Sunday, June 30, 2019

PLATT- CURATED News


Please Mr. President, Keep Your Powder Dry
https://townhall.com/columnists/paulcurry/2019/06/26/please-mr-president-keep-your-powder-dry-n2549075?utm_source=thdaily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl&newsletterad=06/27/2019&bcid=3cb4e56ddeac8885c78e874bb1d8f1a4&recip=27077809

GENERAL INTEREST
In Defense of ???Bulldozing a Modernist Landmark???
https://www.nationalreview.com/2019/06/frank-lloyd-wright-booth-cottage-demolition/?utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=NR%20Daily%20Monday%20through%20Friday%202019-06-27&utm_term=NRDaily-Smart

Romance among the ???genders???
https://washingtontimes-dc.newsmemory.com/?token=6fce401dec4f7d1d51fcd564f9b30fd9_5d14e039_5cd1fdb&selDate=20190627&goTo=B01&artid=0&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=washingtontimes-E-Editions&utm_source=washingtontimes&utm_content=Read-Button

Google Maps error leaves drivers stranded in field
https://start.att.net/player/article/cnn-google_maps_error_leaves_drivers_stranded_in_field-cnn2/category/lifestyle

PROGRESSIVES UNHINGED
California???s Transgender Prison Policy Is a Disaster for Women
https://www.nationalreview.com/2019/06/californias-transgender-prison-policy-is-a-disaster-for-women/

HUMOR
The News in Zingers
http://jewishworldreview.com/0619/hamilton.php3

SPORTS
Honduras v El Salvador: The football match that kicked off a war
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-48673853

BUSINESS
Wayfair employees walk out over border outrage, and company???s response to backlash is all wrong, experts say (From the comments: "This is moronic. Wayfair is a business and selling much needed furniture to improve conditions of people in need. The left has fallen off the common sense map. Wayfair should let these nut jobs go, they can find better people to work for them.")
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/wayfairs-response-to-employee-outrage-at-sales-to-furnish-migrant-detention-centers-is-wrong-experts-say-2019-06-26

The Libra Gambit
https://www.nationalreview.com/2019/06/facebook-libra-cryptocurrency-consumer-banking/

China's president puts out terms for ending the trade war with the U.S. ??? demanding Trump stop banning Huawei technology and lift permanent tariffs
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7187959/Chinas-president-puts-terms-ending-trade-war-U-S.html

ENVIRONMENT
'A powerful symbol of savagery, cunning and danger': New book pays homage to the might of the wolf with a stunning collection of photographs
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/travel/travel_news/article-7187833/New-book-wolves-pays-homage-wolf-stunning-collection-photographs.html

ENERGY
The US produced more energy from renewable sources than from coal for the first time ever in April - despite President Trump pledging to 'bring coal back'
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7187377/The-produced-energy-renewable-sources-coal-time-April.html

ENTOMOLOGY
Deadly infection turns insects into 'hypersexual ZOMBIES' and causes their limbs and genitals to fall off while the fungus bursts out their abdomens
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-7187219/Deadly-infection-makes-insects-hypersexual-ZOMBIES-causes-limbs-genitals-fall-off.html

TECHNOLOGY
Incredible video reveals the tiny solar-powered 'RoboBEE' which flaps its wings 170 times a second to stay aloft and could be used to monitor the natural environment
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-7187145/Flying-insect-robot-capable-flying.html

Toyota's giant basketball-playing six-foot 10-inch human-like robot nets TWO THOUSAND free throws in a row - earning a Guinness World Record
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-7183091/Toyotas-giant-six-foot-10-inch-human-like-robot-nails-2-020-free-throws-row.html

CYBER SECURITY
Russia denies role in Israeli airport GPS jamming
https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-48786085

Chinese likely behind worldwide attacks on telecommunications providers
https://www.foxnews.com/tech/chinese-attacks-telecommunications-providers

Second Florida city decides to pay ransomware hackers
https://www.foxnews.com/tech/second-florida-city-decides-to-pay-ransomware-hackers

FOREIGN POLICY
US Can Afford to Stay Calm With Iran
https://townhall.com/columnists/victordavishanson/2019/06/27/us-can-afford-to-stay-calm-with-iran-n2549021?utm_source=thdaily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl&newsletterad=06/27/2019&bcid=3cb4e56ddeac8885c78e874bb1d8f1a4&recip=27077809

DEFENSE
Video: the US Army's upgunned Stryker vs. the Russian BTR-80
https://taskandpurpose.com/army-stryker-vs-russia-btr80

LAW AND ORDER
In the Alaska-Yukon wilderness, wildlife crime fighters face a daunting task
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/2019/06/yukon-alaska-wildlife-crime/?cmpid=org=ngp::mc=crm-email::src=ngp::cmp=editorial::add=Animals_20190627::rid=00000000050837301195

