PLATT - MISC News

GENERAL INTEREST
News quiz: A long week of big announcements (6/10)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-nation/wp/2017/10/28/news-quiz-a-long-week-of-big-announcements/?undefined=&utm_term=.c82523136a56&wpisrc=nl_headlines&wpmm=1

HEALTH CARE
How Big Medicine can ruin Medicare for all 
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/oct/28/big-medicine-monopoly-medicare-for-all?utm_source=esp&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=GU+Today+USA+-+Collections+2017&utm_term=250025&subid=24222148&CMP=GT_US_collection

ECONOMICS
Reckoning with Communism
http://www.nationalreview.com/article/453075/communism-russian-revolution-terrible-cost?utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=NR%20Week%20in%20Review%202017-10-29&utm_term=VDHM

CYBER SECURITY
Woman discovers skimmer [connected] to ATM card reader
http://www.cbs46.com/clip/13471890/woman-discovers-skimmer-attached-to-atm-card-reader

PUERTO RICO
Puerto Rico’s utility cancels controversial contract with Montana firm to repair electric grid (Hopefully, this will also cancel at least some of the  congressional and departmental grandstanding ["investigating"] committees.)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/puerto-rico-governor-says-contract-to-whitefish-company-should-be-canceled/2017/10/29/e5336cda-bcb8-11e7-97d9-bdab5a0ab381_story.html?utm_term=.5a56293ce3f0&wpisrc=al_news__alert-politics--alert-national&wpmk=1

NIGER
U.S. Soldiers Were Separated From Unit in Niger Ambush, Officials Say
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/26/world/africa/niger-soldiers-killed-ambush.html?emc=edit_nn_20171029&nl=morning-briefing&nlid=58935408&te=1

IMMIGRATION
Canada's 'Welcome' To Immigrants Has Some Unintended Consequences
http://www.npr.org/2017/10/29/560467747/canadas-balancing-act-on-immigration

NORK
Why North Korea has a cultural and psychological advantage against the US in nuclear warfare
https://www.aol.com/article/news/2017/10/27/why-north-korea-has-a-cultural-and-psychological-advantage-against-the-us-in-nuclear-warfare/23258534/

POLITICS
Top Virginia Paper Rips VA Democrats, Your Mailer Against Republican Candidate Is ‘Practically Libel’
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/mattvespa/2017/10/28/top-virginia-paper-rips-va-democrats-your-mailer-against-republican-candidate-is-n2401404?utm_source=thdaily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl&newsletterad=

The liberal-left divide reshaping American politics 
https://www.theguardian.com/news/2017/oct/26/the-liberal-left-divide-reshaping-american-politics?utm_source=esp&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=The+Long+Read+-+Collections+2017&utm_term=249845&subid=20430811&CMP=longread_collection

The 6 Big Ways Liberals Are Destroying America’s Culture
https://townhall.com/columnists/johnhawkins/2017/10/29/the-6-big-ways-liberals-are-destroying-americas-culture-n2401839?utm_source=thdaily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl&newsletterad=

Never A Dull Moment
https://townhall.com/columnists/derekhunter/2017/10/29/never-a-dull-moment-n2401826?utm_source=thdaily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl&newsletterad=

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“The last resort of the competitive economy is the bailiff, but the ultimate sanction of a planned economy
is the hangman."
                ~ F. A. Hayek