PLATT - CURATED NEWS 2020JAN-B

GENERAL INTEREST
Looney Tunes | Roadrunner VS Coyote Compilation | WB Kids
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PkBu-mnXOAk

Cannibal Sandwiches: A Polarizing And Misunderstood Wisconsin Tradition
https://www.wpr.org/cannibal-sandwiches-polarizing-and-misunderstood-wisconsin-tradition

Epic salvage effort saved 230 new Chryslers from U.P. shipwreck
https://www.mlive.com/news/2018/03/how_epic_salvage_effort_saved.html

Cool Clear Water
https://townhall.com/columnists/gilgutknecht/2020/01/05/cool-clear-water-n2558957?utm_source=thdaily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl&newsletterad=01/05/2020&bcid=3cb4e56ddeac8885c78e874bb1d8f1a4&recip=27077809

AVIATION
Boeing has uncovered another potential design flaw with the 737 M
https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/news/boeing-has-uncovered-another-potential-design-flaw-with-the-737-max/ar-BBYDZBH?ocid=spartandhp

ANTHROPOLOGY
Skeleton found in Sierra Mountains revealed to be the ‘ghost of Manzanar’
https://nypost.com/2020/01/04/skeleton-found-in-sierra-mountains-revealed-to-be-the-ghost-of-manzanar/?utm_campaign=iosapp&utm_source=mail_app

METALLURGY
Clusters of gold atoms form peculiar pyramidal shape
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/01/200103141037.htm

PHYSICS
Phonon
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phonon

FOREIGN POLICY
Qassem Soleimani Is Dead: What You Need To Know And What Happens Next
https://nationalinterest.org/blog/middle-east-watch/qassem-soleimani-dead-what-you-need-know-and-what-happens-next-111201

Pompeo on Trump threat to strike Iranian cultural targets: 'We'll behave lawfully'
https://thehill.com/homenews/sunday-talk-shows/476816-pompeo-on-trump-threat-well-behave-lawfully

Defiant Trump doubles down on threat to Iran cultural sites
https://news.yahoo.com/trump-threat-target-iran-cultural-sites-sparks-backlash-185009822.html

NATIONAL SECURITY
Iran identifies 35 US targets in Soleimani revenge plot
https://nypost.com/2020/01/04/iran-identifies-35-us-targets-in-soleimani-revenge-plot/?utm_campaign=iosapp&utm_source=mail_app

Pompeo on Iran retaliation: There may be a little 'noise'
https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/476826-pompeo-on-iran-retaliation-there-may-be-a-little-noise?rnd=1578240922

LAW AND ORDER
In Carlos Ghosn’s Escape, Plotters Exploited an Airport Security Hole
https://www.wsj.com/articles/plotters-exploited-airport-security-hole-in-ghosns-escape-11578270953?emailToken=7ab45bb9a9932e34b2cddd3596dc6a145PPpBb8slxMNh/63udayf8K0LcN2jhLFMTwZ7LxNqlgvrxuzCqbYdJX4DqrRKjGAy3TWHZ1KcsFVKJX7qDl7suQT3nafHd+2TxyT3zFTjkm8xWAVzsjcm3yIEbmiEH1J&reflink=article_email_share

SOLEIMANI KILLING
Schiff: I haven't seen intelligence that 'taking out' Soleimani would 'stop the plotting'
https://thehill.com/homenews/house/476824-schiff-i-havent-seen-intelligence-that-taking-out-soleimani-would-stop-the?rnd=1578240084

Schumer: 'We do not need this president either bumbling or impulsively getting us into a major war'
https://thehill.com/homenews/sunday-talk-shows/476822-schumer-stresses-congressional-approval-we-do-not-need-this

Senate Democrat: [Sen. Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.)] 'We learned the hard way in the Iraq War' that administrations can 'manipulate' intel
https://thehill.com/homenews/sunday-talk-shows/476817-senate-democrat-we-learned-the-hard-way-in-the-iraq-war-that?rnd=1578236784

Buttigieg: No one believes Trump considered all 'consequences' of Soleimani strike
https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/476823-buttigieg-no-one-believes-trump-considered-all-consequences-of-strike?rnd=1578238633

Warren: 'Reasonable to ask' about timing of Soleimani strike ahead of impeachment trial
https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/476821-warren-reasonable-to-ask-about-timing-of-strike-ahead-of-impeachment-trial?rnd=1578237669

IMMIGRATION
Trump administration extends protected status for Yemen
https://www.cnn.com/2020/01/04/politics/yemen-extended-temporary-protected-status/index.html

