PLATT - CURATED News

GENERAL INTEREST
Our Brush With Google Censorship
See the third Wall Street Journal article, below.

HEALTH
High Levels of Sunscreen Ingredients End Up in the Bloodstream 
http://www.emergencyemail.org/newsemergency/anmviewer.asp?a=17236&z=58

WHO AFRO - Situation Report - Ebola Virus Disease Outbreak in DRC - Sitrep 40 (2019)
http://newsletters.afro.who.int/outbreak-dashboards/1266wklh5zy1hj3oiwqrmm?email=true&a=11&p=54967184

Texas Republican Says Vaccines Are ‘Sorcery’ 
https://start.att.net/news/read/article/newsweek-texas_republican_says_vaccines_are_sorcery-rnewsweek/category/news+

PARENTING
My 6-year-old isn't grieving his grandpa. Should I be worried? 
http://www.jewishworldreview.com/0519/child_not_mourning.php3

PROGRESSIVES UNHINGED
How Seattle’s elite brushes off violent homeless crime 
https://nypost.com/2019/05/06/how-seattles-elite-brushes-off-violent-homeless-crime/?utm_campaign=iosapp&utm_source=mail_app

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

ENVIRONMENT
GREAT PLACES - NORTH AMERICA
http://m.act.nature.org/rest/head/mirrorPage/@FgTbojVenn69KTqJKrP2jLlD5hzYnmhFaTxBmjVPGJ1UyqlHDygXJUAG4PfBPsuO46BkDRPxRQSpfdp-qoWG6OC_21k4_LKG8RlS9U13sorLnXSZ.html?lu=4913699&deliveryName=DM30227

A NJ Politician Wants To Ban Paper and Plastic Bags, but He Should Think Twice 
https://www.nationalreview.com/2019/05/new-jersey-paper-plastic-bag-ban-government-intervention-unintended-consequences/?utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=NR%20Daily%20Monday%20through%20Friday%202019-05-08&utm_term=NRDaily-Smart

Scientists: We've Found the 'Holy Grail' of Recycling 
https://www.newser.com/story/274920/scientists-heres-the-25t-holy-grail.html?utm_source=part&utm_medium=att&utm_campaign=rss_science_syn

ENTOMOLOGY
thanks, DW ...

Wasps are the first insects to display a type of reasoning and show complex social behaviour, claim scientists
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-7004111/Wasps-insects-display-type-reasoning.html

PHYSICS
For a Split Second, a (Simulated) Particle Went Backward in Time
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/08/science/quantum-physics-time.html?emc=edit_ne_20190508&nl=evening-briefing&nlid=5893540820190508&te=1

DEFENSE
The Marine Corps can’t make boot camp completely gender integrated, outgoing commandant says 
https://taskandpurpose.com/marine-boot-camp-not-integrated

NATIONAL SECURITY
Pentagon Says It Now Has Money for 256 More Miles of Border Wall 
https://www.nationalreview.com/news/pentagon-says-it-now-has-money-for-256-more-miles-of-border-wall/?utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=NR%20Daily%20Monday%20through%20Friday%202019-05-08&utm_term=NRDaily-Smart

A cyberattack just disrupted grid operations in the US. But it could have been far worse 
http://jewishworldreview.com/0519/disrupted_grid.php3

LAW AND ORDER
More than $40 million in bitcoin stolen in hack of world’s biggest cryptocurrency exchange 
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/more-than-40-million-in-bitcoin-stolen-in-hack-of-worlds-biggest-cryptocurrency-exchange-2019-05-08

IRAN
Trump imposes fresh sanctions on Iran amid new standoff
https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/442742-trump-administration-imposes-fresh-sanctions-on-irans-metals

VENEZUELA
Russian Collusion in Venezuela
See the second Wall Street Journal article, below.

Deputy of Venezuela's Guaido arrested and dragged away by tow truck
https://www.yahoo.com/news/venezuelas-guaido-says-deputy-detained-intelligence-agents-000518737.html

IMMIGRATION
Keeping Fake Illegal Alien Families Together
https://townhall.com/columnists/michellemalkin/2019/05/08/keeping-fake-illegal-alien-families-together-n2546006?utm_source=thdaily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl&newsletterad=05/08/2019&bcid=3cb4e56ddeac8885c78e874bb1d8f1a4&recip=27077809

RUSSIAGATE
Attempt to hack email server stunned Clinton aide, FBI files show
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/attempt-to-hack-email-server-stunned-clinton-aide-fbi-files-show

SPYGATE
James Comey is in trouble and he knows it
https://thehill.com/opinion/judiciary/442278-james-comey-is-in-trouble-and-he-knows-it

Why FBI Director Christopher Wray won’t use the term ‘spying’ 
https://nypost.com/2019/05/07/why-fbi-director-christopher-wray-wont-use-the-term-spying/?utm_campaign=iosapp&utm_source=mail_app

Motive Matters in Trump Spygate
See the first Wall Street Journal article, below.

