PLATT - Misc News

GENERAL INTEREST
Old Commercials That Would Be "Politically Incorrect" Today
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=66mQz44pPY4

O.J. Simpson Could Take Home $25,000 a Month Now That He's Released From Prison
http://time.com/money/4866377/oj-simpson-net-worth-pension-civil-lawsuit-parole/

O. J. Simpson murder case
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/O._J._Simpson_murder_case

News quiz: The mystery in Havana, a college sports scandal and more (8/10)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-nation/wp/2017/09/30/news-quiz-the-big-mystery-in-havana-a-college-sports-scandal-and-more/?undefined=&utm_term=.d40265732da5&wpisrc=nl_headlines&wpmm=1

AGRICULTURE
Why small, local, organic farms aren’t the key to fixing our food system
https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/food/why-small-local-organic-farms-arent-the-key-to-fixing-our-food-system/2017/09/21/146f72b2-9e4d-11e7-8ea1-ed975285475e_story.html?undefined=&utm_term=.cc9ca5d64f01&wpisrc=nl_headlines&wpmm=1

SPORTS
I Can’t Imagine Why?: 180 NFL Players Protested the Anthem Last Week, Only 11 This Week
http://www.breitbart.com/sports/2017/10/01/cant-imagine-why-last-week-180-nfl-players-protested-anthem-far-week-11/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+breitbart+%28Breitbart+News%29

MARIA
One Day in the Life of Battered Puerto Rico
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/09/30/us/24-hours-in-puerto-rico-after-hurricane-maria.html?emc=edit_nn_20171001&nl=morning-briefing&nlid=58935408&te=1

In the Virgin Islands, Hurricane Maria Drowned What Irma Didn’t Destroy
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/27/us/hurricane-maria-virgin-islands.html?emc=edit_nn_20171001&nl=morning-briefing&nlid=58935408&te=1

NATIONAL SECURITY
The President and Nuclear Weapons Or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Trump Having the Bomb
https://warontherocks.com/2017/09/the-president-and-nuclear-weapons-or-how-i-learned-to-stop-worrying-and-love-trump-having-the-bomb/

MEDIA
Why Hasn’t Rachel Maddow Apologized For Her Anthony Weiner Conspiracy Theories?
http://thefederalist.com/2017/09/25/hasnt-rachel-maddow-apologized-anthony-weiner-conspiracy-theories/

TERRORISM
Terror attack horror in Canada as driver with ISIS flag deliberately rams pedestrians
https://mg.mail.yahoo.com/?.src=neo&reason=bkt_myc#8649457544

NORK
Trump usurps Tillerson: a waste of time to negotiate with North Korea (I don't understand the strategy here ... if there is one.)
http://blabber.buzz/politics/conservative-news/236423-trump-says-its-a-waste-of-time-to-negotiate-with-north-korea

POLITICS
Mainstream Media Joins Push to Do Away With Electoral College
http://www.aim.org/aim-column/mainstream-media-joins-push-to-do-away-with-electoral-college/

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