Thursday, May 30, 2019

PLATT - CURATED News

ENERAL INTEREST
The Best Hole-in-the-Wall Diner in Every State 
https://www.msn.com/en-us/foodanddrink/restaurantsandnews/the-best-hole-in-the-wall-diner-in-every-state/ss-AAyQxCQ?ocid=spartandhp

Nepal Says Everest Rules Might Change After Traffic Jams and Deaths
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/29/world/asia/mount-everest.html?te=1&nl=evening-briefing&emc=edit_ne_20190529&login=email&auth=login-email

HEALTH
You're having a heart attack; why not ask for help?
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2019/05/190528120500.htm

WHO AFRO - Situation Report - Ebola Virus Disease Outbreak in DRC - Sitrep 43 (2019)
http://newsletters.afro.who.int/outbreak-dashboards/18uajtxtcrt1hj3oiwqrmm?email=true&a=11&p=55076937

Alabama man dies days after copperhead snake bite 
https://nypost.com/2019/05/29/alabama-man-dies-3-days-after-suffering-bite-from-copperhead-snake/?utm_campaign=iosapp&utm_source=mail_app

Bat Hiding In iPad Case Bites New Hampshire Man, Infects Him With Rabies 
https://start.att.net/news/read/category/news/article/newsweek-bat_hiding_in_ipad_case_bites_new_hampshire_man_in-rnewsweek

Forget that persistent myth: You can drink water while eating 
http://www.jewishworldreview.com/0519/water_while_eat.php3

EDUCATION
A universal bailout is the wrong fix for student loans 
https://nypost.com/2019/05/27/a-universal-bailout-is-the-wrong-fix-for-student-loans/?utm_campaign=iosapp&utm_source=mail_app

Who???s Afraid of Robert Smith???s Philanthropy?
See the first Wall Street Journal article, below.

BUSINESS
Netflix Will Have to Pay to Punish Georgia 
https://www.nationalreview.com/2019/05/netflix-will-have-to-pay-to-punish-georgia/

GM plant???s future buyer reportedly ???exists only on paper??? 
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/gm-plants-future-buyer-reportedly-exists-only-on-paper-2019-05-28

A Court???s Dangerous Antitrust Overreach
See the second Wall Street Journal article, below.

SCIENCE
Science & Environment
https://e.nationalgeographic.com/pub/sf/ResponseForm?_ri_=X0Gzc2X%3DYQpglLjHJlYQGpTf062hEi08qXHzgW5zctBXlkDc6aJCza4ch9jfNGhNtqFhBjOiSUlVXMtX%3DYQpglLjHJlYQGnGp2WIofnmSfrkquBujPIeza42tnMnzeczczgiPhwp4DYITde92gYzf1&_ei_=EkQgJ5cNJvKblRBlUktLNao

MYRMECOLOGY
The trick to getting rid of ants for good (it's not a spray) 
http://www.jewishworldreview.com/0519/ants.php3

CYBER SECURITY
Buying a house? Here???s how to ensure your confidential financial details remain secure 
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/buying-a-house-heres-how-to-ensure-your-confidential-financial-details-remain-secure-2019-05-29

How your iPhone harvests your personal data while you SLEEP: Popular apps use hidden trackers to collect emails, IP addresses and other sensitive information without consent
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-7080087/Popular-apps-use-hidden-trackers-collect-personal-data-without-users-consent.html

FOREIGN POLICY
'Don't say we didn't warn you!' China uses a coded message for WAR to threaten the U.S. as it hints it will ban the export of 'rare earth' minerals - essential for nuclear power plants and LED lights - unless Washington backs down
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7082011/Dont-say-didnt-warn-China-uses-code-word-WAR-threaten-U-S-rare-earths.html

DEFENSE
The Navy???s Urinal-Free Brand New Supercarrier Is A Big Fat Mess
https://taskandpurpose.com/uss-gerald-ford-navy-problems

Trump to US troops in Japan: 'When we build a new aircraft carrier, we're going to use steam' 
https://taskandpurpose.com/trump-aircraft-carrier-steam-catapult

Australian Navy helicopter pilots are 'targeted by LASERS' and warships trailed while on exercise in the South China Sea
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7080175/Australian-Navy-helicopters-targeted-LASERS-South-China-Sea.html

IMMIGRATION
Ted Cruz Informs Ilhan Omar That Her Tweet About 'Merit-based Immigration' Was Actually Racist 
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/leahbarkoukis/2019/05/29/ilhan-omar-deletes-racist-tweet-after-blowback-n2547000?utm_source=thdailypm&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl_pm&newsletterad=&bcid=3cb4e56ddeac8885c78e874bb1d8f1a4&recip=27077809

