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

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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)