEALTH
Woman, 20, is left in a wheelchair for life after getting her nose pierced and suffering a bacterial infection
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6699721/Woman-20-left-wheelchair-life-getting-nose-pierced-suffering-bacterial-infection.html

EDUCATION
A Better School?
http://www.jewishworldreview.com/0219/stosse021319.php3

HUMOR
"STATE OF THE UNION" — A Bad Lip Reading
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=165&v=066WAeG5muE

The News in Zingers 
http://www.jewishworldreview.com/0219/hamilton021319.php3

thanks, TM ...


FINANCIAL
Senators propose legislation to end Congressional pensions
https://www.yahoo.com/finance/news/senators-announce-legislation-to-end-congressional-pensions-210006987.html

ENGINEERING
Fleets of low-cost energy generators could power MILLIONS of homes within decades, Scottish research suggests
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-6698009/Single-wave-energy-device-power-100-homes-experts-claim.html

ThrustSSC receives Engineering Heritage Award
https://www.hemmings.com/blog/2019/02/13/thrustssc-receives-engineering-heritage-award/


FOREIGN POLICY
U.S. Revives Secret Program to Sabotage Iranian Missiles and Rockets
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/13/us/politics/iran-missile-launch-failures.html?emc=edit_ne_20190213&module=inline&nl=evening-briefing&nlid=58935408_ne_20190213&te=1

NATIONAL SECURITY
Former Air Force Intelligence Agent Charged With Spying for Iran
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/13/world/middleeast/air-force-monica-elfriede-witt-iran.html?emc=edit_ne_20190213&module=inline&nl=evening-briefing&nlid=58935408_ne_20190213&te=1

Rudy Giuliani appears on stage with anti-Tehran group once branded terrorists
https://myzikk.com/2019/02/13/rudy-giuliani-appears-on-stage-with-anti-iran-group-once-branded-terrorists/

BORDER SECURITY
Migrants overwhelm New Mexico border post with thousands of illegal crossings
https://www.yahoo.com/news/migrants-overwhelm-mexico-border-post-234601178.html

LAW AND ORDER
New Emails Confirm FBI Tried To Work Deal With State Dept To Minimize Hillary Email Scandal
https://www.dailywire.com/news/43399/new-emails-confirm-fbi-tried-work-deal-state-dept-james-barrett

LAW AND THE COURTS
Asset Forfeiture: Lessons from Mississippi 
https://www.nationalreview.com/2019/02/asset-forfeiture-reform-mississippi-success-lessons/?utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=NR%20Daily%20Monday%20through%20Friday%202019-02-13&utm_term=NRDaily-Smart

BIG BROTHER
Human rights groups call on Apple and Google to review Saudi app that can track women
http://www.jewishworldreview.com/0219/saudi_app_tracks_women.php3

BEZOS
Suddenly, Bezos Is Media’s Hero
See the Wall Street Journal article, below.

POLITICS
Democrats Panic After McConnell Urges 'Green New Deal' Vote. They Get Mocked.
https://www.dailywire.com/news/43403/democrats-panic-after-mcconnell-urges-green-new-ryan-saavedra

Pelosi runs tight ship as more stormy waters await
https://thehill.com/homenews/house/429714-pelosi-runs-a-tight-ship-as-more-stormy-waters-await

2020 Dems eager to challenge tech giants
https://thehill.com/policy/technology/429722-2020-dems-eager-to-challenge-tech-giants

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FROM THE WALL STREET JOURNAL (without permission) (see link for full story)

https://www.wsj.com/articles/suddenly-bezos-is-medias-hero-11550015405?emailToken=dc1ab6c61aa7aa53d763afb81bbee2c8XitXPzRJieEUZXJxRzxt+/TTLkN/2B29PmnaJylBMOygoRIVDsDxc/4jb1K9ZuojX8q0oa//DiSUo/BBnOpb9g%3D%3D&reflink=article_email_share

Suddenly, Bezos Is Media’s Hero

Once more, the press manufactures a ‘narrative’ in advance of the facts.

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By

Holman W. Jenkins, Jr.

Feb. 12, 2019 6:50 p.m. ET

Amazon founder Jeff Bezos speaks in Oxen Hill, Md., Feb. 7. Photo: jim watson/Agence France-Presse/Getty Images

I set out to write a column three weeks ago about what Jeff Bezos’ divorce might mean for Amazon, but was pulled up short by an unanswered question. Was his new girlfriend, Lauren Sanchez, responsible for leaking the text messages and photos that found their way to the National Enquirer? Applying Occam’s razor, it was the likeliest explanation. If so, Mr. Bezos’ judgment about whom to trust might be a legitimate worry for investors. But since I had no evidence on this point and didn’t feel like speculating at Ms. Sanchez’s expense, I dropped the subject.

In the three weeks since, we appear to have part of an answer. The Enquirer again not covering itself in glory—journalists are supposed to protect their sources—leaked that the source was Ms. Sanchez’s brother.
This does not absolve Ms. Sanchez. My siblings see what’s on my phone only if I forward it to them.
But at least a red herring is being dispatched back to the deep. Mr. Bezos and his associates deliberately promoted a Hollywood-sized misdirection, with spies and political conspiracy extending all the way to the White House and Saudi Arabia.