Guatemalan And American Officials Agree On How To Stop America's Immigration Crisis
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/bethbaumann/2019/05/28/us-and-guatemala-came-to-this-agreement-to-combat-americas-dire-immigration-crisis-n2546995?utm_source=thdaily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl&newsletterad=05/29/2019&bcid=3cb4e56ddeac8885c78e874bb1d8f1a4&recip=27077809

TRUMPGATE
Pelosi: Impeachment Not ???Off the Table??? but Dems Still Need to Make a ???Compelling??? Case
https://www.nationalreview.com/news/pelosi-impeachment-not-off-the-table-but-dems-still-need-to-make-a-compelling-case/?utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=NR%20Daily%20Monday%20through%20Friday%202019-05-29&utm_term=NRDaily-Smart

House Unlikely to Ever Get Trump's Tax Returns
https://townhall.com/columnists/betsymccaughey/2019/05/29/house-unlikely-to-ever-get-trumps-tax-returns-n2546991?utm_source=thdaily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl&newsletterad=05/29/2019&bcid=3cb4e56ddeac8885c78e874bb1d8f1a4&recip=27077809

POLITICS
Trump Can???t Blame Mueller for His Poor Approval Ratings 
https://www.nationalreview.com/2019/05/trump-approval-ratings-low-numbers-mueller-report/

Trump: 'Roy Moore cannot win' Alabama Senate seat
https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/445882-trump-roy-moore-cannot-win-alabama-senate-seat

Democrats worry Bernie Sanders could play spoiler
https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/445859-democrats-worry-bernie-sanders-could-play-spoiler

-- 
"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/whos-afraid-of-robert-smiths-philanthropy-11559084951?emailToken=e6c0e08d548d34f47133a87ec1a4a479kVqEYdLlti6jcHi8OIvgoTDYadAlQDiHoHDw1sLdGwpJbFREouX5ARjwJK01rjjCHVzF/7BKyb0av+JMpBa3Q+TitGl+oOmFIpDGD6aTxGc%3D&reflink=article_email_share

Who???s Afraid of Robert Smith???s Philanthropy?

The billionaire promises to pay off a graduating class???s student loans???and finds himself under attack.

May 28, 2019 7:09 p.m. ET
Philanthropist Robert F. Smith speaks at Morehouse College in Atlanta, May 19. Photo: Steve Schaefer/Atlanta Journal-Constitution/Associated Press
Robert Smith was raised in a working-class Denver neighborhood in the 1970s. A high-school science class in his junior year sparked his interest in transistors, the building blocks of computers, cellphones and other electronic devices. Transistors were invented in the 1940s by AT&T ???s Bell Labs, which had a facility not far from the teenager???s home. He applied for a summer internship there but was told it was available only to juniors and seniors in college. Unbowed and impatient, he spent months pestering people in the human-resources department to give him a shot. Eventually, they did.
Mr. Smith went on to earn an engineering degree at Cornell

PLATT - CURATED News

The Poppy Wall of Honor returned this Memorial Day weekend, honoring thousands of lives lost since World War I
https://taskandpurpose.com/poppy-wall-of-honor

GENERAL INTEREST
The real (surprisingly comforting) reason rural America is doomed to decline
https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/markets/the-real-surprisingly-comforting-reason-rural-america-is-doomed-to-decline/ar-AABQRfs?ocid=spartandhp

From a gorilla embracing its caretaker to a huge bear hunting for salmon: The stunning winners of a natural world photography contest revealed
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/travel/travel_news/article-7077267/The-stunning-winners-BigPicture-Natural-World-Photography-Competition-revealed.html

Alligator chomps down on man's arm and other karmic moments
https://nypost.com/video/alligator-chomps-down-on-mans-arm-and-other-karmic-moments/?utm_campaign=iosapp&utm_source=mail_app

HEALTH
WHO AFRO - Outbreaks and Emergencies Bulletin - Week 21/2019
http://newsletters.afro.who.int/outbreaks-weekly-bulletin/6fxw9y44qyu1hj3oiwqrmm?email=true&a=11&p=55068153

The Hot Zone (A very good "National Geographic" dramatization based on the facts of the discovery of Ebola)
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/tv/the-hot-zone/

Two Maggots Burrowed in This Woman???s Scalp While She Was on Vacation???Here???s How That Happens
https://start.att.net/news/read/article/health-two_maggots_burrowed_in_this_womans_scalp_while_sh-rtime/category/lifestyle

HUMOR
The News in Zingers
http://www.jewishworldreview.com/0519/hamilton.php3

BUSINESS AS USUAL
The Homeless Industrial Complex
https://californiaglobe.com/uncategorized/the-homeless-industrial-complex/

The preachers getting rich from poor Americans
https://www.bbc.com/news/stories-47675301

JOBS
The ???best job in America??? pays over $108,000 a year ??? and has a high number of openings
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/the-no-1-job-in-america-pays-108000-a-year-2019-05-03

