Wednesday, August 7, 2019

PLATT - CURATED NEWS

It???s Not Guns Or Mental Illness. The Problem Is Deeper Than That. 
https://www.dailywire.com/news/50253/walsh-mass-shootings-matt-walsh?utm_source=cnemail&utm_medium=email&utm_content=080619-news&utm_campaign=position1

GENERAL INTEREST
Can the Prairie Generation save rural America?
https://www.csmonitor.com/USA/2019/0729/Can-the-Prairie-Generation-save-rural-America?te=1&nl=morning-briefing&emc=edit_NN_p_20190806&section=whatElse?campaign_id=9&instance_id=11439&segment_id=15908&user_id=534895be791870e2f49b8be32ff6f7ab&regi_id=58935408ion=whatElse

What It's Really Like To Daily Drive A Modern Supercar
https://www.msn.com/en-us/autos/research/what-its-really-like-to-daily-drive-a-modern-supercar/ar-AAFfmYA?ocid=spartandhp

HEALTH
7 Delicious Blue Fruits with Powerful Health Benefits
https://www.ecowatch.com/blue-fruits-powerful-health-benefits-2639608486.html

The Vegetarians Who Turned Into Butchers
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/06/dining/butchers-meat-vegetarian-vegan.html?te=1&nl=evening-briefing&emc=edit_ne_20190806?campaign_id=57&instance_id=11457&segment_id=15931&user_id=534895be791870e2f49b8be32ff6f7ab&regi_id=5893540820190806

HEALTH CARE
Medicare Advantage Can Save Taxpayers Billions???if Waste Is Cut Out
https://townhall.com/columnists/rossmarchand/2019/08/05/medicare-advantage-can-save-taxpayers-billionsif-waste-is-cut-out-n2551194?utm_source=thdaily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl&newsletterad=08/06/2019&bcid=3cb4e56ddeac8885c78e874bb1d8f1a4&recip=27077809

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

TRAVEL
NatGeo Travel
https://email.nationalgeographic.com/H/2/v40000016c681d011d99c3e36e96c566a0/065efa61-c499-4e27-ab65-3d3fc0cb10d0/HTML

Giving Up the Battle for Peak Sunset 
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/06/travel/52-places-to-go-zadar-croatia.html?te=1&nl=evening-briefing&emc=edit_ne_20190806?campaign_id=57&instance_id=11457&segment_id=15931&user_id=534895be791870e2f49b8be32ff6f7ab&regi_id=5893540820190806

EDUCATION
California Education Language Is Newspeak
https://www.wsj.com/articles/california-education-language-is-newspeak-11565027110?emailToken=f44145927a4c0aeaf5fdf2c810467afezOIx0tBgiXUYZSXVKCiznQKMcrZwqw/doAzktmC1Caxletn3JGkXu6PLYLaYRKUOC1gUOZiWzK8MoCLN2RxbGHmjwJ3IbJ/eUwGn5+wUSkg%3D&reflink=article_email_share

FINANCIAL
National Pension Fiasco Merits Real Reform, Not a Bailout 
https://www.nationalreview.com/2019/08/national-pension-fiasco-merits-real-reform-not-bailout/

BUSINESS
Facebook unfriended: the start-ups who rebuffed its crypto offer
https://www.fnlondon.com/articles/inside-facebooks-struggle-to-attract-fintechs-to-libra-20190805

HISTORY
Today's selection -- from The Club by Leo Damrosch.
https://mail.yahoo.com/d/folders/1/messages/AInw5ikm_CWpXUkwzADLIHyZFNc?.intl=us&.lang=en-US&.partner=none&.src=news&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly9uZXdzLnlhaG9vLmNvbS9rYW1hbGEtaGFycmlzLTEtYmlnLXdlYWtuZXNzLTA5NTkwMDI0MC5odG1s&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAAIQRTmVD7R_dmsyxmZc6iuuM70UR7bjwsGHh-UwkuxTjJxLrrkahtZmbk_7c9glX5PsK12BD2pA1jTmuOgcC62L6yh4MozQjSR4nTuAYAEqQwls9a8Q7ucYbu8-KPa7hW6svruDp5okeFvbfEzjc90NUMONFznwU_w03oKnF7fuW

MEDIA
New York Times headline of Trump's remarks on mass shootings ignites backlash
https://www.foxnews.com/media/new-york-times-headline-trump

ENVIRONMENT
A Quarter of Humanity Faces Looming Water Crises
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/08/06/climate/world-water-stress.html?te=1&nl=evening-briefing&emc=edit_ne_20190806?campaign_id=57&instance_id=11457&segment_id=15931&user_id=534895be791870e2f49b8be32ff6f7ab&regi_id=5893540820190806

