2YONDER - (and beyond)

Wednesday, November 6, 2019

PLATT - CURATED News

GENERAL INTEREST
???Grit??? more important to success than brains and brawn, West Point study finds
https://nypost.com/2019/11/04/grit-more-important-to-success-than-brains-and-brawn-west-point-study-finds/?utm_campaign=iosapp&utm_source=mail_app

The Importance of 'No-Men'
https://patriotpost.us/opinion/66577?mailing_id=4633&utm_medium=email&utm_source=pp.email.4633&utm_campaign=snapshot&utm_content=body

Adulting 101
http://jewishworldreview.com/1119/mullen110519.php3

HEALTH CARE
States??? Attempts at Medicare-for-All Proposals Haven???t Ended Well
https://www.wsj.com/articles/states-attempts-at-medicare-for-all-proposals-havent-ended-well-11572957714?emailToken=ef23c7a6497679fb9b5e8ba0041dfc18EqfnfjiQdVRby3GU6Z3E1izlOz7xu2jQjYzWbuidiPOmuXV2KKfrq90FijTIo1DD0HTEAvG3Y8SYfcahgmW5QN7WgqBB0EjMV8gdPvAIPjt9kvhiJ5xkS4yveZ5TKWnO&reflink=article_email_share

CULTURE
Video: A Tale of Men and Masculinity
https://patriotpost.us/articles/66560?mailing_id=4633&utm_medium=email&utm_source=pp.email.4633&utm_campaign=snapshot&utm_content=body

Wild brawl over a man leaves 9 floors of an apartment complex flooded
https://nypost.com/2019/11/04/wild-brawl-over-a-man-leaves-9-floors-of-an-apartment-complex-flooded/?utm_campaign=iosapp&utm_source=mail_app

HUMOR
The News in Zingers
http://www.jewishworldreview.com/1119/hamilton110519.php3

HISTORY
Hern??n Cortes, slaves, and the encomienda -- 11/05/19
https://mailchi.mp/delanceyplace.com/goodyear-worked-on-his-rubber-invention-in-debtors-prison-1147997?e=a218d00c99

BUSINESS
Your hardwood floor was probably harvested illegally
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/odds-are-strong-your-hardwood-floor-was-harvested-illegally-2019-11-04

Stop the States??? Copyright Plunder
https://www.wsj.com/articles/stop-the-states-copyright-plunder-11572909070?emailToken=7a55e92f03fdcc7db9ca76f69d4986e7HD7Vy66IaW/d7N9DoiuJM635yLFJjD3giDG54T880g6utyPHwpimszScfVkcEXrU7fLrBih6+iHA6NjG25qBEg%3D%3D&reflink=article_email_share

AUTOMOTIVE
The 10 coolest things about the all-new 2020 Land Rover Defender
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/the-10-coolest-things-about-the-new-2020-land-rover-defender-2019-11-05

SCIENCE
NYT Science Times: Stalking the Endangered Wax Palm (...and, much more ...)
https://messaging-custom-newsletters.nytimes.com/template/oakv2?uri=nyt://newsletter/f36301d2-1823-4dd7-ae4d-f9f7f31840cd&te=1&nl=science-times&emc=edit_sc_20191105?campaign_id=34&instance_id=13613&segment_id=18522&user_id=534895be791870e2f49b8be32ff6f7ab&regi_id=58935408

SPACE
Our universe may be a giant loop, new study claims
https://www.foxnews.com/science/universe-giant-loop-balloon-new-study

NATIONAL SECURITY
Where???s the fire?
https://federalobserver.com/2019/09/wheres-the-fire/

Coming Soon To A Neighborhood Near You
https://www.captainsjournal.com/2019/11/04/coming-soon-to-a-neighborhood-near-you/

Russia Steps Up Efforts to Shield Its Hackers From Extradition to U.S.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/russia-steps-up-efforts-to-shield-its-hackers-from-extradition-to-u-s-11572949802?emailToken=f408da0a24fd4c5de942cfe0905400cdfzxbWeBhCiJjJ/errBh9KxgNG8EDbbsWvFYtPXxaPvrHBf+t8LDMSvEfsQKAGRzZwQPDcA2SuceLfe2RW5Gzh+Qo/QZ7TRPr7691RRO84osB26GLW5aHqTiRUY621RyD9ZzVTsuLgdCV/KgEHAwVaA%3D%3D&reflink=article_email_share

DEFENSE
Military Readiness Isn't What It Should Be
https://patriotpost.us/articles/66579?mailing_id=4633&utm_medium=email&utm_source=pp.email.4633&utm_campaign=snapshot&utm_content=body

