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.

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