Subject: ?Axios AM: Mike's Top 10 — Danger in the Valley — Age of rage — The Mars manifesto — Hamptons buzz
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Date: Mon, 19 Jun 2017 05:32:15 -0400 (EDT)

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By Mike Allen = ·Jun 19, 2017

Good Monday morning — two days until=the official start of summer.

As I read the list of seven sleeping sailors who died in floode= berths of the U.S. Navy destroyer that collided with a container ship off=Japan, I realized that these names, ages and hometowns give a glimpse of t=e men and women who serve us around the world: "Dakota Kyle Rigsby, 19, of=Palmyra, Va.; Shingo Alexander Douglass, 25, of San Diego; Ngoc T. Truong =uynh, 25, of Oakville, Conn.; Noe Hernandez, 26, of Weslaco, Tex.; Carlos =ictor Ganzon Sibayan, 23, of Chula Vista, Calif.; Xavier Alec Martin, 24, =f Halethorpe, Md.; and Gary Leo Rehm Jr., 37, of Elyria, Ohio."

1 big thing: Danger in the Valley

As tech royalty converges on the White House today for =n American Technology Council meeting, the darlings of Silicon Valley are =n danger of becoming the devils of Trumpism's nationalist wing.

This won't happen overnight, but danger signs are everywhere. =xios Tech Editor Kim Hart w=ote last week that the giants, with their "enormous concentrations of =ealth and data," are "drawing the attention of economists and academics wh= warn they're growing too powerful."
Turns out it's government,=too. The Bannon wing of the White House would like to take on the=lords of the Valley now over outsourcing, the concentration of wealth and =heir control over our data and lives. But this fight is on hold for a late= date, officials tell us.

The bigger problem for tech is that many Americans are rethinking their romantic views of the hottes= and biggest companies of the new economy. As people look for villains to =lame, tech might get its turn:

Some shine has come off=Facebook (though not in user data, Dan Primack points out: People=still love the service), as executives fend off grievances about fake news= live violence and the filter bubble.

Silicon Valley makes itself a juicy target with its male dominance, concentration of w=alth (in both people and places), and reliance on foreign workers.
Robots will soon be eating lots of jobs,=with working-class, blue collar workers — an engine of the Trump c=alition — at the most immediate risk. Many think this will be the =tory of the next 10 years.

Anyone familiar with m=litary intelligence will tell you cyber-risk is much greater than most peo=le realize. Russians used cyber tools to try to throw the 2016, and electr=nic attack is perhaps the greatest U.S vulnerability to an international p=wer.

People increasingly distrust technology,=and the companies will increasingly be in the crosshairs. Richard Edelman =E2�� president and CEO of the global communications firm — wro=e in introducing Edelman's 2=17 Trust Barometer: "[O]ngoing globalization and technological change =re now further weakening people's trust in global institutions, which they=believe have failed to protect them from the negative effects of these for=es.

Be smart: Tech executives are very aware of th= public's unsettled mood and fearful that if they completely disengage wit= Trump the White House will turn on their companies. That's why many are h=re today!

Dive deeper: "=hat Apple's Tim Cook will tell Trump" (CEOs come with their own agenda=: He'll raise topics the White House hadn't planned)

Off embargo at 6 a.m.: "Silicon Valley's elite comes to Trump's Washington."<=a>

2. London mayor: A new "horrific terrorist attack"

An officer talks to local people at Finsbury Park in north London, where=a vehicle struck pedestrians near a mosque early this morning (Victoria Jo=es / Press Association, via AP)

Another horrible van attack in London overnight — this time outside a well-known mosque, with worshippers marking Ramadan =..

Reuters: "A van plowed in=o worshippers leaving a London mosque on Monday, injuring 10 people in wha= witnesses said was a deliberate attack on Muslims."

=span>"The incident was being treated as a potentia= terrorist attack said Prime Minister Theresa May, which if confirmed woul= make it the fourth since March in Britain and the third to involve a vehicle deliberately driven at pedestrians."<=li>
"Police said the suspected van driver, aged 48, ha= been detained by members of the public before being arrested on suspicion=of attempted murder."

Why it matters: This is=another incident in a frightening season, foreign and domestic — f=om the shooting of a congressman to repeated terrorist attacks. "Rage Is All the Rage," columnist Peggy Noonan w=ote in The Wall Street Journal this weekend.

That tower fire in London (death toll at 58 and lik=ly to rise, perhaps to 70=/a>) is another totem, with fury over official neglect that helped cause i=, and the halting response that followed it. A New York Times Op-Ed from L=ndon warned of "An Inferno Of Public Trust."=/p>

3. Stat du jour

More people were forced from their hom=s by conflict last year than any time since World War II:

"The relentless civil war in Syria and=a surge of South Sudanese fleeing the collapse of peace efforts in their c=untry helped propel the global population of displaced people to a record =n 2016, [per] the United Nations refugee agency": 65.6 million — 3=0,000 higher than in 2015, which had been the highest since World War II.<=m> (N.Y. Ti=es' Rick Gladstone)

"[T]he number of refugee= worldwide reached 22.5 million, the most ever."

Why it matters: "The ... report was issued at a time =hen governments in Europe and the United States have become increasingly r=sistant to accepting more refugees."

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4. Jared's next mission

Kushner (next to Kellyanne Conway) at Friday's first meeting of the Pres=dent's Commission on Combating Drug Addiction and the Opioid Crisis (AP's =usan Walsh)

"Jared Kushner ... plans to travel to the Middle East t=is week to try to advance U.S. efforts to reach an Israeli-Palestinian pea=e deal," the Wall Street Journal's Carol Lee writes. "Kushner =lans to meet with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Jerusalem a=d travel to Ramallah to meet with Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas."
"He is scheduled to arrive i= Israel on Wednesday. Jason Greenblatt, Mr. Trump's top representative on =sraeli-Palestinian negotiations, plans to arrive in the region two days ea=lier."