Why becoming a Wienermobile driver is harder than getting into Harvard
https://nypost.com/2019/05/25/why-becoming-a-wienermobile-driver-is-harder-than-getting-into-harvard/?utm_campaign=iosapp&utm_source=mail_app

EDUCATION
Stop wasting your money on college
https://spectator.us/stop-wasting-money-college/

ENERGY
Daniel Turner: Stealth AOC ???Green New Deal??? now the law in New Mexico, voters be damned
https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/daniel-turner-stealth-version-of-aoc-green-new-deal-now-the-law-in-new-mexico-voters-be-damned

TECHNOLOGY
Why humanity will come to regret inventing self-driving cars
https://nypost.com/2019/05/25/why-humanity-will-come-to-regret-inventing-self-driving-cars/?utm_campaign=iosapp&utm_source=mail_app

FOREIGN POLICY
Trump???s High-Wire Act of Reestablishing Deterrence without War
https://www.nationalreview.com/2019/05/trump-foreign-policy-challenge-deterrence-without-war/

U.S. boycotts U.N. arms forum as Venezuela takes chair
https://news.yahoo.com/u-walks-u-n-arms-forum-venezuela-takes-085325447.html

DEFENSE
Is America preparing for the wrong war?
http://www.jewishworldreview.com/0519/thomas052819b.php3

A viral Army tweet paints a harrowing picture of the sacrifices made in military service
https://taskandpurpose.com/army-twitter-memorial-day

LAW AND ORDER
Facebook says Zuckerberg and Sandberg will defy subpoena to appear at hearing in Canada, risking rare contempt of Parliament charge
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7077929/Facebook-says-Zuckerberg-Sandberg-defy-subpoena-appear-hearing-Canada.html

NKOR
North Korea: UN report says people 'trapped in cycle of corruption'
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-48432690

UKRAINE
Putin???s wish backfires
https://washingtontimes-dc.newsmemory.com/?token=71aa1ec2dbe36926c2dbce94947705e9_5ced53e8_5cd1fdb&selDate=20190528&goTo=B01&artid=2&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=washingtontimes-E-Editions&utm_source=washingtontimes&utm_content=Read-Button

SPYGATE
Bill Barr???s Declassification Kerfuffle
https://www.nationalreview.com/2019/05/william-barr-declassification-authority-debate/

POLITICS
Nevada emerges as wild card in 2020 Democratic race
https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/445489-nevada-emerges-as-wild-card-in-2020-democratic-race

Blue-state House members try to reclaim higher SALT deductions that were cut in Trump???s tax overhaul
https://www.cnbc.com/2019/05/23/house-members-try-to-raise-trump-state-and-local-tax-deduction-cap.html

Democrats push us along the road to socialism with fake fixes based on fake facts
https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/liz-peek-democrats-push-us-along-the-road-to-socialism-with-fake-fixes-based-on-fake-facts

-- 

"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
WWII veteran, 97, still works at New Jersey grocery store
https://www.foxnews.com/us/wwii-veteran-still-works-at-new-jersey-grocery-store

Why don't the wings break?!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tu6k_-O8FGU

Car-size ???fireball??? lit up skies over southern Australia: NASA
https://nypost.com/2019/05/26/car-sized-fireball-lit-up-skies-over-southern-australia-nasa/?utm_campaign=iosapp&utm_source=mail_app

Nicole Kidman, Hugh Grant stop filming due to Shelter Island locals
https://pagesix.com/2019/05/26/nicole-kidman-hugh-grant-stop-filming-due-to-shelter-island-locals/?utm_campaign=iosapp&utm_source=mail_app

HUMOR
The News in Zingers
http://www.jewishworldreview.com/0519/hamilton.php3

FINANCIAL
Here's the value of $1 in each state, according to new data
https://start.att.net/news/read/article/fox_news-heres_the_value_of_1_in_each_state_according_to_ne-rfoxnews/category/finance

HERPETOLOGY
Sneaky Snake Found In Walmart Cart
https://start.att.net/player/article/geobeats-sneaky_snake_found_in_walmart_cart-velephant/category/news+

GEOLOGY
Our Oceans Are Slowly Draining Into Planet's Interior, Study Finds
https://start.att.net/player/article/geobeats-our_oceans_are_slowly_draining_into_planets_interi-velephant/category/news%2B

FOREIGN POLICY
Trump: 'We're not looking for regime change' in Iran
??https://thehill.com/policy/international/445640-trump-were-not-looking-for-regime-change-in-iran

DEFENSE
Military 'Widow's Tax' under fire on Capitol Hill
https://www.foxbusiness.com/economy/military-widows-tax-capitol-hill

The F-35 Is Getting Old: Why 6th Generation Fighters Will Dominate Everything
https://nationalinterest.org/blog/buzz/f-35-getting-old-why-6th-generation-fighters-will-dominate-everything-59772

