PLATT - CURATED News

GENERAL INTEREST
Overstock CEO spins an insane Russian-spy drama, with himself as the star
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/overstock-shares-fall-as-ceo-gets-even-more-nutty-and-unpredictable-2019-08-13

New Everest Rules Could Significantly Limit Who Gets to Climb
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/14/world/asia/everest-climbing-rules.html?te=1&nl=evening-briefing&emc=edit_ne_20190814?campaign_id=57&instance_id=11647&segment_id=16162&user_id=534895be791870e2f49b8be32ff6f7ab&regi_id=5893540820190814

In Defense of Barry Manilow 
https://www.nationalreview.com/2019/08/barry-manilow-broadway-residency-delirious-joy/?utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=NR%20Daily%20Monday%20through%20Friday%202019-08-14&utm_term=NRDaily-Smart

HEALTH
Scientists Discover New Cure for the Deadliest Strain of Tuberculosis
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/14/health/tuberculosis-xdr-tb-cure.html?te=1&nl=evening-briefing&emc=edit_ne_20190814?campaign_id=57&instance_id=11647&segment_id=16162&user_id=534895be791870e2f49b8be32ff6f7ab&regi_id=5893540820190814

HEALTH CARE
America???s biggest cancer killer: government???s failure to back screenings
https://nypost.com/2019/08/13/americas-biggest-cancer-killer-governments-failure-to-back-screenings/?utm_campaign=iosapp&utm_source=mail_app

MIND BOGGLING STUPID
WATCH: Students Sign Petition To Ban ???Oppressive??? White Stick Figure In ???Walk??? Signals
https://www.dailywire.com/news/50582/watch-students-sign-petition-ban-oppressive-white-james-barrett?utm_medium=email&utm_content=081419-news&utm_campaign=position1

FINANCIAL
Are markets signalling that a recession is due?
https://www.bbc.com/news/business-49346972

America is facing a pension crisis. Retirees will pay the price if we don't act now 
https://start.att.net/news/read/article/cnn-america_is_facing_a_pension_crisis_retirees_will_p-cnn2/category/finance

ENVIRONMENT
Microplastics are RAINING from the sky onto the Rocky Mountains, new study finds
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-7354081/Microplastics-raining-sky-Rocky-Mountains-new-study-finds.html

NATURE
Today's selection -- from The Truth About Animals by Lucy Cooke. - having sex over 40 times in a single afternoon -- 8/14/19
https://mailchi.mp/delanceyplace.com/6dp7rnt7xk-1147305?e=a218d00c99

New Research Finds Plants Will Feast on Increased CO2, But Only Until 2100
https://www.ecowatch.com/plants-feasting-on-co2-2639802380.html

Black squirrels the result of 'interbreeding' grey squirrels, study finds
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-beds-bucks-herts-49328867

Insect 'apocalypse' in U.S. driven by 50x increase in toxic pesticides
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/environment/2019/08/insect-apocalypse-under-way-toxic-pesticides-agriculture/?cmpid=org=ngp::mc=crm-email::src=ngp::cmp=editorial::add=Science_20190814&rid=8AB81768A9E4FFBB59BE0B699A9A72AD

ENERGY
Can Nuclear Power Be Saved?
https://www.nationalreview.com/2019/08/nuclear-power-clean-reliable-energy-us-should-embrace/?utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=NR%20Daily%20Monday%20through%20Friday%202019-08-14&utm_term=NRDaily-Smart

SCIENCE
Tiny liver grown in the lab. Here's what it can teach us.
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/2019/08/mini-liver-created-researchers-gave-it-disease/?cmpid=org=ngp::mc=crm-email::src=ngp::cmp=editorial::add=Science_20190814&rid=8AB81768A9E4FFBB59BE0B699A9A72AD

TECHNOLOGY
LG smart refrigerator used for tweeting by teen whose mom banned electronics
https://www.foxnews.com/tech/teen-tweets-lg-smart-refrigerator

A New Yorker Called Her Wifi ???oldbayseasoning??? And Old Bay Desperately Wants To Find 
https://www.msn.com/en-us/foodanddrink/restaurantsandnews/a-new-yorker-called-her-wifi-???oldbayseasoning???-and-old-bay-desperately-wants-to-find/ar-AAFCGGL?ocid=spartandhp

DEFENSE
The A-10 Warthog will keep on BRRRTing in the free world for at least another decade 
https://taskandpurpose.com/air-force-a10-warthog-rewinging

The Army's next infantry assault buggy might be a classic 'G.I. Joe' battlewagon
https://taskandpurpose.com/the-armys-next-infantry-assault-buggy-might-be-a-classic-g-i-joe-battlewagon

MILITARY
Marine who sent Nazi imagery to 'Terminal Lance' creator gets busted down to private 
https://taskandpurpose.com/boot-swastika-marine-demoted

LAW AND ORDER
Philadelphia Police Shootings Suspect Surrenders After Nightlong Standoff
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/14/us/philadelphia-shooting-temple-university.html?te=1&nl=evening-briefing&emc=edit_ne_20190814?campaign_id=57&instance_id=11647&segment_id=16162&user_id=534895be791870e2f49b8be32ff6f7ab&regi_id=5893540820190814&login=email&auth=login-email

Autopsy finds broken bones in Jeffrey Epstein???s neck, deepening questions around his death
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime/autopsy-finds-broken-bones-in-jeffrey-epsteins-neck-deepening-questions-around-his-death/ar-AAFPxjP?ocid=spartandhp

MEDIA
Democratic contenders unload on news media
https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/457302-democratic-contenders-unload-on-news-media

IMMIGRATION
Why an Heiress Spent Her Fortune Trying to Keep Immigrants Out
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/14/us/anti-immigration-cordelia-scaife-may.html?te=1&nl=evening-briefing&emc=edit_ne_20190814?campaign_id=57&instance_id=11647&segment_id=16162&user_id=534895be791870e2f49b8be32ff6f7ab&regi_id=5893540820190814

"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)