LAW AND THE COURTS
SCOTUS Blocks Trump Administration from Including Census Citizenship Question
https://www.nationalreview.com/news/scotus-blocks-donald-trump-administration-from-including-census-citizenship-question/

Retired judge has fought to shed daylight on Jussie Smollett case
http://www.jewishworldreview.com/0619/kass062719.php3

IMMIGRATION
Dems can???t just be outraged, what is their solution to the border tragedy?
https://nypost.com/2019/06/26/dems-cant-just-be-outraged-what-is-their-solution-to-the-border-tragedy/?utm_campaign=iosapp&utm_source=mail_app

Barack???s ICE chief: Cages were Obama???s idea
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/washington-secrets/baracks-ice-chief-cages-were-obamas-idea

POLITICS
Supreme Court finds that courts can't rule on partisan gerrymandering cases
https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/450623-supreme-court-rules-that-courts-cant-rule-in-political-partisan

Why Trump Lost the Census Case
https://www.nationalreview.com/2019/06/why-trump-lost-the-census-case/?utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=NR%20Daily%20Monday%20through%20Friday%202019-06-27&utm_term=NRDaily-Smart

Gabbard was most searched Democratic candidate after debate despite getting third-lowest speaking time
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/gabbard-most-google-searched-democratic-candidate-debate-third-lowest-speaking-time

The Democrats??? Tech Cash Machine?? (Please let me know if you cannot open this.)
https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-democrats-tech-cash-machine-11561589350?emailToken=8dd9bd8648587434296f0c7c18b4e594S5DX6FJ6hmMiMKQQpm9U+AOU5XhilYiz2p4dmFedZWTiZNdKhPQ3fGvCmG5bHUhCwB6/mCOcCxuBbyoHNdKADA%3D%3D&reflink=article_email_share



"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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GENERAL INTEREST
Keillor:?? Trying hard to relax and have fun 
http://www.jewishworldreview.com/0619/keillor062819.php3

HEALTH CARE
Question on health care separates serious from ridiculous 
http://jewishworldreview.com/0619/stromberg062819.php3

PROGRESSIVES RUNNING AMOK
A progressive push to turn teen girls into??? hookers 
https://nypost.com/2019/06/28/a-progressive-push-to-turn-teen-girls-into-hookers/?utm_campaign=iosapp&utm_source=mail_app

ORNITHOLOGY
Millions of Songbirds Do Not Need to Suffer Gruesome Deaths So the Olive Industry Can Save a Buck 
https://www.ecowatch.com/songbirds-deaths-olive-industry-2639015121.html

SCIENCE
U.S. Navy has been granted a patent on theoretical aircraft resembling recently-reported UFOs that could bend the laws of physics to fly through water, air, and space
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-7194019/U-S-Navy-patents-theoretical-ship-bends-physics-speed-air-water-space.html

New type of glass inspired by seashells could pave the way for shatterproof phone screens
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-7193975/New-type-glass-inspired-seashells-pave-way-shatterproof-phone-screens.html

TECHNOLOGY
U.S. Meteorologists 'Deeply Concerned' Over 5G Roll-Out 
https://www.ecowatch.com/us-meteorologists-5g-2639018580.html

Planning to Upgrade from an iPhone 8 Plus? DON???T Install iOS 12.3.2
https://www.idropnews.com/news/planning-to-upgrade-from-an-iphone-8-plus-dont-install-ios-1232/109900/

North Korea releases its own smartphone made by a CHINESE manufacturer that promotes state propaganda sites and blocks access to foreign internet
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-7192985/North-Korea-releases-smartphone.html

A Trump campaign consultant is reportedly making fake websites for Democratic candidates ??? and it's working 
https://start.att.net/news/read/category/news/article/business_insider-a_trump_campaign_consultant_is_reportedly_making_f-newscred2

CYBER SECURITY
4 chilling lessons from a tech hotline scam
https://www.foxnews.com/tech/4-chilling-lessons-from-a-tech-hotline-scam

Tired of Google following you? It is now easier to clear location data thanks to update which automatically clears your history
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-7193379/Tired-Google-following-you.html

MILITARY
Black Hawk pilot receives Distinguished Service Cross for heroically shielding Green Berets from enemy fire
https://taskandpurpose.com/black-hawk-pilot-receives-distinguished-service-cross

Trump keeps talking about the last US military standoff with Iran. Here???s what really happened
https://taskandpurpose.com/farsi-island-incident-us-navy-iran
The Marine Corps has fired its sixth commanding officer in just over 2 months
https://taskandpurpose.com/marine-corps-fort-leavenworth-detachment-commander-fired