North Korea Hates This: Meet South Korea's Very Special F-15 Fighter
https://nationalinterest.org/blog/buzz/north-korea-hates-meet-south-koreas-very-special-f-15-fighter-93581

Army plans 'lase-off' competition to incinerate targets with lasers fired from Strykers
https://www.foxnews.com/science/army-plans-lase-off-competition-to-incinerate-targets-with-lasers-fired-from-strykers

LAW AND THE COURTS
Free Lori Loughlin
https://www.wsj.com/articles/free-lori-loughlin-11572909225?emailToken=f9ab9e41452ddf6db2becff518befbf2l81W3XIEfOb3h6evHgQTJqIU8eabtL7L38hUigeMdXuc+YQauM401eLLjl3z7+sF&reflink=article_email_share

BIG BROTHER
???Game-Changer??? Warrant Let Detective Search Genetic Database
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/05/business/dna-database-search-warrant.html?te=1&nl=evening-briefing&emc=edit_ne_20191105?campaign_id=57&instance_id=13642&segment_id=18548&user_id=534895be791870e2f49b8be32ff6f7ab&regi_id=58935408

IRAN
Iran to inject uranium into centrifuges, moving further from 2015 nuclear accord
https://nypost.com/2019/11/05/iran-to-inject-uranium-into-centrifuges-moving-further-from-2015-nuclear-accord/?utm_campaign=iosapp&utm_source=mail_app

POLITICS
Play-nice approach of 2020 Democrats threatens to hand Trump a reelection advantage
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/play-nice-approach-of-2020-democrats-threatens-to-hand-trump-a-reelection-advantage?utm_source=breaking_push&utm_medium=app&utm_campaign=push_notifications&utm_source=WEX_News%20Brief_11/05/2019&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=WEX_News%20Brief&rid=5044

Democrats unifying against Joe Kennedy Senate bid
https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/468941-democrats-unifying-against-joe-kennedy-senate-bid

"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)

Tuesday, November 5, 2019

PLATT - CURATED News

GENERAL INTEREST
Follow Michael Crichton’s Rule
https://www.wsj.com/articles/follow-michael-crichtons-rule-11572814056?emailToken=6daec9130769573b10c65241cdb4ece4JImYhwldJEFq4UCpYQkIiKj4TClTqWqofW6wut4XY64VgVoiVu03suC1fUnO4ida80Cug6DTI/d/Fg7Q2Y8KqQ%3D%3D&reflink=article_email_share

40 years later, the victims of the Iran hostage crisis still haven't received the compensation they were promised
https://taskandpurpose.com/iran-hostage-crisis-payment

He Left His 310-Year-Old Violin on a Train. He Retrieved It in a Parking Lot.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/03/world/europe/violin-london-stephen-morris.html?te=1&nl=morning-briefing&emc=edit_NN_p_20191104&section=whatElse?campaign_id=9&instance_id=13590&segment_id=18493&user_id=534895be791870e2f49b8be32ff6f7ab&regi_id=58935408ion=whatElse

HEALTH
Food can help control some chronic conditions, in some cases eliminating need for drugs
http://www.jewishworldreview.com/1119/food_no_drugs.php3

WHO AFRO - Outbreaks and Emergencies Bulletin - Week 44/2019
http://newsletters.afro.who.int/outbreaks-weekly-bulletin/bsfa8jzujq41hj3oiwqrmm?email=true&a=11&p=55911376

CULTURE
Actually, the Problem Is ‘Humansplaining’
https://www.wsj.com/articles/actually-the-problem-is-humansplaining-11572813585?emailToken=d62c960d861b2423f46f0eea58e1e47aAWusP/zcnXKs64PXqwb7eerYuKqJMO8ek0A6yymm0vzNoOIeZU4A2Xdj4NWdc5kR8MwwFEaekjAg2iHeCECadr+kUuA+0wvnk375EHThkes%3D&reflink=article_email_share

Parents are now using tracking apps to watch their kids at college
http://www.jewishworldreview.com/1119/parents_tracking_their_college_kids.php3

HUMOR
The News in Zingers
http://www.jewishworldreview.com/1119/hamilton110419.php3

FINANCIAL
This couple’s $161,000 in student-loan debt was forgiven after their applications were rejected — here’s how they did it
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/this-couples-161000-in-student-loan-debt-was-forgiven-heres-how-they-did-it-2019-11-04

