PLATT - CURATED News

Who says I can't
http://www.espn.com/espn/feature/story/_/id/25983010/who-says-rob-mendez-head-football-coach

GENERAL INTEREST
Model, 23, who put her virginity up for sale with a notorious online escort agency claims to have secured a fee of £2M from an unnamed Tokyo politician
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-6733357/Cinderella-Escorts-model-Mahbuba-Mammadzada-sells-virginity-politician.html

Revealed: The Irish family who kept their £153 million lottery ticket under a mattress for safe keeping after realising their family of nine had become multimillionaires
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6733003/The-Irish-sisters-kept-153-million-lottery-ticket-mattress-safe-keeping.html

RELIGION
The United Methodist Church will vote on LGBT issues. The outcome could tear it apart
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2019/02/21/united-methodist-church-could-split-lgbt-issues/2940322002/

CULTURE
Rise of the Warrior Monk 
https://www.nationalreview.com/2019/02/men-dropping-out-warrior-monk-archetype/?utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=NR%20Daily%20Saturday%202019-02-23&utm_term=NRDaily-Smart

PROGRESSIVES RUNNING AMOK
Don’t Give to Your Alma Mater
See the second Wall Street Journal article, below.

Microsoft workers don’t want the U.S. Army to use their products for war 
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/microsoft-workers-dont-want-the-us-army-to-use-their-products-for-war-2019-02-23?siteid=yhoof2&yptr=yahoo

ECONOMY
Is Less Population Even Scarier Than More?
See the first Wall Street Journal article, below.

SPACE
SpaceX Starship and The Von Braun Rotating Space Station
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vTNP01Sg-Ss

‘Beresheet’ to launch tonight, propelling Israel to the moon 
https://www.jpost.com/HEALTH-SCIENCE/Israeli-spacecraft-Beresheet-ready-for-take-off-581121

Israel’s first lunar spacecraft, Beresheet, blasts off - analysis 
https://www.jpost.com/Israel-News/Israels-first-lunar-spacecraft-Beresheet-blasts-off-analysis-581419

FOREIGN POLICY
Questions swirl around Trump's North Korea summit
https://thehill.com/policy/defense/431169-questions-swirl-around-trumps-north-korea-summit

SOUTH AFRICA
10 Scary Facts Indicating South Africa Is Becoming The Next Venezuela
http://thefederalist.com/2019/02/22/10-scary-facts-indicating-south-africa-becoming-next-venezuela/

VENEZUELA
At Venezuela’s Border, a Strange and Deadly Showdown Over Aid
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/22/world/americas/brazil-venezuela-border-shooting.html?action=click&module=Top%20Stories&pgtype=Homepage

TRUMPGATE
Court records reveal a Mueller report right in plain view
https://www.yahoo.com/news/court-records-reveal-mueller-report-134727224.html

Five tantalizing questions about Mueller’s investigation
https://thehill.com/policy/national-security/431212-five-tantalizing-questions-about-muellers-investigation

POLITICS
Donald Trump's plan for 2020 Democrats: Cause chaos and sow division
https://www.cnn.com/2019/02/22/politics/trump-2020-democratic-primary/index.html

Why Kamala Harris may be her own worst enemy
https://freebeacon.com/columns/clumsy-kamala/

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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 LINK FOR COMLETE STORY

https://www.wsj.com/articles/is-less-population-even-scarier-than-more-11550859496

Is Less Population Even Scarier Than More?

By every ecological measurement humanity has overpopulated the world and we are far exceeding its carrying capacity.

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Feb. 22, 2019 1:18 p.m. ET

Photo: Artur Widak/NurPhoto via Getty Images

Regarding Lyman Stone’s review of Darrell Bricker and John Ibbitson’s “Empty Planet” (Bookshelf, Feb. 7): Mr. Stone says, “Fewer people participating in the economy will mean slower economic growth, less entrepreneurship, rising inequality and calamitous government debt.” But Messrs. Bricker and Ibbitson actually paint a far more nuanced picture finding, according to the publisher’s website: “a smaller global population will bring with it many benefits. Fewer workers will command higher wages, the environment will improve, the risk of famine will wane and falling birthrates in the developing world will bring greater affluence and autonomy for women.”

Bob Frost
San Francisco

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Don’t Give to Your Alma Mater

Any politically incorrect moment from a major donor’s past could be used to excoriate him.

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Crispin Sartwell

Feb. 22, 2019 6:38 p.m. ET

Do you donate money to your beloved alma mater? Before you write your next check, you may want to consider what happened to Bob Garthwait, an alumnus of and major donor to Pennsylvania’s Gettysburg College—and until this week a college trustee.

Mr. Garthwait resigned from the board Tuesday after a photo emerged of him as a Gettysburg undergraduate in 1980. He was at a theme party based on the classic sitcom “Hogan’s Heroes,” and Mr. Garthwait was dressed as a guard at a German prisoner-of-war camp, complete with swastika armband. A student found the image in the college yearbook and took it to a professor, Stephen Stern. The professor took it to the school newspaper and the administration. The administration almost certainly pressured Mr. Garthwait—who had endowed a “leadership center” on campus—to resign.
Mr. Sartwell teaches philosophy at Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pa.