Bolsonaro Fires Head of Agency Tracking Amazon Deforestation in Brazil
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/02/world/americas/bolsonaro-amazon-deforestation-galvao.html?te=1&nl=evening-briefing&emc=edit_ne_20190806?campaign_id=57&instance_id=11457&segment_id=15931&user_id=534895be791870e2f49b8be32ff6f7ab&regi_id=5893540820190806

ENERGY
If You Want ???Renewable Energy,??? Get Ready to Dig 
https://www.wsj.com/articles/if-you-want-renewable-energy-get-ready-to-dig-11565045328?emailToken=86ef90438fcbe6bb8eeab29789e2c5fdvD5r699skmMwYrqfnn+DcTJs2rnud9YLlJ6QvwZZHFYlC8bYyDn5x+YMN72ajm2FwLyl6EsAMnK8aloDummGZK4Fr+61FHQjjxGIo3A0SuE%3D&reflink=article_email_share

SCIENCE
Science Times
https://static.nytimes.com/email-content/SC_15913.html?campaign_id=34&instance_id=11437&segment_id=15913&user_id=534895be791870e2f49b8be32ff6f7ab&regi_id=58935408&nl=science-times&emc=edit_sc_20190806

Scientists can now manipulate brain cells using smartphone
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2019/08/190805143525.htm

FOREIGN POLICY
Pentagon Says U.S. Will Not ???Overreact??? as North Korea Continues to Fire Missiles 
https://www.nationalreview.com/news/pentagon-says-u-s-will-not-overreact-as-north-korea-continues-to-fire-missiles/

DEFENSE
Iran has hundreds of naval mines. U.S. Navy minesweepers find old dishwashers and car parts.
https://taskandpurpose.com/iran-naval-minesweepers

Iran unveils three new 'precision guided missiles' and warns of the 'mother of all wars' if the US attacks amid tensions in the Gulf
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7325835/Iran-warns-mother-wars-Britain-joins-task-force-Strait-Hormuz.html

China warns of countermeasures if U.S. puts missiles on its 'doorstep'
https://news.yahoo.com/china-counter-u-deployment-intermediate-014010978.html

MILITARY
Air Force commander apologizes for calling airmen who commit suicide 'chickensh*t'
https://taskandpurpose.com/air-force-commander-suicide-chickenshit

Gabbard campaign hits snag with military training hiatus 
https://washingtontimes-dc.newsmemory.com/?token=8262ac2f976323ef93eb060f692ad79d_5d499b6e_5cd1fdb&selDate=20190806&goTo=A03&artid=0&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=washingtontimes-E-Editions&utm_source=washingtontimes&utm_content=Read-Button

LAW AND ORDER
Ohio gunman's ex-classmates decry missed chances to stop him
https://news.yahoo.com/classmates-ohio-shooter-kept-hit-033305480.html

Dayton shooter Connor Betts heard menacing voices, talked about ???evil things???: ex 
https://nypost.com/2019/08/06/dayton-shooter-connor-betts-heard-menacing-voices-talked-about-evil-things-ex/?utm_campaign=iosapp&utm_source=mail_app

Mass Shooting Averted After Grandma Intervenes
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/timothymeads/2019/08/05/mass-shooting-averted-after-suspects-grandmother-intervenes-n2551207?utm_source=thdaily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl&newsletterad=08/06/2019&bcid=3cb4e56ddeac8885c78e874bb1d8f1a4&recip=27077809

Peter Strzok, key figure in Russia probe, sues FBI, DOJ over firing
https://thehill.com/policy/national-security/456399-strzok-key-figure-in-russia-probe-sues-fbi-doj-over-firing

BIG BROTHER
In Praise of the Much-Maligned Nation State 
https://www.wsj.com/articles/in-praise-of-the-much-maligned-nation-state-11565027049?emailToken=276820dc5a01c664f992d901400ae702e2TxsarMBzj7Qzt9Drs+loPcC0P+8U7V8tdTTnFcJ6EyIHQn6O9S7pe3kuH61FDP+dOtBuHzWGL9PUH5IiI6DLuD5CgelwuCVQK9zDqSpC4%3D&reflink=article_email_share









POTUS
The Memo: Obama throws down challenge to Trump [Now, the question is how Trump will respond.]
https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/456466-the-memo-obama-throws-down-challenge-to-trump?userid=288549

POLITICS



Texas faces turbulent political moment
https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/456277-texas-faces-turbulent-political-moment




"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)


DELAYED ....
GENERAL INTEREST
Meet the hero soldier who saved children's lives during the El Paso Walmart shooting 
https://taskandpurpose.com/el-paso-shooting-glendon-oakley

