Thursday, May 30, 2019

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

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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)


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