IMPEACHMENT
Democratic impeachment case collapses under weight of time [Those Democratic voters who supported this premature act will be left to wonder, as did Doctor Seuss, “How did it get so late so soon?”]
https://thehill.com/opinion/judiciary/476745-democratic-impeachment-case-collapses-under-weight-of-time

White House Withholds 20 Emails Between Two Trump Aides on Ukraine Aid
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/03/us/politics/trump-ukraine-military-aid.html?auth=login-email&login=email

POTUS
Trump’s Legal Authority
https://www.wsj.com/articles/trumps-legal-authority-11578095410?emailToken=ba968536d9a2abe49e81f60183a1f3e7sAY5YjMNjWU3BySM0fyjTGwTT+9rlytKLyGPj1HOKW1Mh3iKxB/k32hny6x/k/gGgokbjgU1zPDlAdHve7kz7A%3D%3D&reflink=article_email_share

POLITICS
TOM CRUISE 2020 - RUN TOM RUN (Presidential Campaign Announcement)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Btb8gLy3-E&feature=youtu.be

Biden starts 2020 as the biggest threat to Trump
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/biden-starts-2020-as-the-biggest-threat-to-trump?utm_source=WEX_News%20Brief_01/05/2020&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=WEX_News%20Brief&rid=5044

"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)

GENERAL INTEREST
Locked up bucks
https://biggeekdad.com/2019/12/locked-bucks/

'Alien abduction' caught on doorbell cam
https://nypost.com/video/alien-abduction-caught-on-camera-by-ring-doorbell/?utm_campaign=iosapp&utm_source=mail_app

Joshua Rogers: If your in-laws make you uncomfortable, do what my wife did
https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/in-laws-uncomfortable-wife-joshua-rogers

PHYSICAL HEALTH
Mom says she nearly lost eye after Christmas present she bought son shot into face
https://www.foxnews.com/health/mom-nearly-lost-eye-sons-christmas-present-shot-into-face

Herbal supplements blamed for Texas woman's liver failure
https://www.foxnews.com/health/herbal-supplements-blamed-womans-liver-failure

MENTAL HEALTH
How to Last a Day Without Your Phone
https://www.wsj.com/articles/how-to-last-a-day-without-your-phone-11578079965?emailToken=825737c8bb279636523196a21a95140fdn0Pv6xwUVF0eGy7z5bdWJfv6d9HkvHX6YyyJ/hbX9riMgnPSez5Vf/QuAb2HokGe51dKC2uTEpOGB1glIPc7haJBZVEOcIokHDE2FseqQE%3D&reflink=article_email_share

HEALTH CARE
Democrats ask U.S. Supreme Court to save Obamacare
https://news.yahoo.com/democrats-ask-u-supreme-court-191150513.html?.tsrc=daily_mail&uh_test=2_04

HUMOR
Maxine Waters' phone call with 'Greta Thunberg' was apparently the work of Russian pranksters
https://www.foxnews.com/media/maxine-waters-russian-pranksters-greta-thunberg-trump

DEMOGRAPHICS
‘Ascendant America’ no longer seems a sure bet
https://nypost.com/2020/01/03/ascendant-america-no-longer-seems-a-sure-bet/?utm_campaign=iosapp&utm_source=mail_app

BUSINESS
The Challenges That Working Mothers Still Face
https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-challenges-that-working-mothers-still-face-11578067249?emailToken=73a6eaab3dbdce32f4c7e52f73b0280b6i/CHw9oZoF4pQANZwqZMM7Q1y1fymNR813n525aRzNYiA5IZjtF5AZALyp5i9YmPEnPcvpQEY6vyEccYNDi38FAjwq3LsOHCHh3Iujwc58%3D&reflink=article_email_share

Amazon allegedly threatened to fire employees for criticizing the company — why this matters for all U.S. workers
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/want-to-stage-a-protest-like-google-workers-read-this-first-2018-11-02

WEATHER
Indonesia Seeds Clouds After Flooding Kills 43
https://www.ecowatch.com/indonesia-flooding-cloud-seeding-2643759004.html

ENVIRONMENT
Stunning images from space reveal the shocking extent of Australia's bushfire crisis
https://www.businessinsider.com/australia-wildfires-space-satellite-pictures-smoke-new-zealand-2020-1?utm_source=yahoo.com&utm_medium=referral

Farmers and Salmon Advocates Agree: It’s Time to Talk about the Snake River Dams
https://www.ecowatch.com/snake-river-dams-2643764317.html

Scientists Find a Cleaner Way to Extract Methane From Permafrost
https://www.ecowatch.com/methane-extraction-permafrost-2643757072.html

NATIONAL SECURITY
Homeland Security Sees ‘No Specific, Credible Threat’ From Iran, but Warns of Cyberattacks
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/03/us/politics/homeland-security-iran-threat.html

