Wednesday, March 27, 2019

PLATT - CURATED News

Assume the Left Lies, and You Will Discover the Truth
https://www.nationalreview.com/2019/03/left-lies-trump-russia-collusion-allegation/

GENERAL INTEREST
Going above and beyond: The stunning winners of a prestigious drone photography competition revealed
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/travel/travel_news/article-6848277/The-stunning-winners-prestigious-drone-photography-competition-revealed.html

Hives turns city's blight into something sweet 
http://www.jewishworldreview.com/0319/albom032619.php3

God Chose Her to Be a Beggar
https://townhall.com/columnists/tompurcell/2019/03/26/god-chose-her-to-be-a-beggar-n2543696?utm_source=thdaily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl&newsletterad=03/26/2019&bcid=3cb4e56ddeac8885c78e874bb1d8f1a4&recip=27077809

HEALTH CARE
Surprise Justice move on ObamaCare puts GOP in bind
https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/435928-surprise-justice-move-on-obamacare-puts-gop-in-bind?userid=288549

Here's what happens if the courts kill Obamacare 
https://start.att.net/news/read/article/cnn-heres_what_happens_if_the_courts_kill_obamacare-cnn2/category/news

HUMOR
The News in Zingers 
http://www.jewishworldreview.com/0319/hamilton.php3

TRANSPORTATION
Will High-Speed Rail Ever Get on Track in the U.S.?
https://www.ecowatch.com/high-speed-rail-united-states-2632740130.html

CLIMATE CHANGE
World In Midst of Carbon Drought (w/ Prof. William Happer, Princeton University)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U-9UlF8hkhs

ENERGY
Gassing Up
https://www.nationalreview.com/2019/03/natural-gas-energy-production-cleaner/

TECHNOLOGY
thanks, TM ..
Uploading the first 5 MByte hard disk to a Pan Am plane, 1956


FOREIGN POLICY
US will not 'stand idly' on Russian role in Venezuela: Pompeo
https://www.yahoo.com/news/us-not-stand-idly-russian-role-venezuela-pompeo-151345776.html

DEFENSE
A new defense against nuclear strikes: Pentagon successfully tests first-ever missile 'salvo' using multiple weapons to take down a simulated warhead from 4,000 miles away
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-6849467/Pentagon-Missile-defense-test-succeeds-shootdown.html

LAW AND ORDER
Chicago mayor on Jussie Smollett’s dropped charges: ‘Whitewash of justice’
https://pagesix.com/2019/03/26/chicago-mayor-on-jussie-smolletts-dropped-charges-whitewash-of-justice/?utm_campaign=iosapp&utm_source=mail_app

Why did prosecutors drop all charges against Jussie Smollett?
https://start.att.net/news/read/category/news/article/cnn-why_did_prosecutors_drop_all_charges_against_jussi-cnn2

Lawyer for Michael Jackson, Jussie Smollett named as Avenatti co-conspirator
https://nypost.com/2019/03/25/lawyer-for-michael-jackson-jussie-smollett-named-as-avenatti-co-conspirator/?utm_campaign=iosapp&utm_source=mail_app

MEDIA
A Catastrophic Media Failure
See the second Wall Street Journal article, below.

VENEZUELA
Large new blackouts strike Venezuelan capital, provinces 
https://nypost.com/2019/03/26/large-new-blackouts-strike-venezuelan-capital-provinces/?utm_campaign=iosapp&utm_source=mail_app

TRUMPGATE
Hitler finds out the Mueller Investigation is Over
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=239&v=7cVsmuxOj28

The Late, Not-So-Great Mueller Investigation 
https://www.nationalreview.com/2019/03/trump-russia-investigation-mueller-report/

Mueller and the Obama Accounting
See the first Wall Street Journal article, below.

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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)
https://www.wsj.com/articles/mueller-and-the-obama-accounting-11553534271?emailToken=aff968a02abd6a9c15ca53a62a332711W1VC2U8ICSmOKK1ObG61ACSHFeiT0e2bwoFdx/GFU+6EGKi5dDcD+czgyIvG7zEOlOjMWzaOsmS4ZSk/ssPK3w%3D%3D&reflink=article_email_share

Mueller and the Obama Accounting

The former President now owes the country an explanation for the historic abuse of government surveillance powers.

