PLATT - MISC News

GENERAL INTEREST
Was DB Cooper's escape COVERED UP by the FBI? A letter that spent 46 years buried in the feds' archives reveals the hijacker may have survived leaping out of a plane.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5097055/Was-hijacker-DB-Cooper-s-escape-COVERED-FBI.html

The Turkey Whisperer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=84qBanIzbGc&app=desktop

News quiz: A big spender, a powerful earthquake and more (7/10)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-nation/wp/2017/11/18/news-quiz-a-big-spender-a-powerful-earthquake-and-more/?undefined=&utm_term=.7ac72f1e2261&wpisrc=nl_headlines&wpmm=1

PROGRESSIVES UNHINGED
Insiders and Outsiders in the Outdoors 
http://tsl.news/opinions/7106/

EDUCATION
How a half-educated tech elite delivered us into chaos 
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/nov/19/how-tech-leaders-delivered-us-into-evil-john-naughton?utm_source=esp&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=GU+Today+USA+-+Collections+2017&utm_term=253081&subid=24222148&CMP=GT_US_collection

MONEY
Smart Remedies for Foolish Spenders
https://www.wsj.com/article_email/remedies-for-foolish-spenders-1510933005-lMyQjAxMTI3MTEwOTExODkwWj/



BUSINESS
U.S. manufacturing can come back — but be clear about what that means 
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/us-manufacturing-can-come-back-but-be-clear-about-what-that-means-2017-11-18

ENVIRONMENT
Big Government and Environmentalists Are Causing Massive Fires in Western States
http://dailysignal.com/2017/11/14/big-government-and-environmentalists-are-causing-massive-fires-in-western-states/?utm_source=TDS_Email&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=MorningBell&mkt_tok=eyJpIjoiTURObFlqVTBNekkxWldFNSIsInQiOiJjV0pWNzZOK0kxN2pONmRtY0dTK1hMYVgraXp5VDY4SFZvVVJVVFdnMHJhUHpYVEhUOE0wZ3FjUnhGSVNveTNYbFFTcjlqQWJLcXU5NEdpKzV4RGJxWlBJQ01laWlRZUZcL1pYSkxCS2pFd2RFQlc4MU9rbTU2azBRR0hzWnVCR1wvIn0%3D

JUDICIARY
How New York Courts Are Keeping Prosecutors in Line
https://www.wsj.com/article_email/how-new-york-courts-are-keeping-prosecutors-in-line-1510953911-lMyQjAxMTE3NDE0OTExMTk2Wj/

Lerner, Paz say they fear physical harm from enraged public, want IRS testimony sealed permanently
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2017/nov/19/lois-lerner-holly-paz-want-testimony-sealed-perman/?mkt_tok=eyJpIjoiWlRSa1lXSmtOakUzTkRoayIsInQiOiJuNnhYenV2eE9qUWJnMnZvUFFcL0FGTW9iUzZQVm5XMk9ET1wvMjdjNFFPZFZOa1NZZ1YrcnZEN0VGOEltdGtXajkyZkJuQzBoZExPXC9LRUFKeUo4NWNEaUdSc2VvOWtZKzBkRlJZRFh0Q2t3VmJtVHFXeTRWUDJPb2M2VDgybU00byJ9

PUERTO RICO
From No Power in Puerto Rico to Living in a Car in Orlando
https://www.wsj.com/article_email/no-power-in-puerto-rico-evacuees-come-to-orlando-and-find-scant-housing-1510935425-lMyQjAxMTE3NjEzOTQxNDk4Wj/

MIDDLE EAST
The Uncounted
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/11/16/magazine/uncounted-civilian-casualties-iraq-airstrikes.html?emc=edit_nn_20171119&nl=morning-briefing&nlid=58935408&te=1

Crimes of the Caliphate: Iraqi Shepherd Bears Witness to ISIS Massacre
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/17/world/middleeast/iraq-isis-islamic-state-executions.html?emc=edit_nn_20171119&nl=morning-briefing&nlid=58935408&te=1

RUSSIAGATE
British publicist who arranged Donald Trump Jr's meeting with Russian lawyer breaks silence on collusion claims
https://www.yahoo.com/news/british-publicist-arranged-donald-trump-103400351.html



Top Russian Official Tried to Broker ‘Backdoor’ Meeting Between Trump and Putin
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/17/us/politics/trump-russia-kushner.html?emc=edit_nn_20171119&nl=morning-briefing&nlid=58935408&te=1

POLITICS
Disruption games: why are libertarians lining up with autocrats to undermine democracy?
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/nov/19/trump-russia-fake-news-libertarians-autocrats-democracy?utm_source=esp&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=GU+Today+USA+-+Collections+2017&utm_term=253081&subid=24222148&CMP=GT_US_collection

New York Times Reporter: Obama Administration Misled on al Qaeda
http://www.weeklystandard.com/new-york-times-reporter-obama-administration-misled-on-al-qaeda/article/2010541

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is the hangman."
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