PLATT - CURATED News

GENERAL INTEREST
Politician's $13 million supercar stash seized in corruption probes to be auctioned for charity
https://www.foxnews.com/auto/politicians-13-million-supercar-stash-seized-in-money-laundering-probe-to-be-auctioned-for-charity

Fourth of July Quiz: Can You Answer the Hardest Citizenship Test Questions??? (8/10)
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/07/03/us/us-citizenship-test-quiz.html?te=1&login=email&auth=login-email

HEALTH
Walking This Much Every Day Could Reduce Your Dementia Risk 
https://start.att.net/news/read/article/cooking_light-walking_this_much_every_day_could_reduce_your_deme-rtime/category/lifestyle

ECOLOGY
Arctic fox astounds scientists by walking 2,100 miles in 76 days
https://www.mnn.com/earth-matters/animals/blogs/arctic-fox-walks-2100-miles-76-days?utm_source=Weekly+Newsletter&utm_campaign=15dd811c0c-RSS_EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_WED0703_2019&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_fcbff2e256-15dd811c0c-41356281

Florida encourages homeowners to kill green iguanas ???on their own property???
https://www.foxnews.com/us/florida-encourages-homeowners-to-kill-green-iguanas-on-their-own-property

CLIMATE CHANGE
Climate change: Antarctic Peninsula 'can still avoid irreversible change'
https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-48840528

SCIENCE
Scientists warn against creating human-monkey HYBRIDS as calls rise to create the chimeras to help treat diseases like Alzheimer's
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-7208461/Scientists-warn-against-creating-human-monkey-HYBRIDS-calls-rise-create-chimeras.html

Physicists discover croissant-shaped twists of light
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/2019/06/physicists-discover-croissant-shaped-twists-of-light-new-property-optics/?cmpid=org=ngp::mc=crm-email::src=ngp::cmp=editorial::add=Science_20190703::rid=00000000050837301195

FORESTRY
A legendary Ozark chestnut tree, thought extinct, is rediscovered
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/environment/2019/06/saving-chestnut-trees-ozarks/?cmpid=org=ngp::mc=crm-email::src=ngp::cmp=editorial::add=Science_20190703::rid=00000000050837301195

TECHNOLOGY
What is Microsoft up to now? Firm tweets bizarre teaser for retro Windows 1.0 software that came out in 1985 and erases all other posts from Instagram
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-7205363/What-Microsoft-Firm-tweets-bizarre-teaser-Windows-1-0-came-1985.html

Bitcoin's energy consumption 'equals that of Switzerland'
https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-48853230

DEFENSE
Air Force A-10 gets hit by bird, 'inadvertently' drops 3 dummy bombs in Florida 
https://taskandpurpose.com/a10-bird-strike

LAW AND ORDER
Eric Swalwell joins Andrew Yang as the only 2020 Dems to condemn Antifa attack on journalist
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/eric-swalwell-andrew-yang-andy-ngo-antifa

TERRORISM
Al-Qaida is stronger today than it was on 9/11 
https://taskandpurpose.com/al-qaeda-gwot-growth

IMMIGRATION
Obama DHS chief blasts Dems??? ???open borders??? push, warns migration would explode
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/obama-dhs-chief-blasts-dems-open-borders-push-warns-migration-would-explode

White House Slams Judge for Inflicting ???Open-Borders Views??? on Country 
https://www.nationalreview.com/news/white-house-slams-judge-for-inflicting-open-borders-views-on-country/

REPORT: 35,000 MORE Africans on way to US via South America
http://www.theamericanmirror.com/report-35000-more-africans-on-way-to-us-via-south-america/

CENSUS
DOJ reverses, says it's trying to find ways to include citizenship question on 2020 census
https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/451639-doj-ordered-to-find-ways-to-include-citizenship-question-on-2020

TRUMPGATE
Insinuendo: Why the Mueller Report Doth Repeat So Much
https://www.realclearinvestigations.com/articles/2019/06/28/insinuendo_why_the_muller_report_doth_repeat_so_much_.html

POLITICS
Dems' leftward turn was a reaction to Hillary Clinton 
http://www.jewishworldreview.com/cols/jonah070319.php3

Kamala Harris Thinks That Busing in 2019 Would Be a Good Idea ??? Seriously 
https://www.nationalreview.com/2019/07/kamala-harris-busing-democratic-debate/

"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)