At Border, Customs Work Includes Taking a Lot of Bologna
https://www.wsj.com/articles/at-border-customs-work-includes-taking-a-lot-of-bologna-11578133800?emailToken=201f758fe36177e80b07223745ea322dcL/3QtQe0bt8vfjcNF6lMP/LkXxTF3UJ7c+tXEpOO21aADcvf+CK4bdyEfe+abNPNLgtpHB39a1tqnWYBLcbkiOr+4svTArbbeVr4ThEFaX6RnBpq496WbcF22P3Pyan&reflink=article_email_share

FOREIGN POLICY
Trump's Ground Game Against Iran
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/03/opinion/trump-iran-suleimani-assassination-baghdad.html?auth=login-email&login=email

Shocking photos show what the US Embassy in Baghdad looked like after it was attacked by swarms of violent protesters
https://www.businessinsider.com/photos-show-aftermath-of-violent-attack-on-us-embassy-iraq-2020-1?utm_source=yahoo.com&utm_medium=referral

Trump threatens to hit 52 Iranian targets 'very fast and very hard'
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/trump-threatens-to-hit-52-iranian-targets-very-fast-and-very-hard-if-country-seeks-revenge?utm_source=breaking_push&utm_medium=app&utm_campaign=push_notifications&utm_source=WEX_News%20Brief_01/04/2020&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=WEX_News%20Brief&rid=5044

A Shocked Iraq Reconsiders Its Relationship With the U.S.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/03/world/middleeast/us-iraq.html

MILITARY
Fighter pilot blacks out at 18,000 feet, wakes up to $2.5M in damage
https://nypost.com/2020/01/03/fighter-pilot-blacks-out-at-18000-feet-wakes-up-to-2-5m-in-damage/?utm_campaign=iosapp&utm_source=mail_app

LAW AND ORDER
NYPD cop caught planting stun gun in car by his own bodycam: lawsuit
https://nypost.com/2020/01/03/nypd-cop-caught-planting-stun-gun-in-car-by-his-own-bodycam-lawsuit/?utm_campaign=iosapp&utm_source=mail_app

Video shows Seattle pizza shop worker attacked in brazen robbery
https://nypost.com/2020/01/03/video-shows-seattle-pizza-shop-worker-attacked-in-brazen-robbery/?utm_campaign=iosapp&utm_source=mail_app

Naked Florida man, high on meth, bites K-9 dog: report
https://nypost.com/2020/01/03/naked-florida-man-high-on-meth-bites-k-9-dog-report/?utm_campaign=iosapp&utm_source=mail_app

MIDDLE EAST
On the precipice: Unknown unknowns in the Middle East, again
https://thehill.com/opinion/national-security/476650-on-the-precipice-unknown-unknowns-in-the-middle-east-again

IRAN
Iranian dissidents hail Soleimani’s death as ‘major, major blow’ for regime in Tehran
https://www.foxnews.com/world/iranian-dissidents-hail-soleimanis-death-as-major-blow-for-regime-in-tehran

Qasem Soleimani: How strong is Iran's military?
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-50982743

IMPEACHMENT
As a former whistleblower, I think the Ukraine complaint is cowardly crock
https://nypost.com/2020/01/03/as-a-former-whistleblower-i-think-the-ukraine-complaint-is-cowardly-crock/?utm_campaign=iosapp&utm_source=mail_app

POLITICS
Bloomberg's business in China has grown - that could create unprecedented entanglements if he is elected president
http://www.jewishworldreview.com/0120/bloomberg_china.php3

Bloomberg rises to third place alongside Warren in national poll
https://thehill.com/hilltv/rising/476689-bloomberg-rises-to-third-place-alongside-warren-in-national-poll

Why Trump starts 2020 poised for reelection
https://nypost.com/2019/12/31/why-trump-starts-2020-poised-for-reelection/?utm_campaign=iosapp&utm_source=mail_app

The Trouble With Heroes in the White House [We don’t need a hero. We just need a president.]
https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-trouble-with-heroes-in-the-white-house-11578070554?emailToken=3e8aa2d7bccd2ca45b8834015e33e116cNZfyojanM6nZQdGU5eM4CJVm9CjFNWYGKWWzc4EaW5WvLTz01l99t0n4lGbTtw+uZN/djMVw3QzKGIU69pPJRiS9P21PN4PHeiZPFo19Hc%3D&reflink=article_email_share

Federal Judge Just Dealt Stacey Abrams Another Big Loss in Georgia
https://www.waynedupree.com/stacy-abrahams-georgia-voter-roll/

"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)