March 25, 2019 1:17 p.m. ET
On Oct. 28, 2013, President Barack Obama and                  James Comey participate in the installation ceremony                  for Mr. Comey as FBI director at the bureau’s                  Washington headquarters.
On Oct. 28, 2013, President Barack Obama and James Comey participate in the installation ceremony for Mr. Comey as FBI director at the bureau’s Washington headquarters.
 Photo: Charles Dharapak/Associated Press
The Mueller report confirms that the Obama administration, without evidence, turned the surveillance powers of the federal government against the presidential campaign of the party out of power. This historic abuse of executive authority was either approved by President Barack Obama or it was not. It’s time for Mr. Obama, who oddly receives few mentions in stories about his government’s spying on associates of the 2016 Trump campaign, to say what he knew and did not know about the targeting of his party’s opponents.
If he was briefed, for example, on plans by the Justice Department to seek wiretaps on Trump campaign associates, it’s hard to believe Mr. Obama would not have been highly interested in the matter. ..............................xxxxxxx  FULL STORY AT LINK ABOVE
Out on a Limb
“Conclusion of Mueller probe raises anew criticisms of coverage,” Washington Post, March 24
Other Than That, The Stories Were Accurate
“For deeply sourced, relentlessly reported coverage in the public interest that dramatically furthered the nation’s understanding of Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election and its connections to the Trump campaign, the President-elect’s transition team and his eventual administration,” 2018 Pulitzer Prize citation lauding the staffs of the New York Times and Washington Post.
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https://www.wsj.com/articles/a-catastrophic-media-failure-11553555444?emailToken=6291110aa1d6b716f0274235462d8c92NstNTm0PeO+6oxhMRazHczexK5ZR96OhfQI4Mw/4A4fVBaQc+d1cUcmtc1d/KhDbs2cr7553woT5yUzqfYxJqw%3D%3D&reflink=article_email_share

A Catastrophic Media Failure

America’s blue-chip journalists botched the Russia story from its birth to its final breath Sunday.

March 25, 2019 7:10 p.m. ET

President Trump speaks outside the White House, March 22.
 Photo: Andrew Harrer/Bloomberg News
Robert Mueller’s investigation is over, but questions still abound. Not about collusion, Russian interference or obstruction of justice, but about the leading lights of journalism who managed to get the story so wrong, and for so long.
It wasn’t merely an error here or there. America’s blue-chip journalists botched the entire story, from its birth during the presidential campaign to its final breath Sunday—and they never stopped congratulating themselves for it. Last year the New York Times and Washington Post shared a Pulitzer Prize “for deeply sourced, relentlessly reported coverage in the public interest that dramatically furthered the nation’s understanding of Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election and its connections to the Trump campaign, the President-elect’s transition team and his eventual administration.”......xxxxxx full story at above link
So much for accepting Robert Mueller’s conclusions and recommendations. If your objective is to bring down Mr. Trump, nothing Mr. Mueller or anyone else finds—or fails to find—makes a difference. Mr. Trump didn’t collude with Russia, but he did defeat Mrs. Clinton. From their behavior it is evident that many in the media view that as sufficient to establish his guilt. For them, the Trump-Russia investigation was never about protecting democracy or securing elections—never mind telling the truth, which is supposed to be their job.
Mr. Davis is a co-founder of the Federalist.

Tuesday, March 26, 2019

PLATT - CURATED News

GENERAL INTEREST
Columbia Space Shuttle: the Untold Story
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hYf8xYEI-Mc&app=desktop

Keillor:  It's coming and will find you in due course 
http://www.jewishworldreview.com/0319/keillor032519.php3

PHYSICAL HEALTH
Kale Ranks High on ‘Dirty Dozen’ Pesticide List
https://weather.com/news/trending/video/kale-ranks-high-on-dirty-dozen-pesticide-list?pl=pl-the-latest

MENTAL HEALTH
The 10 best foods to reduce anxiety 
http://www.jewishworldreview.com/0319/anxiety_food.php3



HEALTH CARE
Justice Department sides with court ruling Obamacare invalid
https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/435759-justice-department-sides-with-court-ruling-obamacare-invalid?rnd=1553564458

HUMOR
The News in Zingers 
http://www.jewishworldreview.com/0319/hamilton.php3

EDUCATION
The Impact of Collaborative Space on Campus
https://info.higheredfacilitiesforum.com/blog/the-impact-of-collaborative-space-on-campus

TRAVEL
Adventurous. Alone. Attacked. 
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/25/travel/solo-female-travel.html?emc=edit_ne_20190325&nl=evening-briefing&nlid=5893540820190325&te=1

