PLATT - MISC News

HEADLINES
Texas Shooting Death Toll Confirmed At 26; Shooter Was Stopped By Onlooker
https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/texas-shooting-death-toll-confirmed-001206339.html

26 killed in church attack in Texas' deadliest mass shooting
https://www.yahoo.com/news/local-media-multiple-victims-texas-church-shooting-190855639.html

GENERAL INTEREST
Out Of Order
https://tedium.co/2017/10/31/telephone-area-codes-history/

Why we can't have nice things: dockless bikes and the tragedy of the commons 
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2017/nov/05/why-we-cant-have-nice-things-dockless-bikes-and-the-tragedy-of-the-commons?utm_source=esp&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=GU+Today+USA+-+Collections+2017&utm_term=251022&subid=24222148&CMP=GT_US_collection

Nerve-shattering Road Collision
https://weather.com/news/trending/video/nerve-shattering-road-collision

Hogzilla Roams Alabama Neighborhood
https://weather.com/news/trending/video/hogzilla-roams-alabama-neighborhood

News quiz: 10 questions from the biggest stories of the week (8/10)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-nation/wp/2017/11/04/news-quiz-10-questions-from-the-biggest-stories-of-the-week/?undefined=&utm_term=.813acce815cd&wpisrc=nl_headlines&wpmm=1

HEALTH
Scientists Develop Drug That Can 'Melt Away' Harmful Fat (MO: is there any substance to this or is it just hype?)
http://start.att.net/news/read/article/fortune-scientists_develop_drug_that_can_melt_away_harmful-rtime

Chasing a killer
https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2017/national/health-science/monkeypox/?utm_term=.3d89fbc6e3f3

SPORTS
Flanagan upsets Keitany, ends US drought at NYC Marathon 
http://start.att.net/news/read/article/the_associated_press-flanagan_upsets_keitany_ends_us_drought_at_nyc_mar-ap

ASTRONOMY
See it! Full Hunter’s Moon
http://earthsky.org/astronomy-essentials/see-it-full-hunters-moon?mc_cid=e27bf90a57&mc_eid=11b1b20d94

TECHNOLOGY
Poor Man's Google Glass/Aid for Those With Tunnel Vision (A very interesting project for those with a technical bent)
http://www.instructables.com/id/Poor-Mans-Google-GlassAid-for-Those-With-Tunnel-Vi/?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email

MIDDLE EAST
Saudi Arabia intercepts ballistic missile fired by rebels in Yemen
http://www.news.com.au/world/middle-east/loud-explosion-heard-near-riyadh-airport/news-story/17092daacac5ca528cd559c7eecb986f

TERRORISM
The Latest: ATF sends agents to Texas church after shooting 
http://start.att.net/news/read/article/the_associated_press-the_latest_sheriff_says_church_shooter_has_been_ta-ap

RUSSIAGATE
More Thoughts on the Manafort Indictment
http://www.nationalreview.com/article/453305/paul-manafort-indictment-mystifying-enigmatic?utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=NR%20Week%20in%20Review%202017-11-05&utm_term=VDHM

POLITICS
Millennials Are Clueless About Communism. Here’s Why That’s a Problem.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3601917/posts

Post-ABC poll: Voters favor Democrats over Republicans in 2018 House midterms by widest margin in years
https://www.washingtonpost.com/powerpost/post-abc-poll-voters-favor-democrats-over-republicans-in-2018-house-midterms-by-widest-margin-in-years/2017/11/05/b3b2f620-bf4d-11e7-959c-fe2b598d8c00_story.html?utm_term=.d03d577601c3&wpisrc=al_news__alert-politics--alert-national&wpmk=1

Brazile says she found ‘no evidence’ that Democratic primaries were rigged for Clinton (WTF?)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2017/11/05/brazile-says-she-found-no-evidence-that-democratic-primaries-were-rigged-for-clinton/?utm_term=.00495226083f&wpisrc=nl_evening&wpmm=1

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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