PLATT - Curated News

The Triumph of Inequality
https://pjmedia.com/spengler/2017/08/14/the-triumph-of-inequality/

GENERAL INTEREST
??? Michael and Kyle Sherwood, father-and-son funeral directors in Cleveland, Ohio, have opened a niche business: Save My Ink Forever, which preserves the tattoos of people who have died as a memorial for their loved ones.?? The idea for the 2-year-old company came about after a "semi-serious" discussion with a friend about preserving tattoos, according to BBC News.?? "So we started doing some research and blended a few techniques together," Kyle Sherwood said, to develop a technique for long-term preservation of excised skin art.?? The company works with funeral homes in the United States, U.K. and Canada, where the tattoos are surgically removed, then sent to a lab for preservation before being mounted and framed behind UV-protected glass.?? "People put urns on their mantel and to me, my tattoos are more meaningful than an urn on the mantel," Sherwood said. 
[BBC News, 5/3/2019] 

PROGRESSIVES OFF THE RAILS
Making plans from fantasyland 
https://washingtontimes-dc.newsmemory.com/?token=2bafab2ca2bee7375cfbc844c5d98999_5d1b7761_5cd1fdb&selDate=20190702&goTo=B01&artid=1&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=washingtontimes-E-Editions&utm_source=washingtontimes&utm_content=Read-Button

HEALTH
Deep vein thrombosis (DVT)
https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/deep-vein-thrombosis/symptoms-causes/syc-20352557

Risk for Dementia May Increase With Long-Term Use of Certain Medicines
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/25/health/dementia-drugs-anticholinergic.html?em_pos=medium&ref=headline&nl_art=10&te=1&nl=science-times&emc=edit_sc_20190701?campaign_id=34&instance_id=10611&segment_id=14849&user_id=534895be791870e2f49b8be32ff6f7ab&regi_id=58935408emc=edit_sc_20190701

My Son Got Lyme Disease. He???s Totally Fine.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/27/well/live/lyme-disease-children-treatment-diagnosis.html?em_pos=medium&ref=headline&nl_art=15&te=1&nl=science-times&emc=edit_sc_20190701?campaign_id=34&instance_id=10611&segment_id=14849&user_id=534895be791870e2f49b8be32ff6f7ab&regi_id=58935408emc=edit_sc_20190701

HEALTH CARE
Nixing private insurance divides 'Medicare for All' candidates
https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/451263-nixing-private-insurance-divides-medicare-for-all-candidates

SPORTS
How the U.S. Beat England to Reach the World Cup Final
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/02/sports/soccer/usa-vs-england-score.html?te=1&nl=evening-briefing&emc=edit_ne_20190702?campaign_id=57&instance_id=10644&segment_id=14872&user_id=534895be791870e2f49b8be32ff6f7ab&regi_id=5893540820190702

EDUCATION
Entire Bronx Success Academy class aces statewide math exam
https://nypost.com/2019/07/01/entire-bronx-success-academy-class-aces-statewide-math-exam/?utm_campaign=iosapp&utm_source=mail_app

CULTURE
'Real America' Inside the Beltway 
http://www.jewishworldreview.com/0719/zito070219.php3

Pride March and the Contradictions of the New Sexual Revolution 
https://www.nationalreview.com/2019/07/pride-march-contradictions-new-sexual-revolution/?utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=NR%20Daily%20Monday%20through%20Friday%202019-07-02&utm_term=NRDaily-Smart

Trump on blight of homelessness in U.S. cities: 'It's disgraceful'
https://news.yahoo.com/trump-wants-to-tackle-blight-of-homelessness-in-us-cities-its-disgraceful-152511833.html

HUMOR
The Wonky Donkey - Scottish laughing Grandma! (from UNILAD)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yskf94MYM1I

The News in Zingers 
http://www.jewishworldreview.com/0719/hamilton.php3

BUSINESS
Pepsi will start selling canned water ??? but is it more environmentally friendly than plastic water bottles? 
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/pepsi-will-start-selling-canned-water-but-is-more-environmentally-friendly-than-plastic-water-bottles-2019-07-01

Arizona Gov. Ducey to pull Nike plant incentives over reported Colin Kaepernick, Betsy Ross flag flap
https://www.foxnews.com/sports/arizona-ducey-nike-plant-incentives-reported-colin-kaepernick-betsy-ross-flag-flap