ENERGY
As Virginia Solar Farm Decision Looms, Fight Continues Over Cleanup Costs
https://townhall.com/columnists/johnnykampis/2019/03/25/as-virginia-solar-farm-decision-looms-fight-continues-over-cleanup-costs-n2543556?utm_source=thdaily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl&newsletterad=03/25/2019&bcid=3cb4e56ddeac8885c78e874bb1d8f1a4&recip=27077809

The Metastasizing Distortions of Electricity Favoritism
https://www.nationalreview.com/2019/03/electricity-generation-subsidies-unintended-consequences/?utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=NR%20Daily%20Monday%20through%20Friday%202019-03-25&utm_term=NRDaily-Smart

SCIENCE
Proof that girls and boys are born to be different: Controversial study finds that brain differences between the sexes begin in the womb
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-6845991/Controversial-study-finds-brain-differences-sexes-begin-womb.html

DENDROCHRONOLOGY
Tree Rings Reveal Climate Secrets of the Forest 
https://www.ecowatch.com/tree-rings-climate-2632373698.html

MEDIA
Bonfire of the Media Vanities 
https://www.nationalreview.com/2019/03/bonfire-of-the-media-vanities/?utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=NR%20Daily%20Monday%20through%20Friday%202019-03-25&utm_term=NRDaily-Smart

BIG BROTHER
The Custodial State
http://thezman.com/wordpress/?p=16857

ISRAEL
Hoyer delivers strong defense of US-Israel alliance in veiled rebuke of Muslim Dem pol Omar 
http://www.jewishworldreview.com/0319/kane032519.php3

TRUMPGATE
Robert Mueller Has a Money Problem
See the Wall Street Journal article, below.

Deep-State Dumpster Fire 
http://www.jewishworldreview.com/0319/steyn032519.php3

Echoes of Clinton Emails in the Mueller Report's End
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2019/03/donald-trump-hillary-clinton-comey-barr/585652/?utm_medium=offsite&utm_source=yahoo&utm_campaign=yahoo-non-hosted&yptr=yahoo

POLITICS
Green New Deal vote tests Dem unity in Senate
https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/435362-green-new-deal-vote-tests-dem-unity-in-senate

Buttigieg shows signs of emerging from the Democratic pack
https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/435696-buttigieg-shows-signs-of-emerging-from-the-democratic-pack

-- 
"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) See link for full story
https://www.wsj.com/articles/robert-mueller-has-a-money-problem-11553468712?emailToken=b8a931cb3525395a8d40fd173171991a0jA3mfTCwOr02XKCe5UoiU8WMrFZiH2GFhoDf48al7Qp+9iscETuPwIG1D5t/wLSxBi4ri26fHJeO59yTDE9Rg%3D%3D&reflink=article_email_share

Robert Mueller Has a Money Problem

Congress’s oversight on how to fund his office casts doubt on every conviction he wins.

March 24, 2019 7:05 p.m. ET

Photo: 
Al Drago/Bloomberg News
Robert Mueller has delivered his report, but there’s a defect in how his investigation was funded. Unless Congress fixes it, any prosecution by Mr. Mueller’s office may be invalid.
Instead of asking Congress to appropriate money for Mr. Mueller’s investigation, the Justice Department funded it out of an unlimited account established in 1987 to pay “independent counsels.” The problem is that Mr. Mueller is a special counsel, not an independent counsel.
The terms are not interchangeable............................xxx
It isn’t surprising that this funding issue has gone unnoticed. The Justice Department made Mr. Mueller only the second prosecutor ever subject to the post-1999 special-counsel regulations—which, as the department itself acknowledges, contain provisions inconsistent with independence. Thus the independent-counsel fund shouldn’t be covering Mr. Mueller’s investigation.
Absent a legislative cure for this problem, his targets may have the ultimate trump card.
Mr. Huff is a former counsel to the House and Senate judiciary committees.