NATIONAL SECURITY
Bannon's group built the wall ??? a mile of it, anyway ??? over the weekend
https://www.yahoo.com/news/bannon-built-the-wall-over-the-weekend-140449962.html

TRUMPGATE
Liz Cheney: Statements by agents investigating Trump 'could well be treason'
https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/445588-liz-cheney-statements-by-agents-investigating-trump-could-well-be

Trump feels squeeze in tax return fight
https://thehill.com/policy/finance/445500-trump-feels-squeeze-in-tax-return-fight

POLITICS
President Trump playing into the hands of Democrats will cost him
https://thehill.com/opinion/campaign/445576-president-trump-playing-into-the-hands-of-democrats-will-cost-him

With His Job Gone, an Autoworker Wonders, ???What Am I as a Man????
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/27/us/auto-worker-jobs-lost.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&login=email&auth=login-email

-- 
"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

Ever Faithful
https://townhall.com/columnists/gilgutknecht/2019/05/26/ever-faithful-n2546892?utm_source=thdaily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl&newsletterad=05/26/2019&bcid=3cb4e56ddeac8885c78e874bb1d8f1a4&recip=27077809

Here are at least 244,000 reasons why we celebrate Memorial Day
https://start.att.net/player/category/news/article/usa_today-here_are_at_least_244000_reasons_why_we_celebrate-rgannett

GENERAL INTEREST
Why do some countries drive on the left and others on the right? 
https://www.worldstandards.eu/cars/driving-on-the-left/

Here???s a video of a guy putting a camera on a sushi conveyor belt. It???s wonderful. Every table has a little story!
https://twitter.com/DrewCoffman/status/1129209278114422784

Buck Bed
https://www.facebook.com/100000088246606/posts/2479739308705653?s=1583665152&sfns=mo

Do Not Trust That Stranger???s 5-Star Review
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/25/opinion/sunday/five-star-customer-reviews.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&login=email&auth=login-email

EDUCATION
Tim Cook gives terrible advice to graduates
https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/michael-knowles-tim-cook-gives-terrible-advice-to-graduates

TRAVEL
'If you can't afford it then don't order it'! Defiant manager at 'rip-off' Mykonos restaurant fires back at US tourists hit with $935 check for six plates of calamari, six beers, three salads, water and a tomato juice
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7066637/Outraged-tourists-hit-935-bill-calamari-beers-Mykonos.html

WEATHER
Flooding near Oklahoma City swallowed an entire house. 
https://www.facebook.com/65323249091/posts/wow-flooding-near-oklahoma-city-swallowed-an-entire-house-heavy-rains-have-cause/10156677192164092/

World???s Largest Ice Carousel
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J9lsZ96ET5k

TECHNOLOGY
SpaceX puts up 60 internet satellites
https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-48289204

FOREIGN POLICY
Who Is to Blame for America???s Disturbing Iran Policy?
https://www.nationalreview.com/2019/05/american-policy-iran-trump-obama-congress/?utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=WIR%20-%20Sunday%202019-05-26&utm_term=WIR-Smart

SOCIAL MEDIA
Facebook defends not pulling controversial video of Pelosi
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/facebook-defends-decision-not-to-remove-controversial-video-of-pelosi

BIG BROTHER
CrossFit Warns Those Who Engage In 'Activities Contrary to Prevailing Opinion' to Avoid Facebook
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/timothymeads/2019/05/25/crossfit-warns-those-who-engage-in-activities-contrary-to-prevailing-opinion-to-n2546886?utm_source=thdaily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl&newsletterad=05/26/2019&bcid=3cb4e56ddeac8885c78e874bb1d8f1a4&recip=27077809

IMMIGRATION
A Migrant Family Takes a Greyhound Across America 
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/05/26/us/greyhound-immigration.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share

TRUMPGATE
Ocasio-Cortez slams New York Times for framing of Hope Hicks's 'existential question'
https://news.yahoo.com/ocasio-cortez-slams-new-york-times-for-framing-of-hope-hicks-existential-question-192427352.html

Trump is more extreme on executive privilege than Nixon or Bush
https://thehill.com/opinion/white-house/445398-trump-is-more-extreme-on-executive-privilege-than-nixon-or-bush

Why Mueller may be fighting a public hearing on Capitol Hill
https://thehill.com/opinion/judiciary/445534-why-mueller-may-be-fighting-a-public-hearing-on-capitol-hill

POLITICS
Welcome to Washington???s Silly Season
https://www.nationalreview.com/2019/05/washington-politics-pelosi-trump/?utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=WIR%20-%20Sunday%202019-05-26&utm_term=WIR-Smart

Teflon Joe? Biden brushes off attacks
https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/445424-teflon-joe-biden-brushes-off-attacks

--
"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)