HISTORY
Andrew Jackson, America's seventh president -- 11/4/19
https://mailchi.mp/delanceyplace.com/8519-1147101?e=a218d00c99

BUSINESS
The Key to Electric Cars Is Batteries. One Chinese Firm Dominates the Industry.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/how-china-positioned-itself-to-dominate-the-future-of-electric-cars-11572804489?emailToken=4f4f6bda0c1941531fec5aee4206eca6hUyj4EQcnPTi2o8XFJGwHmk/hHkPAqfXvjYXAy3zvS118r9XHeLAPGoC5JMfBI8x3Av0mFQPHmm5MGwFISkrw+3ZX4h4k+z07hgG/xVGZQ1f/mUFkPRPPkrnDLfBKRfY&reflink=article_email_share

No-one understood our idea, but now it's worth over $1bn
https://www.bbc.com/news/business-50138290

SPACE
Boeing’s Starliner Spacecraft Touches Down After Test of Safety System
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/04/science/space/nasa-boeing-starliner-tes.html?te=1&nl=evening-briefing&emc=edit_ne_20191104?campaign_id=57&instance_id=13601&segment_id=18509&user_id=534895be791870e2f49b8be32ff6f7ab&regi_id=58935408

ENVIRONMENT
Bat Populations Are Shrinking. Here Are A Few Ways to Help
https://www.ecowatch.com/how-to-help-bat-populations-2641205743.html

HYMENOPTEROLOGY
One Million Cannibal Ants Trapped in Soviet Nuclear Bunker Have Escaped
https://www.newsweek.com/cannibal-ants-soviet-nuclear-bunker-1469573

CYBER SECURITY
With a Laser, Researchers Say They Can Hack Alexa, Google Home or Siri
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/04/technology/digital-assistant-laser-hack.html?te=1&nl=evening-briefing&emc=edit_ne_20191104?campaign_id=57&instance_id=13601&segment_id=18509&user_id=534895be791870e2f49b8be32ff6f7ab&regi_id=58935408

LAW AND ORDER
These Machines Can Put You in Jail. Don’t Trust Them.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/03/business/drunk-driving-breathalyzer.html?auth=login-email&emc=edit_NN_p_20191104&instance_id=13590&login=email&nl=morning-briefing&regi_id=58935408tion%3DtopNews&section=topNews%3Fcampaign_id%3D9&segment_id=18493&te=1&user_id=534895be791870e2f49b8be32ff6f7ab

AIRBNB SCAM
I Accidentally Uncovered a Nationwide Scam on Airbnb
https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/43k7z3/nationwide-fake-host-scam-on-airbnb

LAW AND THE COURTS
He beat the odds at the Supreme Court --- it cost $1.5 million. Here's how he did it
http://www.jewishworldreview.com/1119/rbarnes110419.php3

MILITARY
It’s not bias to ask if Trump and the Pentagon know what they are doing
https://taskandpurpose.com/questioning-trump-pentagon

The Navy reportedly asked Carnival Cruise Line for help with its ongoing aircraft carrier maintenance issues
https://taskandpurpose.com/navy-carnival-cruise-line-aircraft-carrier-maintenance-readiness-problems

CHINA
China is reportedly sending men to sleep in the same beds as Uighur Muslim women while their husbands are in prison camps
https://news.yahoo.com/china-reportedly-sending-men-sleep-120625885.html

IMPEACHMENT
Trump, the phone call, and consciousness of guilt
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/columnists/trump-the-phone-call-and-consciousness-of-guilt?utm_source=breaking_push&utm_medium=app&utm_campaign=push_notifications&utm_source=WEX_News%20Brief_11/04/2019&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=WEX_News%20Brief&rid=5044

POLITICS
Liz Warren’s next convenient ‘transformation’
https://nypost.com/2019/11/03/liz-warrens-next-convenient-transformation/?utm_campaign=iosapp&utm_source=mail_app

NYT: One Year From Election, Trump Trails Biden but Leads Warren in Battlegrounds
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/04/upshot/trump-biden-warren-polls.html?te=1&nl=evening-briefing&emc=edit_ne_20191104?campaign_id=57&instance_id=13601&segment_id=18509&user_id=534895be791870e2f49b8be32ff6f7ab&regi_id=58935408

Roger Stone Trial Likely to Be a Spectacle
https://www.wsj.com/articles/roger-stone-trial-likely-to-be-a-spectacle-11572863401?emailToken=fd120e867c1406230eea1d22071ad07bsavmThwse6VI8Luu/EYeQQdSU8exdCo2yy4WDkv6NxTT3WjEj3D6onw5kIWT7/g7PS910RtMccajtdi5GNpIZuZ+6AjibP1ffz34lMWYf/U%3D&reflink=article_email_share