PLATT - CURATED News

GENERAL INTEREST
World's Best Jump Roper - Hawaii Style
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=34&v=nCBwEaB1eQU

TRAVEL
What’s the real difference between flying economy and FIRST CLASS? Inside British Airways’ £2.8k A380 suite featuring a personal wardrobe, bone china plates and a 7ft 6in bed (but they do serve wine worth just £10 a bottle)
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/travel/travel_news/article-6805131/Inside-British-Airways-2-8k-A380-CLASS-suite-flying-ECONOMY.html

Beware the perils at 35,000ft! How everything from eating to using the loo on a plane can put your health at risk
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/travel/travel_news/article-6842269/How-stay-healthy-holiday-flight.html

ARCHAEOLOGY
13,000 Years Ago, a Comet Set Earth on Fire Says Shocking New Evidence
https://www.sciencealert.com/new-evidence-suggests-a-comet-set-earth-on-fire-13-000-years-ago

CYBER SECURITY
Massive Android ad fraud scam drains your phone battery and lets advertisers make money by running hidden video ads, report finds
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/craigsilverman/in-banner-video-ad-fraud

NATIONAL SECURITY
Test for detecting radioactive material passing through ports from further away using lasers could boost security and help prevent a 'dirty bomb' attack
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-6840039/Test-detecting-radioactive-material-help-prevent-dirty-bomb-attack.html

DEFENSE
Russian system uses infantry to spot for robots
https://www.c4isrnet.com/unmanned/2019/03/04/russias-new-robot-is-a-combat-platform-with-drone-scouts/?fbclid=IwAR1d-ymFrW7r4Rhsok-5FhpqjTM1OJqjbsSmAr9S10HxF9-ebIigR8nxhKQ

Raptor Killer: Could Russia's S-500 Shoot down an F-22 Stealth Fighter?
https://nationalinterest.org/blog/buzz/raptor-killer-could-russias-s-500-shootdown-f-22-stealth-fighter-48902

LAW AND ORDER
Man arrested for keeping an 86-inch flat-screen TV that was mailed to his home by mistake
https://www.yahoo.com/news/man-kept-tv-sent-mistake-arrested-larceny-misleading-police-officer-230124458.html

IRAN
US hits Iran with new sanctions while Pompeo visits Lebanon
https://www.yahoo.com/news/us-hits-iran-sanctions-while-pompeo-visits-lebanon-140727669.html

VENEZUELA
Russian air force planes land in Venezuela carrying troops -report
https://www.jpost.com/American-Politics/Russian-air-force-planes-land-in-Venezuela-carrying-troops-report-584470

UPDATE 1-U.S. imposes sanctions on Venezuela bank Bandes after Guaido aide's arrest
https://www.yahoo.com/news/1-u-imposes-sanctions-venezuela-190503727.html

COMEY/MCCABE/CLAPPER/BRENNAN/RICEGATE
How to end our national nightmare — probe Hillary Clinton again
https://nypost.com/2019/03/23/how-to-end-our-national-nightmare-probe-hillary-clinton-again/?utm_campaign=iosapp&utm_source=mail_app

TRUMPGATE
The vast attempt to undo the 2016 election has failed
https://spectator.us/undo-2016-election-mueller/

Turn in your smartphones! How Mueller kept a lid on Trump-Russia probe
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-russia-secrecy/turn-in-your-smartphones-how-mueller-kept-a-lid-on-trump-russia-probe-idUSKCN1R3195

‘It feels like a cover-up’: Impatient Dems concoct Mueller report conspiracies
https://nypost.com/2019/03/23/it-feels-like-a-cover-up-impatient-dems-concoct-mueller-report-conspiracies/?utm_campaign=iosapp&utm_source=mail_app

After Mueller’s Exoneration of Trump, Full Disclosure
https://www.nationalreview.com/2019/03/trump-russia-investigation-mueller-report-full-disclosure-documents-testimony/?utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=WIR%20-%20Sunday%202019-03-24&utm_term=WIR-Smart

Mueller's conclusion raises new questions
https://thehill.com/policy/national-security/435551-muellers-conclusion-raises-new-questions

Mueller's end shifts focus to New York prosecutors
https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/435456-muellers-end-shifts-focus-to-new-york-prosecutors

POLITICS
Fox News Poll: Biden, Sanders top Democratic preference
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/fox-news-poll-biden-sanders-top-democratic-preference

Omar controversies shadow Dems at AIPAC
https://thehill.com/homenews/house/435403-omar-controversies-shadow-dems-at-aipac


-- 
"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)

PLATT - CURATED News

GENERAL INTEREST
The Sacrament of Bingo
https://www.nationalreview.com/2019/03/bingo-game-church-sacrament/?utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=NR%20Daily%20Saturday%202019-03-23&utm_term=NRDaily-Smart

