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GENERAL INTEREST
Air New Zealand Flight 901 (What a c_____rf__k!!)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_New_Zealand_Flight_901

What Your Packing Style Reveals About You
https://www.aarp.org/travel/travel-tips/packing/info-2018/packing-style.html

Honda Ridgeline Recalled for Carwash Sensitivity
https://www.yahoo.com/news/honda-ridgeline-recalled-carwash-sensitivity-192300295.html

HEALTH
'Zombie' deer disease is in 24 states and thousands of infected deer are eaten each year, expert warns
https://start.att.net/news/read/article/usa_today-zombie_deer_disease_is_in_24_states_and_thousands-rgannett/category/news

FINANCIAL
California town trials universal basic income program and will give a 130 residents $500 for the next 18 months to see if it'll combat poverty
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6711491/California-town-trials-universal-income-handful-residents-500-year.html

ENVIRONMENT
Bill Gates Warns of the Dangers of Trucks, Cement and Cow Farts 
https://www.ecowatch.com/bill-melinda-gates-climate-change-2629057461.html

$1,973 LEDs and the Green New Deal
See the first Wall Street Journal article, below.

Gas Shortages Give New York an Early Taste of the Green New Deal
See the second Wall Street Journal article, below.

FOREIGN POLICY
Heather Nauert withdraws her name from consideration for UN Ambassador job
https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/430369-heather-nauert-withdraws-her-name-from-consideration-for-un

WALL 
A national emergency has been declared. Now what?
https://www.yahoo.com/news/national-emergency-declared-now-215120644.html

National emergency or power grab?
https://www.yahoo.com/news/national-emergency-power-grab-030334296.html

Here’s how Trump wants to pay for the border wall after invoking a national emergency 
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/heres-how-trump-wants-to-pay-for-the-border-wall-after-invoking-a-national-emergency-2019-02-15

Trump’s End Run
https://www.nationalreview.com/2019/02/trump-national-emergency-declaration-bypasses-congressional-spending-power/?utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=NR%20Daily%20Saturday%202019-02-16&utm_term=NRDaily-Smart

TRUMPGATE
Collusion: The Criminalization of Policy Disputes 
https://www.nationalreview.com/2019/02/trump-russia-collusion-investigation-criminalization-policy-disputes/?utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=NR%20Daily%20Saturday%202019-02-16&utm_term=NRDaily-Smart

POLITICS
How the Democrats Went Nuts in Three Months 
https://www.nationalreview.com/2019/02/democrats-went-crazy-in-three-months/?utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=NR%20Daily%20Saturday%202019-02-16&utm_term=NRDaily-Smart

What to Do About the Rebirth of Socialism 
https://www.nationalreview.com/2019/02/what-to-do-about-rebirth-of-socialism/?utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=NR%20Daily%20Saturday%202019-02-16&utm_term=NRDaily-Smart

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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)  SEE LINKS For full WSJ story

https://www.wsj.com/articles/1-973-leds-and-the-green-new-deal-11550274408?emailToken=c11645f88d25155c32935f23690d987faxsRvSMi5qUFkheOcXUxzCFhAsKxvnIKPjyGEIwOPA7I4GpY5QigH6Ht7dTjyot4KQ4GPbYhIeQP8tq1Z85ZoQ%3D%3D&reflink=article_email_share

$1,973 LEDs and the Green New Deal

How many union workers does it take to screw in a light bulb?

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The Editorial Board

Feb. 15, 2019 6:46 p.m. ET

A new mural of freshman Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, in Manhattan. Photo: G. Ronald Lopez/Zuma Press

The Green New Deal that Democrats unveiled last week has a grand ambition to eliminate fossil fuels in 10 years, retrofit every building in America, and guarantee high-paying jobs in the bargain. If you want to see how that works in the real world, consider the public housing projects near Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s New York office.

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https://www.wsj.com/articles/gas-shortages-give-new-york-an-early-taste-of-the-green-new-deal-11550272395

Gas Shortages Give New York an Early Taste of the Green New Deal

The state is dependent on imports even though it sits atop the abundant Marcellus Shale.

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By

Robert Bryce

Feb. 15, 2019 6:13 p.m. ET

A gas refinery in Marcus Hook, Pa., July 11, 2012. Photo: Matt Slocum/Associated Press

The combination of hydraulic fracturing and horizontal drilling—sometimes known as the “shale revolution”—has enabled Texas, Pennsylvania and other states to produce record quantities of natural gas, some of which is being frozen, loaded onto giant ships, and transported to customers in places like Chile, China and India. Thanks to the environmental policies of Gov. Andrew Cuomo, New York has missed out on this windfall.

Less than two weeks after Con Ed announced the moratorium on new gas connections, the utility announced it would seek an 11% hike in residential natural-gas rates and a nearly 6% increase in residential electricity rates.
Policies have consequences. The moratorium on gas connections in Westchester is one of the knock-on effects of the antihydrocarbon policies of the Cuomo administration, and consumers will be forced to pay the bill.
Mr. Bryce is a Manhattan Institute senior fellow and producer of the forthcoming documentary “Juice: How Electricity Explains the World.”