LAW AND ORDER
Military court upholds 10-year prison term for ex-Parris Island drill instructor who abused Muslim recruits 
https://taskandpurpose.com/military-court-upholds-10-year-prison-term-for-ex-parris-island-drill-instructor-who-abused-muslim-recruits

SOCIAL MEDIA
TikTok???s Videos Are Goofy. Its Strategy to Dominate Social Media Is Serious. 
https://www.wsj.com/articles/tiktoks-videos-are-goofy-its-strategy-to-dominate-social-media-is-serious-11561780861?emailToken=b999ae0c6916db6f4aee5e9218ced441dGkf46XuyDNHcn0IzzSc+2ZH29G0e7VKTn1352kf4yeu3uMhaLLotjO81Yd5JkvkB8SdR1wShMoMsYwD4s5EjmsPeXbgUotuGDgKaGEOt0Y942DhCrDF9ziGE2KyfYA6DoBJt4qVptrtinwZtoQtcQ%3D%3D&reflink=article_email_share

IMMIGRATION
First footage emerges from inside the controversial Florida detention center for migrant children as HHS secretary blasts 'ignorant statements' from parade of Dem presidential candidates
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7194803/First-footage-emerges-inside-Homestead-detention-center-migrant-children.html

"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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GENERAL INTEREST
News Quiz: Test Your Knowledge of the Week’s Headlines (11 out of 11)
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/06/28/briefing/28weeklynewsquiz.html?te=1&nl=morning-briefing&emc=edit_NN_p_20190628&section=whatElse?campaign_id=9&instance_id=10543&segment_id=14737&user_id=534895be791870e2f49b8be32ff6f7ab&regi_id=58935408ion=whatElse

HEALTH
New basic understanding of how lung cancer spreads: antioxidants implicated
https://medkit.info/2019/06/27/new-basic-understanding-of-how-lung-cancer-spreads-antioxidants-implicated/

Man needs chopstick surgically removed from hand after attempting beer bottle trick, doc says
https://www.foxnews.com/health/man-needs-chopstick-surgically-removed-from-hand-beer-bottle-trick

HEALTH CARE
A Debate Warning for Democrats 
https://www.wsj.com/articles/democrats-and-john-delaneys-dad-11561649812?emailToken=90febfaf32e9a2ea8b3c7df17201df21dbyxp7GFv4l/OWZcT0hSyPbsup40jRpmBx0BNzd8/GM9So2Hv14j2K4Y61fC6WMcSn/stpEyZtY3gq7aPwfzZA%3D%3D&reflink=article_email_share

EDUCATION
What journalism professors are teaching students — about their futures
http://news.rice.edu/2019/06/27/what-journalism-professors-are-teaching-students-about-their-futures-2/

A School With No Heat or Computers but Many College-Bound Students. Mostly Girls.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/27/world/asia/afghanistan-education-girls.html?te=1&nl=morning-briefing&emc=edit_NN_p_20190628&section=longRead?campaign_id=9&instance_id=10543&segment_id=14737&user_id=534895be791870e2f49b8be32ff6f7ab&regi_id=58935408ion=longRead

BUSINESS
A trip to downtown Nordstrom was a fixture of Anchorage life for 44 years. Now, it’s going away.
https://www.adn.com/alaska-news/anchorage/2019/06/27/after-44-years-downtown-a-trip-to-nordstrom-became-part-of-the-ritual-of-anchorage-life/

TAXES
IRS Admits It Encourages Illegals To Steal Social Security Numbers For Taxes
https://www.forbes.com/sites/robertwood/2016/04/13/irs-admits-it-encourages-illegals-to-steal-social-security-numbers-for-taxes/#19bfbe2f4c04

ENTERTAINMENT
"Midway" may be the WWII Navy flick that will help us forget how bad 2001's 'Pearl Harbor' was 
https://taskandpurpose.com/wwii-midway-movie-trailer

Why the Left Was Worried About Our Peter Strzok Play
https://townhall.com/columnists/phelimmcaleer/2019/06/28/why-the-left-was-worried-about-our-peter-strzok-play-n2549139?utm_source=thdaily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl&newsletterad=06/28/2019&bcid=3cb4e56ddeac8885c78e874bb1d8f1a4&recip=27077809

ENERGY
Cuomo’s Silly War on Natural Gas 
https://www.nationalreview.com/2019/06/andrew-cuomo-natural-gas-pipeline-permits-blocked/

Gasoline prices could rise after fire-stricken refinery closes
https://www.apnews.com/7a3c98546ab84ac98af5b23edb956e0e