$100 antique discovered at garage sale auctioned off for $2.1 million at Sotheby’s
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/100-antique-discovered-at-garage-sale-auctioned-off-for-21-million-at-sothebys-2019-03-22

Thanks mum and dad! Baby buffalo comes within seconds of being eaten by a lion... before its parents charge the predator and scare it off
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6838539/Botswana-baby-buffalo-comes-seconds-eaten-lion.html

HEALTH
20 Nutrition Facts That Should Be Common Sense (But Aren't) 
https://www.ecowatch.com/nutrition-facts-2632115678.html

NEPOTISM OFF THE RAILS
With ThriveNYC, Chirlane McCray clearly flunked management test
https://nypost.com/2019/03/22/with-thrivenyc-chirlane-mccray-has-clearly-flunked-her-management-test/?utm_campaign=iosapp&utm_source=mail_app

ENERGY
Greens’ recipe for more New York gas shortages 
https://nypost.com/2019/03/21/greens-recipe-for-more-new-york-gas-shortages/?utm_campaign=iosapp&utm_source=mail_app

SCIENCE
Scientists develop 'safe' new method for creating hydrogen gas to power electric cars that could help to slash emissions and production costs
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-6840625/Scientists-develop-safe-new-method-creating-hydrogen-gas-power-electric-cars.html

CYBER SECURITY
Homeland Security warns of worrying flaw that could let hackers easily take over cardio defibrillators after they've been implanted and rewrite the commands
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-6840637/DHS-warns-hackers-defibrillators-theyve-implanted-rewrite-commands.html

DEFENSE
Floods show national security threat posed by climate change
https://nypost.com/2019/03/22/floods-show-national-security-threat-posed-by-climate-change/?utm_campaign=iosapp&utm_source=mail_app

MEDIA
Mainstream media stunned as Mueller report filed with no new indictments planned
https://www.yahoo.com/news/mainstream-media-stunned-mueller-report-152236518.html

NBC reporter caught grooming his hair with spit during live shot 
https://nypost.com/2019/03/22/nbc-reporter-caught-grooming-his-hair-with-spit-during-live-shot/?utm_campaign=iosapp&utm_source=mail_app



IMMIGRATION
Judge scrutinizes Trump's policy shift on asylum seekers
https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-policy-sending-asylum-seekers-mexico-faces-judge-051738144.html

NKOR
North Korea abruptly pulls its staff out of liaison office with the South near DMZ border on 'higher-level' instructions, in fresh blow to peace efforts after Kim's summit with Trump collapsed
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6838099/Seoul-North-Korea-withdrew-staff-liaison-office.html

Kim Jong-un 'purges his personal photographer for damaging his "supreme dignity" by blocking a crowd's view of him for just THREE seconds'
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6838193/Kim-Jong-purges-personal-photographer-blocking-crowds-view-just-three-seconds.html

VENEZUELA
Water is now ‘gold’ for desperate Venezuelans 
https://nypost.com/2019/03/22/water-is-now-gold-for-desperate-venezuelans/?utm_campaign=iosapp&utm_source=mail_app

Venezuelan power struggle creates diplomatic duel abroad 
https://start.att.net/news/read/category/news/article/the_associated_press-venezuelan_power_struggle_creates_diplomatic_duel-ap

TRUMPGATE
The wisdom of Trump's lawyers, and the accountability that must follow Mueller's report
https://thehill.com/opinion/white-house/435394-the-wisdom-of-trumps-lawyers-and-the-accountability-that-must-follow

Explainer: How much of the Mueller report must U.S. attorney general disclose?
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-russia-disclosure-explainer/explainer-how-much-of-the-mueller-report-must-u-s-attorney-general-disclose-idUSKCN1R32S2

Mueller Report Fizzles. Prepare For The Reckoning.
https://townhall.com/columnists/markdavis/2019/03/22/mueller-report-fizzles-prepare-for-the-reckoning-n2543579?utm_source=thdaily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl&newsletterad=03/23/2019&bcid=3cb4e56ddeac8885c78e874bb1d8f1a4&recip=27077809

POLITICS
Why are 2020 Democrats so weird? (And other commentary) 
https://theweek.com/articles/830443/why-are-2020-democrats-weird

Trump’s McCain Insults Stir Republicans’ Better Angels
https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2019-03-21/trump-s-mccain-insults-cause-isakson-and-others-to-protest

-- 
"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)