PLATT - CURATED News

GENERAL INTEREST
The tensions and drama behind the scenes of Trump's campaign to free rapper A$AP Rocky
https://news.yahoo.com/full-story-trump-free-asap-rocky-161654472.html

HEALTH
Entire Population of California Could Fall Victim To Bubonic Plague Due To Homelessness
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2019/05/31/dr_drew_pinsky_entire_population_of_california_could_fall_victim_to_bubonic_plague_due_to_homelessness.html

MIND BOGGLING STUPID
San Francisco rebrands convicted felons as 'justice-involved persons' and ex-cons as 'returning residents' as local officials try to remove the stigma of being a criminal
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7383417/San-Francisco-rebrands-convicted-felons-justice-involved-persons.html

HUMOR
A Snowflake's Guide to Dealing with Criticism 
https://eatonrapidsjoe.blogspot.com/2019/08/a-snowflakes-guide-to-dealing-with.html

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

RantOmatic #7: Eric Raymond of Armed and Dangerous types for me
http://americandigest.org/wp/rantomatic-7-eric-raymond-of-armed-and-dangerous-types-for-me/

EDUCATION
How About RICO Charges for Failing Public School Officials? 
https://www.wsj.com/articles/how-about-rico-charges-for-failing-public-school-officials-11566406273?emailToken=9a174ca0f3f3eb1d0ff5bf864e3c35e6qx3tqV21KrFELP29m5Wq+aNj12rbzJ1eRBNBRhrUTLJ1UwxdazSBmMu7esOPOFcvYvIEKs1Vmi4UeIoasLMHVSMSDUL6Iv94+quCxRc8pmt+CXxe0PXHi76chuYdqIqq&reflink=article_email_share

ECONOMY
U.S. created 501,000 fewer jobs since 2018 than previously reported, new figures show 
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/us-created-500000-fewer-jobs-since-2018-than-previously-reported-new-figures-show-2019-08-21

BUSINESS
Startup hopes to turn NASA funding into big business 
https://washingtontimes-dc.newsmemory.com/?token=09f87a6333a77ff10df15c1bc0062f99_5d5eb39a_5cd1fdb&selDate=20190822&goTo=A14&artid=0&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=washingtontimes-E-Editions&utm_source=washingtontimes&utm_content=Read-Button

ENVIRONMENT
Massive Car Graveyard Found Inside Underground U.K. Cave
https://weather.com/news/trending/video/massive-car-graveyard-found-inside-underground-uk-cave-0?pl=pl-the-latest

Caviar was a free bar snack -- 8/22/19
https://mailchi.mp/delanceyplace.com/caviar-was-a-free-bar-snack-82219?e=a218d00c99

SCIENCE
What is 'blobology' and how is it transforming biology?
https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-49359137

TECHNOLOGY
YouTube pressured to kick Chinese state media ads off platform over misinformation
https://www.foxnews.com/tech/youtube-pressured-chinese-ads-misinformation

CYBER SECURITY
Hi, Alexa. How Do I Stop You From Listening In On Me?
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/21/technology/personaltech/alexa-siri-google-assistant-listen.html?te=1&nl=evening-briefing&emc=edit_ne_20190822?campaign_id=57&instance_id=11844&segment_id=16408&user_id=534895be791870e2f49b8be32ff6f7ab&regi_id=5893540820190822

FOREIGN POLICY
Trump envoy tries to restart nuke talks with North Korea
https://washingtontimes-dc.newsmemory.com/?token=09f87a6333a77ff10df15c1bc0062f99_5d5eb39a_5cd1fdb&selDate=20190822&goTo=A01&artid=1&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=washingtontimes-E-Editions&utm_source=washingtontimes&utm_content=Read-Button

Pompeo praises ???US ally??? Denmark after Trump cancels visit
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-49430537

DEFENSE
Killer ROBOTS will eliminate targets without compassion or ethical judgements if countries continue to develop autonomous weapons, Human Rights Watch warns
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7382829/Killer-ROBOTS-eliminate-targets-without-compassion-ethics-Human-Rights-Watch-warns.html