After 150 Years, Navajo Win Back Political Power in Utah
https://www.wsj.com/articles/after-150-years-navajo-win-back-political-power-in-utah-11572863402?emailToken=09fc6d77ba977d7298b06584a0a93aecdG6VhYotuRI/5FgmubL6f8xGbFUuD0CDljspwXLRbSTOWBumzm/GEK2VtLTCiwEB7fSCql3K8theaWfEtkLgjaMv209ajhJN4ncWhfOfC38h7Dc/9TfX8tsGcevRlnsq&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)

WAYNE ALLYN ROOT: The Real Ukraine Scandal Leads to the Clinton Foundation

by Assistant Editor October 10, 2019

President Trump has the highest approval rating among Republicans in history. 95%. No one is impeaching this president.

Now, let’s discuss why this is happening.

Ukraine donated more money to the Clinton Foundation than China, UK, France, Germany or Saudi Arabia.

Why would all this cash be coming from tiny Ukraine?

Because tiny Ukraine was the recipient of billions of dollars in US-taxpayer funded aid. It’s a million miles away. No one was watching. Leading Democrats extorted kickbacks on all this US foreign aid.

Democrats under Obama got rich. Democrats treated Ukraine as their personal fiefdom. This is how politics works in the DC Swamp.

I’ve been writing about the role of the Clinton Foundation for years. It’s my opinion the central role of the Clinton Foundation is to extort and launder bribes from foreign countries.

But if I’m wrong, why is this US charity based offshore? A charity owes no taxes on donations. So why not base your bank accounts in the USA?

Because they don’t have to report to the US government what comes in, or where the money is going. Simple: Offshore = no reporting. The Clinton Foundation could not afford to have anyone look at their books.

In my opinion, Hillary was running her version of the Gambino Crime Family slush fund. Jimmy Hoffa and the teamsters had nothing on the Clintons. And everyone in the Democrat Party and Deep State got a piece, to insure no one would rat.

Ukraine is the key to this massive Democrat scandal. But Biden was just the tip of the iceberg. This is all about the Obama and Clinton Crime Families.

I believe Trump’s phone call to Ukraine’s president set off alarm bells. Trump is digging in places no one has ever dared dig before. He could expose the extortion and bribery racket of leading Democrats. That’s why the Deep State decided to come after Trump. He’s messing with their livelihood. He’s upsetting their apple cart. If he’s allowed to investigate, the jig is up.

I believe Obama named Biden his sacrificial lamb, just in case Hillary didn’t win and all of this could not be covered up. Biden is a crook. But he’s a careless fool too. It was easy to make him the fall guy.

Trust me. This is Obama and Hillary’s scandal. Biden is just an order taker.

So, let me make this clear to Democrats: We have your number. Justice will be served. And you’re never, ever impeaching our hero, President Trump.

This isn’t Ukraine. We don’t punish the investigator in the United States of America. We punish the criminals.

Enter Joe Biden. Few in the Democrat Party wanted an old white guy as the nominee anyway. Especially Obama. In order to frame Trump, Biden had to be sacrificed. In my opinion, this second-hand “whistleblower” was meant to kill two birds with one stone: Trump and Biden. Biden is the Democrats’ fall guy.

But the real story is about the Clintons, the Clinton Foundation, Obama, Pelosi, Kerry and many other powerful Democrats. Their fingerprints are all over Ukraine. Forget about the high-paying jobs for their family members. This goes much deeper. touched the third rail of Democrat/Deep State/DC Swamp politics. He asked Ukraine’s President to investigate massive Democrat corruption and theft of taxpayer money.

Suddenly alarm bells went off at the DNC. I believe Trump is about to expose the biggest scandal in US political history. Trump is about to put powerful people in prison. Trump is about to destroy the Democrat Party and expose the Deep State.Trump is not getting thrown out of office. Not with his remarkable record of economic success for the average American worker. Not going to happen.

63 million Trump voters will insure that never happens. We have your back, Mr. President.

SOME TEACHER - NO MONEY for SCHOOLS

WAKE UP ALL

Nine hundred teachers just got laid off from the Los Angeles Unified School District. The district is $650,000 over its annual budget. The following comments by an English teacher help to explain one area that looms large over California's educational crisis.
I hope each person receiving this mail will read it carefully, all the way to the end. It is sad what is happening to our great country, all because our politicians are afraid they will miss out on a vote.
What a travesty!