The story behind that photo of the Pinto in front of the Mt. St. Helens eruption
https://www.hemmings.com/blog/2019/07/26/the-story-behind-that-photo-of-the-pinto-in-front-of-the-mt-st-helens-eruption/

One more time
https://static.uglyhedgehog.com/upload/2017/1/18/h1-456416-doc_20170113_wa0013.pdf

The Rock-Hewn Churches of Lalibela
https://www.biblicalarchaeology.org/daily/ancient-cultures/ancient-near-eastern-world/rock-hewn-churches-of-lalibela/

Man Who Buried 42 School Buses To Make Huge Doomsday Shelter Is Finally Showing People The Inside
https://boredomtherapy.com/ark-two-doomsday-bunker/

HEALTH
Tainted Pork, Ill Consumers and an Investigation Thwarted
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/04/health/pork-antibiotic-resistance-salmonella.html?te=1&nl=morning-briefing&emc=edit_nn_20190804?campaign_id=9&instance_id=11401&segment_id=15864&user_id=534895be791870e2f49b8be32ff6f7ab&regi_id=5893540820190804&login=email&auth=login-email

Doctors HALT the menopause: Revolutionary 30-minute procedure delays the process by 20 years and tricks the body clock with ovary tissue implant into armpit
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7318435/Doctors-halt-menopause-Revolutionary-procedure-delays-process-20-years.html

MENTAL HEALTH
Mollycoddling The Circus Freaks 
https://raconteurreport.blogspot.com/2019/08/mollycoddling-circus-freaks.html

PROGRESSIVES UNHINGED
Democratic socialists convention erupts due to 'sensory overload,' gendered pronoun usage
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/democratic-socialists-convention-erupts-due-to-sensory-overload-gendered-pronoun-usage

HUMOR
A dog ate the pole
https://www.facebook.com/HAHALMAO/photos/a.452633051450608/1798167456897154?type=3&sfns=mo

Pizzas in Paradise
https://almatcboykin.wordpress.com/2019/08/03/saturday-short-pizzas-in-paradise/

BUSINESS
When coal jobs leave an Appalachian town, what happens to the families left behind?
https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/markets/when-coal-jobs-leave-an-appalachian-town-what-happens-to-the-families-left-behind/ar-AAF7UKv?ocid=spartandhp

SPORTS
Navy football has dropped its team motto because it's 'insensitive' to mass shooting victims 
https://taskandpurpose.com/navy-football-has-dropped-its-team-motto-because-its-insensitive-to-mass-shooting-victims

WEATHER
Threat of Dam Collapse Continues in England
https://weather.com/news/weather/video/threat-of-dam-collapse-continues-in-england?pl=pl-the-latest

ORNITHOLOGY
Watch Wildlife Officer Rescue Entangled Osprey 60 Feet Up In Air
https://start.att.net/player/article/geobeats-watch_wildlife_officer_rescue_entangled_osprey_60-velephant/category/lifestyle

TECHNOLOGY


Frenchman achieves 'dream' of first hoverboard Channel crossing
https://news.yahoo.com/frenchman-zips-across-channel-flyboard-065607773.html

CYBER SECURITY
Apple credit card gotchas, best free email, private OS and more: Tech Q&A
https://www.foxnews.com/tech/apple-credit-card-gotchas-best-free-email-private-os-and-more-tech-qa

LAW AND ORDER
Feds probing AOC???s chief of staff Saikat Chakrabarti after sudden resignation 
https://nypost.com/2019/08/03/feds-probing-aocs-chief-of-staff-saikat-chakrabarti-after-sudden-resignation/?utm_campaign=iosapp&utm_source=mail_app

'This attack is a response to the Hispanic invasion of Texas': El Paso Walmart shooter Patrick Crusius, 21, posted twisted anti-Mexican manifesto online 20 minutes before storming store with an AK-47, shooting dead 20 people and wounding 26
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7319085/El-Paso-shooter-Patrick-Crusius-21-posted-anti-Mexican-manifesto-online-20-minutes-shooting.html

Vigil honors victims as authorities eye Ohio shooter's life 
https://start.att.net/news/read/article/the_associated_press-at_least_16_hospitalized_as_police_investigate_ohi-ap/category/news

LAW AND THE COURTS
Trump judges face scrutiny over president's cases
https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/456013-trump-judges-face-scrutiny-over-presidents-cases

POLITICS


The House Republicans and Democrats not seeking reelection in 2020
https://thehill.com/homenews/house/456060-the-house-republicans-and-democrats-not-seeking-reelection-in-2020

"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)

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