Tuesday, April 16, 2019

PLATT - CURATED News

GENERAL INTEREST
Cassowary kills man at farm near Alachua
https://start.att.net/news/read/article/the_gainesville_sun-cassowary_kills_man_at_farm_near_alachua-tca/category/news

This Is What We Do - Backwoods Edition
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F3R2pmRno5A

Suspended Move of four 400 ton retired generators from Southern CA to Clive, UT
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3-xEFR9-T5I

She’s the Thread Running Through a Five-Decade-Old Sewing Class
See the second Wall Street Journal article, below.

A perfume bottle shaped like a grenade. A pocket-sized pitchfork: TSA's social media highlight weird stuff in travelers' bags
https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/weird/ct-tsa-confiscated-items-20190401-story.html

Bald eagles are taking trash from a Seattle landfill and dumping it into suburban yards
https://boingboing.net/2019/04/04/bald-eagles-are-taking-trash-f.html

Skier Spots Rare Snownado in Colorado
https://weather.com/storms/winter/video/skier-spots-rare-snownado-in-colorado?pl=pl-latest-forecasts

DARWIN AWARD CANDIDATE
Man almost has his arm ripped off by a lioness after trying to stroke it in its cage as his horrified wife looks on in South Africa
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6914873/Man-arm-ripped-lioness-trying-pet-South-Africa.html

HEALTH
A deadly infection is sweeping some NY hospitals — but health officials won’t say where 
https://nypost.com/2019/04/12/a-deadly-infection-is-sweeping-some-ny-hospitals-but-health-officials-wont-say-where/?utm_campaign=iosapp&utm_source=mail_app

How to Follow the New Advice on Daily Aspirin
https://www.aarp.org/health/drugs-supplements/info-2019/preventive-aspirin-recommendations.html

EDUCATION
Homer Meets Generation Z 
https://www.nationalreview.com/2019/04/classical-literature-study-homer-the-iliad-modern-technology/?utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=NR%20Daily%20Saturday%202019-04-13&utm_term=NRDaily-Smart

GEOGRAPHY
Northeast megalopolis
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northeast_megalopolis

FINANCIAL
Alan Greenspan Says Economy Will Start to Fade ‘Very Dramatically
https://www.investmentwatchblog.com/alan-greenspan-says-economy-will-start-to-fade-very-dramatically/

CLIMATE CHANGE
The Case for a Green ‘No Deal’
See the first Wall Street Journal article, below.

TECHNOLOGY
Shocking report reveals more than 60,000 donated iPhones were SCRAPPED in the last three years because the anti-theft activation lock was left on, leaving them useless
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-6917339/Without-turning-feature-donated-iPhone-straight-scrap-pile.html

CYBER SECURITY
Hacker group leaks hundreds of law officer records 
https://nypost.com/2019/04/13/hacker-group-leaks-hundreds-of-law-officer-records/?utm_campaign=iosapp&utm_source=mail_app

FOREIGN POLICY
Trump sends warm greetings to North Korea’s Kim Jong Un via Twitter
https://nypost.com/2019/04/13/trump-sends-warm-greetings-to-north-koreas-kim-jong-un-via-twitter/?utm_campaign=iosapp&utm_source=mail_app

IMMIGRATION
Congress opens door to fraught immigration talks
https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/438708-congress-opens-door-to-fraught-immigration-talks

US can keep sending asylum-seekers back to Mexico: court ruling 
https://nypost.com/2019/04/13/us-can-keep-sending-asylum-seekers-back-to-mexico-court-ruling/?utm_campaign=iosapp&utm_source=mail_app

Migrants break border gate, force their way into Mexico 
https://nypost.com/2019/04/13/migrants-break-border-gate-force-their-way-into-mexico/?utm_campaign=iosapp&utm_source=mail_app

What I Learned in the Peace Corps in Africa: Trump Is Right
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2018/01/what_i_learned_in_peace_corps_in_africa_trump_is_right.html

POLITICS
The BDS Movement Is a Cleverly Disguised Campaign to Destroy Israel
https://www.nationalreview.com/2019/04/the-bds-movement-is-a-cleverly-disguised-campaign-to-destroy-israel/?utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=NR%20Daily%20Saturday%202019-04-13&utm_term=NRDaily-Smart

Mitch McConnell is getting sick of Donald Trump's bad nominees
https://start.att.net/news/read/category/news/article/cnn-mitch_mcconnell_is_getting_sick_of_donald_trumps_b-cnn2


-- 
"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/the-case-for-a-green-no-deal-11555021957?emailToken=d2707788d5bb6923caa53c12d261ec42PsuGxAWcj9Ejjn+dmUNDDQinq2bIHbXc2zXW6d1RRzK/hKljdoIGxlRJNwW2c1yVXmQ49ImwYQuJXqkQ7UN9ZQ%3D%3D&reflink=article_email_share

The Case for a Green ‘No Deal’

Climate alarmism isn’t popular with the public, so Republicans don’t need an alternative.

April 11, 2019 6:32 p.m. ET

Emissions rise from a coal-fired power station behind a temple in Tongling, China, Jan. 16.
 Photo: Qilai Shen/Bloomberg News

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