SCIENCE
Pentagon has developed a laser that can identify subjects from hundreds of meters away based on their HEARTBEAT
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-7189391/Pentagon-developed-laser-identify-subjects-afar-based-HEARTBEAT.html

TECHNOLOGY
Mozilla unveils new privacy tool that lets users create a FAKE browsing history to trick advertisers into thinking they're someone else
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-7188747/New-Mozilla-privacy-tool-lets-users-create-FAKE-browsing-history-trick-advertisers.html

CYBER SECURITY
Support for Windows 7 and Office 2010 ends in 2020
https://www.microsoft.com/en-US/microsoft-365/modern-desktop/business?OCID=AID793798_OLA_22495061_244279685_115184992

FOREIGN POLICY
GOP lawmakers press Trump to cut deal with China at G-20
https://thehill.com/policy/finance/trade/450974-gop-lawmakers-press-trump-to-cut-deal-with-china-at-g-20

Memo to Trump: Trade Bolton for Tulsi 
https://townhall.com/columnists/patbuchanan/2019/06/28/memo-to-trump-trade-bolton-for-tulsi-n2549142?utm_source=thdaily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl&newsletterad=06/28/2019&bcid=3cb4e56ddeac8885c78e874bb1d8f1a4&recip=27077809

DEFENSE
Pentagon selects Fort Drum for missile defense site it has no plan to build 
https://taskandpurpose.com/missile-defense-east-coast

IRAN
Diplomats warn Iran will breach nuclear agreement within days 
https://taskandpurpose.com/iran-nuclear-deal-breach-2639003209

Iran seizes 1,000 Bitcoin mining machines after power spike
https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-48799155

NKOR
Trump offers to meet North Korean leader Kim Jong Un in DMZ
https://thehill.com/policy/international/450816-trump-to-offers-to-visit-dmz-to-meet-kim

IMMIGRATION
Judge blocks Trump from using billions in military funds for border wall
https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/450987-judge-permanently-blocks-trump-from-using-billions-in-military-funds

Pelosi Reverses Course, Will Pass Senate GOP Border Bill. Ocasio-Cortez Explodes.
https://www.dailywire.com/news/48943/pelosi-reverses-course-will-pass-senate-gop-border-ryan-saavedra

Supreme Court to decide whether Trump administration can end DACA program
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/supreme-court-to-decide-whether-trump-administration-can-end-daca-program

Go Home: Acting DHS Secretary Credits Mexico For The 25 Percent Drop In Illegal Border Crossings 
https://mail.yahoo.com/d/folders/70/messages/AGhbpQgSowsMXRZ9FwDW2H4PIP8?.intl=us&.lang=en-US&.partner=none&.src=news&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly9uZXdzLnlhaG9vLmNvbS9oZXJlcy10aGUtb25lLXRoaW5nLWRlbW9jcmF0aWMtY2FuZGlkYXRlcy13YW50LXlvdS10by1yZW1lbWJlci1hYm91dC10aGVtLWFmdGVyLXRvbmlnaHRzLWRlYmF0ZS0wOTAwMDA2OTYuaHRtbA&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAAChS9gb6VSf3m20OA2xsfV4sdkeP0VFUn0G7px4XEo3en0SNujT7NjG_LfALSfQWGKDmO9mYfPIFUjpOnJQ6KAva-66qNoNrlMioX-T2EKUg1VLbFC-RwlmZl1jmam-bf0yyFPzYLTZojjt3TcbSySUDa8w50zNDRDfAhpMvRb3Z

SCOTUS
Bernie Sanders Says He Would ‘Rotate’ Conservative Judges Off the Supreme Court 
https://www.nationalreview.com/news/bernie-sanders-says-he-would-rotate-conservative-judges-off-the-supreme-court/

POLITICS
What Principle Limits Our Public Unions?
https://www.wsj.com/articles/what-principle-limits-our-public-unions-11561665046?emailToken=1d2969d4cbb048caba45ac4a0fa1b391cC5PpDOa8UAKs3zFHPTJMcidLrFlZLzBNBrz2P91ieck+yJZ2GiM358mZYlx6Z18GUxvhDSVRMLENbAckyFUJXCXu46NVdpfzRL8o0WElXM%3D&reflink=article_email_share

House Ethics Committee investigating Gaetz over Cohen threats
https://thehill.com/homenews/house/450907-house-ethics-committee-investigating-rep-gaetz-for-threatening-michael-cohen

House passes election security legislation 225-184 
https://washingtontimes-dc.newsmemory.com/?token=c982965629940542ce4defcd98be7c16_5d1631a7_5cd1fdb&selDate=20190628&goTo=A04&artid=0&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=washingtontimes-E-Editions&utm_source=washingtontimes&utm_content=Read-Button

"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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