PLATT - CURATED News

GENERAL INTEREST
Notre Dame???s reconstruction has already stalled 
https://nypost.com/2019/08/11/notre-dames-reconstruction-has-already-stalled/?utm_campaign=iosapp&utm_source=mail_app

Support Bacon Awareness.... 
https://ninetymilesfromtyranny.blogspot.com/2016/04/support-bacon-awareness.html

Keillor:?? Can't get across the river but we'll try again
http://www.jewishworldreview.com/0819/keillor081219.php3

HEALTH
A Cure for Ebola? Two New Treatments Prove Highly Effective in Congo
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/12/health/ebola-outbreak-cure.html?te=1&nl=evening-briefing&emc=edit_ne_20190812?campaign_id=57&instance_id=11586&segment_id=16101&user_id=534895be791870e2f49b8be32ff6f7ab&regi_id=5893540820190812

Can Food Act as Medicine? All You Need to Know
https://www.ecowatch.com/food-as-medicine-2639741330.html

Alzheimer's Disease Annihilates The Brain Cells That Keep Us Awake, Scientists Believe
https://www.newsweek.com/alzheimers-disease-annihilates-brain-cells-keep-us-awake-scientists-1453243

DNA Data Shared in Ways Patients May Find Surprising 
https://www.wsj.com/articles/deals-give-drugmakers-rights-to-dna-data-11565607602?emailToken=c530350cd0f1f2720f6ad905dd262d1cUGlVNm9VAZT/ID1wUtVGyVD1ko/DFXJSlyF5Cd368rqCXOGwcvsryFg+VowQk8sImabeoIf8phUb7ep3NxGuZSed6RND1TSuTMoXGwjYPyI%3D&reflink=article_email_share

MIND BOGGLING STUPID
Iceberg-Making Submarines to Fight Climate Change?
https://weather.com/science/environment/video/iceberg-making-submarines-to-fight-climate-change?pl=pl-the-latest

Still Chasing Brett Kavanaugh 
See the Wall Street Journal article, below.

HUMOR
The News in Zingers 
http://www.jewishworldreview.com/0819/hamilton.php3

BUSINESS
How Facebook Is Changing to Deal With Scrutiny of Its Power
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/12/technology/facebook-antitrust.html?te=1&nl=morning-briefing&emc=edit_NN_p_20190812&section=longRead?campaign_id=9&instance_id=11567&segment_id=16072&user_id=534895be791870e2f49b8be32ff6f7ab&regi_id=58935408ion=longRead

ENVIRONMENT
Trump Pushed for Mining Project That Could Destroy Alaska Salmon Ecosystems, Despite EPA Opposition
https://www.ecowatch.com/alaska-mining-project-salmon-trump-2639780333.html

U.S. Significantly Weakens Endangered Species Act
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/12/climate/endangered-species-act-changes.html?te=1&nl=evening-briefing&emc=edit_ne_20190812?campaign_id=57&instance_id=11586&segment_id=16101&user_id=534895be791870e2f49b8be32ff6f7ab&regi_id=5893540820190812

WEATHER
Heaviest Snow in Two Decades Falls in Parts of Australia
https://weather.com/storms/winter/video/heaviest-snow-in-two-decades-falls-in-parts-of-australia?pl=pl-the-latest

ARCHAEOLOGY
Ancient Maya practiced 'total war' well before climate stress
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/culture/2019/08/ancient-maya-practiced-total-war-before-drought/?cmpid=org=ngp::mc=crm-email::src=ngp::cmp=editorial::add=History_20190812&rid=8AB81768A9E4FFBB59BE0B699A9A72AD

DEFENSE
U.S. Officials Suspect New Nuclear Missile in Explosion That Killed 7 Russians
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/12/world/europe/russia-nuclear-accident-putin.html?te=1&nl=morning-briefing&emc=edit_NN_p_20190812&section=topNews?campaign_id=9&instance_id=11567&segment_id=16072&user_id=534895be791870e2f49b8be32ff6f7ab&regi_id=58935408tion=topNews&login=email&auth=login-email

Watch Russia's New Strike Drone Take Its First Flight
https://www.popularmechanics.com/military/aviation/a28661365/okhotnik-drone-first-flight/

US Navy to revert back to old-fashioned mechanical throttles after touchscreen controls contributed to 2017 crash which killed 10 sailors on USS John S McCain
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-7348267/US-Navy-revert-old-fashioned-mechanical-throttles-touchscreen-issues.html

LAW AND ORDERIsraeli Lessons For Mass Shootings
https://www.hoover.org/research/israeli-lessons-mass-shootings

Facial recognition tools legally risky for cops 
https://washingtontimes-dc.newsmemory.com/?token=525ee005f6208852c1f7a8e09952a9aa_5d518427_5cd1fdb&selDate=20190812&goTo=A01&artid=3&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=washingtontimes-E-Editions&utm_source=washingtontimes&utm_content=Read-Button

Florida man pleads guilty to ripping off VA program for kids with spina bifida
https://taskandpurpose.com/va-spina-bifida-fraud

thanks, TM ...


He forgot his phone on the bus and was charged for child porn. The arrest may also have thwarted a hate crime, officials say 
http://www.jewishworldreview.com/0819/forgotten_phone_arrest.php3

MILITARY
Stressed out about passing your PT test? The Air Force has got you covered. 
https://taskandpurpose.com/no-stress-air-force-pt

PUERTO RICO
Turmoil calms as Puerto Rico governor turns to policy (Puerto Rico"s debt of $70 billion, if projected across the 50 US states, would be $35 trillion.?? Looks pretty obvious that PR has had a "third world style" incompetent, corrupt government for many years.)
https://news.yahoo.com/puerto-rico-governor-pledges-scrutinize-040803878.html

IMMIGRATION
Trump administration boosts ability to deny green cards to immigrants using welfare programs
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/trump-administration-green-cards-immigrants

POLITICS
On Ferguson, Elizabeth Warren and Kamala Harris Told a Terrible Lie
https://www.nationalreview.com/2019/08/elizabeth-warren-kamala-harris-ferguson-michael-brown/

"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/still-chasing-brett-kavanaugh-11565132661

Still Chasing Brett Kavanaugh

Now Democrats are demanding to see his email inbox from 2003.

By

The Editorial Board

Aug. 6, 2019 7:04 pm ET

Representative Jerry Nadler in Washington, D.C., July 26. Photo: Andrew Harrer/Bloomberg Newsustice

Brett Kavanaugh is nearing a year on the Supreme Court, yet Democrats haven???t stopped trying to undo his confirmation. On Tuesday two Members of the House Judiciary Committee, Jerry Nadler and Hank Johnson, asked the National Archives to produce more files, some dating back 18 years, from Justice Kavanaugh???s time in the White House.Their letter demands more documents than the thousands supplied last year,