P.S. N.Y. Times p. A12, "Kushner's Legal Team In Electi=n Investigation May Be Reconfigured": "Representatives of Jared Kushner ..= have quietly contacted high-powered criminal lawyers about potentially re=resenting him in the wide-ranging investigation into Russia's influence on=the 2016 election."

"Some of Mr= Kushner's allies have raised questions about the link between hi= current lawyer, Jamie S. Gorelick, and Robert S. Mueller III ... Before t=e Justice Department named him to the special counsel post, Mr. Mueller wa= a law partner with Ms. Gorelick at the Washington firm of WilmerHale."

5. Zeitgeist

Barron Trump, 11, checks his snap of a Marine next to the helicopter on =he South Lawn as the family arrived from Camp David yesterday (AP's Manuel=Balce Ceneta)

A huge questi=n from New Yorker Editor David Remnick: "Who in the White Hou=e will turn against Donald Trump?"

"by Steve Coll — lead =Talk of the Town" item in the new New Yorker: "A shooting and investigatio=s at a political moment that appears to be as volatile as the Watergate er=. ... a disquieting political season of hatred and anger."

"The Constitution does appear to be al=ve and well: prosecutors and the F.B.I. have vigorously defended their ind=pendence; judges appointed by Presidents of both major parties have blocke= the Administration's discriminatory travel ban; and a robust and well-sou=ced Washington press corps is keeping the public apprised of the Administr=tion's activities."

"Trump defiant as pre=sure grows," by CNN's Stephen Collinson: "America is edging e=er closer to a new long, national nightmare ... [T]the sense of chaos arou=d the White House is deepening."

N.Y. Times Quote of the Day — in front-pager, "Pre=ident Cedes Afghan Strategy To the Pentagon" ... Richard Kohn, a military=historian at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill who advised N=tional Security Adviser H.R. McMaster on his doctoral thesis: "The preside=t doesn't have the time or interest to make these decisions, so they want =o leave the decision making to [SecDef Jim] Mattis."

6. 45 years ago today ...

... the first Watergate story by Woodward and Bernstein=— on June 19, 1972. Richard Milhous Nixon announced his resignatio= 780 days later.

The burglars had been surprised at=DNC HQ in the early morning hours of June 17, 1972.

The Post=s first Watergate story, on June 18 ("5 Held in Plot to Bug Democ=ats' Office Here"), was by The Post's legendary police reporter, Al Lewis,=who had 15,000 bylines in 50 years.

The story was above the fold,=but not the lead. That was: "Both Sides Claim Victory in N. Vietnam Offens=ve."

7. Get smart fast: The shrinking Islamic State

Lazaro Gamio / Axios Visuals Editor

See the GIF version.

8. Covering the future: Musk's Mars manifesto

Musk in 2015 (AP's Ringo H.W. Chiu)

"Elon Musk thinks he can make getting to Mars cheaper than going=to college," by may sound outlandish, but SpaceX [and Tesla] CEO Elon Musk =s adamant about his plan. ... Space technology journal New Space published=[a 16-page] article ... outlining his plans."

the cost of getting 12 people to Mars to start a =olony is about $10 billion per person at this point. ... He thinks they mi=ht be able to get the cost down to less than $100,000."

Mu=k: "If we can get the cost of moving to Mars to be roughly equiva=ent to a median house price in the United States, which is around $200,000= then I think the probability of establishing a self-sustaining civilizati=n is very high ... I think it would almost certainly occur.'"

"You need a really powerful rocket to do this."
"The paper shows a timeline ... for flights to Mars=starting at ... 2023" — six years from now.

9. "The Worst Problem on Earth"

This Atlantic cover story (online soon)

"Thirty minutes. That's how long it=would take a nuclear-tipped intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) laun=hed from North Korea to reach Los Angeles."

"Even failed t=sts move North Korea closer to its goal possessing nuclear weapon= capable of hitting U.S. cities."

"Kim [Jong-un] may end up trapped in the circular logic of his strategy. =e seeks to avoid destruction by building a weapon that, if used, assures h=s destruction."

"Every option the United State ha= for dealing with North Korea is bad."

"An American first =trike would likely trigger one of the worst mass killings in huma= history."

"Would the U.S. sacrifice Los Angeles =o save Seoul?"

P.S. "Why I can't stop thinking about Otto=Warmbier," by WashPost Editorial Page Editor Fred Hiatt: "We don't kno= whether North Korean guards beat Warmbier into a coma or whether his abus= ... came in some other form."

=Thousands — no, hundreds of thousands — of Korean= have been subjected to similar criminal abuse as Otto Warmbier suffered a= the hands of North Korea's Stalinist regime."

10. 1 noisy thing

"Hamptons=Buzz: Aircraft Noise —Residents' complaints on the ri=e as more people helicopter in; 'it vibrates the house,'" by Joseph De Avi=a on the Wall Street Journal's "Greater New York" page (online "Summer=in the Hamptons: Oysters, Rosé, and Helicopter Noise?"):

"According to the town, there=are about 25,000 takeoffs and landings a year and more than 8,000 helicopt=r landings and departures at East Hampton Airport. Commercial airlines can=t use the airport, which opened in the 1930s and sits about 5 miles west f=om town hall, but private jets can. ...

started mounting a few years ago <=trong>after ride-share apps made it easier to catch a hel=copter ride, primarily from New York City ... Helicopter landings=and departures increased to nearly 8,400 in 2014, up 47% from the previous=year, according to court papers filed by the town."

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