Iran unveils new long-range missile defence system as President Rouhani warns 'talks with the US are useless'
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7382239/Iran-displays-domestically-built-mobile-missile-defence-system.html

MILITARY
Navy goes on a firing spree: 5 senior leaders canned in past month 
https://taskandpurpose.com/navy-fires-5-senior-leaders

'We are a people organization' ??? Army leaders push renewed focus on soldiers amid rise in sexual assaults and suicides
https://taskandpurpose.com/army-mcconville-mccarthy-personnel

LAW AND ORDER
Attorney General William P. Barr Delivers Remarks at the Grand Lodge Fraternal Order of Police's 64th National Biennial Conference
https://www.justice.gov/opa/speech/attorney-general-william-p-barr-delivers-remarks-grand-lodge-fraternal-order-polices-64th

BIG BROTHER
Customers Handed Over Their DNA. The Company Let the FBI Take a Look. 
https://www.wsj.com/articles/customers-handed-over-their-dna-the-company-let-the-fbi-take-a-look-11566491162?emailToken=9c6c50643d184b27ec13607e19e642b2/hq+I4ZrFc+N1n1a7/eG6BEbgD/J9FZ4GpveuvNYs8WKIHxrrybcJFP2L7cCGcRua97vMdkmc1eDkYgrxttmNz7+IRdpxZOQjaKYsblrWvD0l4eJ2mcz5F0CrzT6wu1y&reflink=article_email_share

Judge Andrew Napolitano: Trump wants to give government permanent authority to spy on everyone in America
https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/judge-andrew-napolitano-more-spying-and-lying

SOCIAL MEDIA
Many Are Abandoning Facebook. These People Have the Opposite Problem.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/22/business/reactivate-facebook-account.html?a&te=1&nl=evening-briefing&emc=edit_ne_20190822?campaign_id=57&instance_id=11844&segment_id=16408&user_id=534895be791870e2f49b8be32ff6f7ab&regi_id=58935408_ne_20190822

MEDIA
How a Conservative News Site Thrived on Facebook and Google 
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/22/us/western-journal-highlights.html?te=1&nl=morning-briefing&emc=edit_NN_p_20190822&section=topNews?campaign_id=9&instance_id=11817&segment_id=16375&user_id=534895be791870e2f49b8be32ff6f7ab&regi_id=58935408tion=topNews&login=email&auth=login-email

A ???Fact Checker??? Declares War On Satire 
https://www.wsj.com/articles/a-fact-checker-declares-war-on-satire-11566428259?emailToken=c63209fb5de6fb87df5d78de9a8fa764YBevDAXYt/wpxAT0H06CypwGVRtenEeyYvxtcyxIQkCPIfcqx6JgFI6ElTbtGyHkqlAl71bEt5/qlPSmIsOhB7nNUfdqXPUza5Fl0aiXIwU%3D&reflink=article_email_share

IMMIGRATION
Migrants are being 'radicalised' by NGOs pushing them to raise their demands, warns UN refugee official after rescue ship trying to dock in Italy snubbed Spanish offer of asylum
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7380195/The-radicalisation-demands-migrants-concern-warns-official.html

BUREAUCRACY
Congress pumps brakes on Interior push to relocate Bureau of Land Management
https://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/458352-congress-pumps-brakes-on-interior-push-to-move-bureau-of-land

POLITICS
For these young socialists, it???s all about local control
https://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Politics/2019/0820/For-these-young-socialists-it-s-all-about-local-control?cmpid=ema:mkt:20190822&src=highlight

Trump's fake accent angers Asian Americans as they veer left
https://news.yahoo.com/trumps-fake-accent-angers-asian-201830232.html

A Wrench in Georgia???s Voting Machine 
https://www.wsj.com/articles/a-wrench-in-georgias-voting-machine-11566427907?emailToken=4faebb1030fa117c0da650a631293d8amx/leTJ6zXPW1OLrZd2958knqfeMQf8dlDDKsiF2Js4DdeLKfbQNRrNoyVpQ91QK0tUe/mbfvK9T43igdbHIWg%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)