Is the Direct Selling Industry Imploding?
https://townhall.com/columnists/stevesherman/2019/07/01/is-the-direct-selling-industry-imploding-n2549253?utm_source=thdaily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl&newsletterad=07/02/2019&bcid=3cb4e56ddeac8885c78e874bb1d8f1a4&recip=27077809

CLIMATE CHANGE
Climate change: Heatwave made 'at least' five times more likely by warming
https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-48838698

ENVIRONMENT
19 iconic trees around the world
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/travel/lists/iconic-trees-around-the-world/?cmpid=org=ngp::mc=crm-email::src=ngp::cmp=editorial::add=Travel_20190702::rid=00000000050837301195

ENTOMOLOGY
Don???t Let the Bedbugs Bite
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/01/science/bedbugs-pesticides.html?ref=headline&nl_art=&te=1&nl=science-times&emc=edit_sc_20190701?campaign_id=34&instance_id=10611&segment_id=14849&user_id=534895be791870e2f49b8be32ff6f7ab&regi_id=58935408edit_sc_20190701

Rise of the SUPER cockroach: Pest is becoming 'near-IMPOSSIBLE' to kill as it rapidly evolves immunity to bug sprays and insecticides
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-7202435/Cockroaches-quickly-HARDER-kill-study-finds.html

TECHNOLOGY
Millennials Are Finally Getting The Giant Roll Of Toilet Paper They Deserve
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/katienotopoulos/charmin-forever-roll-giant-toilet-paper?te=1&nl=morning-briefing&emc=edit_NN_p_20190702&section=whatElse

CYBER SECURITY
Maker of popular smart-home software continues to leave database containing billions of users' passwords OPEN online, report reveals
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-7202675/Maker-smart-home-software-continues-leave-database-containing-users-passwords-OPEN-online.html

DEFENSE
Why Iran Loves the F-14 Tomcat (And Passed on the F-15 Eagle)
https://nationalinterest.org/blog/buzz/why-iran-loves-f-14-tomcat-and-passed-f-15-eagle-65066

MILITARY
Navy SEAL Eddie Gallagher found not guilty of murder in war crimes case
https://thehill.com/policy/defense/451440-jury-finds-navy-seal-eddie-gallagher-not-guilty-in-war-crimes-case

LAW AND ORDER
Portland???s mayor has turned his city over to Antifa thugs
https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/todd-starnes-antifa-portland-mayor

BIG BROTHER
China Snares Tourists??? Phones in Surveillance Dragnet by Adding Secret App
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/02/technology/china-xinjiang-app.html?te=1&nl=evening-briefing&emc=edit_ne_20190702?campaign_id=57&instance_id=10644&segment_id=14872&user_id=534895be791870e2f49b8be32ff6f7ab&regi_id=5893540820190702

IRAN
To Evade Sanctions on Iran, Ships Vanish in Plain Sight
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/02/world/middleeast/china-oil-iran-sanctions.html?te=1&nl=morning-briefing&emc=edit_NN_p_20190702&section=topNews?campaign_id=9&instance_id=10623&segment_id=14844&user_id=534895be791870e2f49b8be32ff6f7ab&regi_id=58935408tion=topNews&login=email&auth=login-email

RUSSIA
Fourteen Russian sailors die in fire on 'nuclear-powered' submarine
https://news.yahoo.com/fourteen-russian-submariners-die-fire-135001791.html

VENEZUELA
Boy, 16, is blinded in both eyes after he is shot in the face by police as chaos mounts over gas shortages in Maduro's Venezuela
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7204355/Boy-16-blinded-eyes-shot-face-police-Maduros-Venezuela.html

IMMIGRATION
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez describes ???horrifying??? conditions at migrant detention facilities
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-describes-horrifying-conditions-at-migrant-detention-facilities-2019-07-01

AOC responds to border officers who felt ???threatened??? by her
https://nypost.com/2019/07/02/aoc-responds-to-border-officers-who-felt-threatened-by-her/?utm_campaign=iosapp&utm_source=mail_app

POLITICS
No one makes the President as unsteady as Kamala Harris does 
http://www.jewishworldreview.com/0719/abernathy070219.php3

Democrats, Beware of Andrew Yang???s Insane Vision for America
https://news.yahoo.com/democrats-beware-andrew-yang-insane-083940753.html

Harris surges to second in new national poll
https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/451385-harris-surges-to-second-place-in-quinnipiac-poll

Twenty Things You Probably Didn???t Know about Marianne Williamson 
https://www.nationalreview.com/2019/07/twenty-things-you-probably-didnt-know-about-marianne-williamson/

"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)