TRUMPGATE
Democrats Accuse AG Barr of Doing Exactly What Eric Holder and Loretta Lynch Did for Obama
https://pjmedia.com/trending/democrats-accuse-attorney-general-barr-of-being-eric-holder-and-loretta-lynch/

Barr’s handling of Mueller report gets little support in poll | Democrats threaten salaries of Trump officials who block interviews 
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/barrs-handling-of-mueller-report-gets-little-support-in-poll-democrats-threaten-salaries-of-trump-officials-who-block-interviews-2019-05-08

Gowdy: Mueller Not Allowed to Discuss Derogatory Information on Unindicted Person, Per DOJ Policy
https://pjmedia.com/video/gowdy-mueller-not-allowed-to-discuss-derogatory-information-on-unindicted-person-per-doj-policy/?utm_source=pjmedia&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl_pm&newsletterad=&bcid=a170a739e3c2ef76a5336e09a4afd688&recip=28441254

TRUMP TAXES
Opinion: Art of the loss — what blowing a billion tells us about Trump 
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/art-of-the-loss-what-blowing-a-billion-tells-us-about-trump-2019-05-08

Trump calls report that he lost $1B in bad deals ‘Fake News hit job’ 
https://nypost.com/2019/05/08/trump-calls-report-that-he-lost-1b-in-bad-deals-fake-news-hit-job/?utm_campaign=iosapp&utm_source=mail_app

NYT:  5 Takeaways From 10 Years of Trump Tax Figures [... from someone who had legal access to them ... 1995 tax returns, pages of which were mailed anonymously ...]
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/07/us/trump-tax-figures.html?login=email&auth=login-email

Trump Freely Admits in Old Video: 'I Was Billions of Dollars in Debt' About 13 Years Ago [ ... Strangely enough, Trump's admission that he lost billions of dollars, wasn't a bombshell at the time.  The big story in the Times in October 1995, in fact, was that Trump was the "Comeback King": ...]
https://pjmedia.com/video/trump-admits-in-old-video-i-was-billions-of-dollars-in-debt-about-13-years-ago/

NY Senate Passes Bill Allowing Congress Access to Trump’s State Tax Returns 
https://www.nationalreview.com/news/ny-senate-passes-bill-allowing-congress-access-to-trumps-state-tax-returns/?utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=NR%20Daily%20Monday%20through%20Friday%202019-05-08&utm_term=NRDaily-Smart

POLITICS
DNC faces new debate minefield
https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/442622-dnc-faces-new-debate-minefield

Congress as Inspector Clouseau
https://townhall.com/columnists/johnandandyschlafly/2019/05/08/congress-as-inspector-clouseau-n2546004?utm_source=thdaily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl&newsletterad=05/08/2019&bcid=3cb4e56ddeac8885c78e874bb1d8f1a4&recip=27077809

-- 
"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/motive-matters-in-trump-spygate-11557268983?emailToken=5cead39aee057c44e11df26ed6d1b2258NxQppaZXjCAfkSEuPlvFH6thOcp3ROq7gW4DRPfL6n+MWH6o4Kr4ImxZeHCda4OP3QLESexYZjKdd8OT+Cjxw%3D%3D&reflink=article_email_share

Motive Matters in Trump Spygate

When intelligence actions are launched for political effect, we’re in trouble.

By

Holman W. Jenkins, Jr.

May 7, 2019 6:43 p.m. ET

The FBI headquarters in Washington, Nov. 2, 2016. Photo: Cliff Owen/Associated Press

For the better part of two years I’ve been saying, in principle, that the Federal Bureau of Investigation was not wrong to be concerned about the Russians exploiting peripheral Trump campaign figures as witting or unwitting agents. As long as such spying remained discreet and unknown to the public, it could not have influenced the election. Of courses there’s a caveat: if such spying was ordered up on a flimsy premise to legitimize internally a story line about Trump-Russia connections that Obama administration officials would then try to peddle to the public through leaks.

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