This English & ESL teacher has phrased it the best I've seen yet, and it should make everyone think, be you Democrat, Republican or Independent.
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From a California school teacher....

As you listen to the news about the student protests over illegal immigration, there are some things that you should be aware of: I am in charge of the English-as-a-second-language (ESL) department at a large southern California high school which is designated a Title-1 school, meaning that its students average in the lower socio-economic and income levels.

Most of the schools you are hearing about are Compton, South Gate High, Bell Gardens, Huntington Park, etc., where their students are protesting – these are also Title-1 schools.

Title-1 schools are on the free-breakfast and free-lunch program. When I say free breakfast, I'm not talking about a glass of milk and a roll.  But a full breakfast and cereal bar with fruits and juices that would make the Marriott proud.
The waste of this food is monumental, with trays and trays of it being dumped in the trash uneaten. (Our tax dollars at work!)

I estimate that well over 50% of these students are obese or at least moderately overweight.  About 75% or more have cell phones. The school also provides day care centers for the unwed teenage pregnant girls (some as young as 13) so they can attend class without the inconvenience of having to arrange for babysitters or having family watch their kids.
(More of our tax dollars at work!)

I was ordered to spend $700,000 on my department, or risk losing funding for the upcoming year even though there was little need for anything. My budget was already substantial, but I ended up buying new computers for the Computer Learning Center, half of which, one month later, were carved with graffiti by the appreciative students who obviously feel humbled and grateful to have a free education in America. (More and more of our tax dollars at work!)

I have had to intervene several times for young substitute teachers whose classes consist of many illegal immigrant students here in the country less than 3 months, who raised so much hell with the female teachers, calling them putas (whores) and throwing things, that the teachers were in tears.

Free medical care, free education, free food, free day care, etc., etc., etc. Is it any wonder they feel entitled not only to be in this country, but also to demand rights, privileges and entitlements?

To those who want to point out how much these illegal immigrants contribute to our society, because they happen to like their gardener and/or housekeeper, and they like to pay less for tomatoes, I say: Spend some time in the real world of illegal immigration and see the true costs.

Higher insurance, medical facilities closing, higher medical costs, more crime, lower standards of education in our schools, overcrowding, new diseases, etc., etc., etc. For me, I'll pay more for tomatoes.

Americans, we need to wake up. The guest worker program will be a disaster because we won't have the guts to enforce it.  Does anyone in their right mind really think they will voluntarily leave and return?

It does, however, have everything to do with culture: A third-world culture that does not value education, that accepts children getting pregnant and dropping out of school by age 15, and that refuses to assimilate, plus an American culture that has become so weak and worried about "political correctness", that we don't have the will to do what is needed.

If this makes your blood boil, as it did mine, forward this to everyone you know, including your Congressman and Senators.

Cheap labor? Isn't that what the whole immigration issue is about? Business doesn't want to pay a decent wage.

Consumers don't want expensive produce. Government will tell you "Americans don't want the jobs".

But the bottom line is cheap labor. The phrase "cheap labor" is a myth, a farce, and a lie. There is no such thing as "cheap labor".

Take, for example, an illegal alien with a wife and five children.
He takes a job for $5.00 or $6.00/hour. At that wage, with six dependents, he pays no income tax, yet at the end of the year, if he files an income tax return, he gets an "earned income credit" of up to $3,200 free.

Also....

1- He qualifies for Section-8 housing and subsidized rent;

2- He qualifies for food stamps;

3- He qualifies for free (no deductible, no co-pay) health care;

4- His children get free breakfasts and lunches at school;

5- He requires bilingual teachers and books;

6- He qualifies for relief from high energy bills;

7- If they are, or become aged, blind or disabled, they qualify for SSI;

8- Once qualified for SSI they can qualify for Medicare (All of this at taxpayer's {our} expense);

9- He doesn't worry about car insurance, life insurance, or homeowners insurance;

10- Taxpayers provide Spanish language signs, bulletins and printed material;

11- He and his family receive the equivalent of $20.00 to $30.00/hour in benefits;

12- Working Americans are lucky to have $5.00 or $6.00/hour left after paying their bills and his;

13- The American taxpayers also pays for increased crime, graffiti and trash clean-up.

Cheap labor? Yeah right! Wake up people!
These are the questions we should be addressing to Presidential candidates for either party.
We must take action or we will all go down the drain because a few don't care. And if you think this is bad, just wait until a Democrat becomes President and the redistribution of wealth becomes the norm in this ex-Democracy.