Monday, October 29, 2018

PLATT - MISC News

GENERAL INTEREST
Scary Moments as Texas School Bus Drives into Flood Waters
https://weather.com/news/weather/video/scary-moments-as-texas-school-bus-drives-into-flood-waters?pl=pl-the-latest

Audrey Hepburn’s secret past as a Nazi fighter
https://pagesix.com/2018/10/28/audrey-hepburns-secret-past-as-a-nazi-fighter/?utm_campaign=iosapp&utm_source=mail_app

Furious Mongoose
https://twitter.com/Peacharu_/status/1053039011307155456

Goodwill Workers Find Original 1774 Newspaper With 'Unite or Die' Political Cartoon in Donations
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/bethbaumann/2018/10/27/goodwill-workers-find-original-1774-newspaper-with-unite-or-die-political-cartoon-in-donations-n2532413?utm_source=thdaily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl&newsletterad=&bcid=3cb4e56ddeac8885c78e874bb1d8f1a4&recip=27077809

PROGRESSIVE MEDIA RUNNING AMOK
Georgetown Prep after the Smear 
https://www.nationalreview.com/2018/10/georgetown-prep-kavanaugh-confirmation-media-circus-damage/?utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=WIR%20-%20Sunday%202018-10-28&utm_term=VDHM

FINANCIAL
Government dysfunction could doom us to a never-ending financial crisis when the next one hits 
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/government-dysfunction-could-doom-us-to-a-never-ending-financial-crisis-when-the-next-one-hits-2018-10-23

BUSINESS
Microsoft Says It Will Sell Pentagon Artificial Intelligence and Other Advanced Technology
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/26/us/politics/ai-microsoft-pentagon.html?emc=edit_nn_20181028&nl=morning-briefing&nlid=5893540820181028&te=1

New Trump drug-price plan activates big pharma fear: government-set prices 
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/new-trump-drug-price-plan-activates-big-pharma-fear-government-set-prices-2018-10-26

Ceasefire in trade war with China bodes well for American business
https://thehill.com/opinion/international/413465-ceasefire-in-trade-war-with-china-bodes-well-for-american-business

TRANSPORTATION
Why Philadelphia halted plans to unleash e-scooters across the city
https://www.yahoo.com/finance/news/philadelphia-halted-plans-unleash-e-scooters-across-city-115322008.html

NATIONAL SECURITY
Mattis: Military moving equipment to border ahead of migrant caravan
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2018/oct/28/james-mattis-says-military-moving-equipment-us-mex/?utm_source=Boomtrain&utm_medium=manual&utm_campaign=20180326&utm_term=newsalert&utm_content=newsalert&bt_ee=UAM7cR4M7%2FQ8xwJcs%2FHJh%2B5Vvuur7SLxvAEeepPTGGFZWPIRBkgFJVufL7layQwY&bt_ts=1540735232494

LAW AND THE COURTS
Transgender fight could prove major test for Supreme Court
https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/413420-transgender-fight-could-prove-major-test-for-supreme-court?userid=288549

SOCIAL MEDIA
The suspected Pittsburgh shooter allegedly had a following on a social network that many call the far-right's alternative to Twitter — here's everything we know about Gab
https://www.businessinsider.com/pittsburgh-synagogue-shooting-gab-2018-10?utm_source=yahoo&utm_medium=referral#/#gab-was-launched-in-august-2016-1

IMMIGRATION
Massive Migrant Caravan Keeps Proving Trump Right on Border Policy
https://www.dailywire.com/news/37444/massive-migrant-caravan-keeps-proving-trump-right-ben-shapiro?utm_source=shapironewsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_content=102818-news&utm_campaign=position1

CARAVAN
Caravan inches closer to border as many reject Mexican asylum
https://nypost.com/2018/10/27/caravan-inches-closer-to-border-as-many-reject-mexican-asylum/?utm_campaign=iosapp&utm_source=mail_app

Migrant caravan halts after report of abducted child
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2018/oct/28/migrant-caravan-abducted-child-report-halts-journe/?utm_source=Boomtrain&utm_medium=manual&utm_campaign=20180326&utm_term=newsalert&utm_content=newsalert&bt_ee=T0TkssgJKkKansqfdmaAJypXifIlJPV8EeF85MHs9K5C%2BpeIkd%2BjvzwkFlKsCTYF&bt_ts=1540729680244

Central American caravan moves on in spite of Mexico jobs offer
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-immigration-caravan/central-american-caravan-moves-on-in-spite-of-mexico-jobs-offer-idUSKCN1N10Q8

RUSSIAGATE
Unprecedented: Mueller has 'heavy burden' to prove Russian firm's intent to defraud in 2016 election
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2018/oct/28/robert-muellers-russia-case-difficult-prosecute/?utm_source=Boomtrain&utm_medium=manual&utm_campaign=20180326&utm_term=newsalert&utm_content=newsalert&bt_ee=l%2BF28jLdIftWowX4vO9ksvOwiWhiu3KsY%2BQKG6YGY9pi1uaUhV3KfOf%2FYYW5Hidp&bt_ts=1540765177004

POLITICS
A Changing Tennessee Weighs a Moderate or Conservative for Senate
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/24/us/politics/tennessee-senate-phil-bredesen-marsha-blackburn.html?emc=edit_nn_20181028&module=inline&nl=morning-briefing&nlid=58935408_nn_20181028&te=1

What Could Hold Back a Democratic Wave? Economy, Confidence, Independence
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/23/us/politics/democratic-house-midterms-blue-wave.html?emc=edit_nn_20181028&module=inline&nl=morning-briefing&nlid=58935408_nn_20181028&te=1

Smart money is on Republicans keeping control of House, betting site odds say
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/onpolitics/2018/10/28/midterm-elections-betting-odds/1800052002/

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Lose – with the discipline to confront the most brutal facts of your current reality, whatever
they might be."
           - VAdm James Stockdale, USN (1923-2005)

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