PLATT - MISC News

GENERAL INTEREST
Greedy parents are ruining Halloween for the kids
https://nypost.com/2018/10/30/greedy-parents-are-ruining-halloween-for-the-kids/?utm_campaign=iosapp&utm_source=mail_app



Want better customer service? Don't call. Text 
http://www.jewishworldreview.com/1018/customer_service_texting.php3

HEALTH
It’s Not Unreasonable to Be Worried about Disease and the Caravan 
https://www.nationalreview.com/2018/10/its-not-unreasonable-to-be-worried-about-disease-and-the-caravan/

Heathen eats soup directly from supermarket hot bar
https://nypost.com/2018/10/31/heathen-eats-soup-directly-from-supermarket-hot-bar/?utm_campaign=iosapp&utm_source=mail_app

Why stiffness and soreness could indicate a more serious issue 
http://www.jewishworldreview.com/1018/stiffness_soreness_more_serious_issues.php3

HEALTH CARE

A Sense of Alarm as Rural Hospitals Keep Closing
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/29/upshot/a-sense-of-alarm-as-rural-hospitals-keep-closing.html

NYT Shocked: Rural Means Not Big City
http://raconteurreport.blogspot.com/2018/10/nyt-shocked-rural-means-not-big-city.html

IMPRIMIS - A superb description of How Health Insurance GOT THIS WAY
https://imprimis.hillsdale.edu/short-history-american-medical-insurance/

PARENTING
We've so overscheduled our kids that doctors are now prescribing playtime
http://www.jewishworldreview.com/1018/overscheduled.php3

PROGRESSIVES RUNNING AMOK
Students Vs. Mexicans: Cultural Appropriation
https://www.prageru.com/videos/students-vs-mexicans-cultural-appropriation

BUSINESS
In Wisconsin, Some Fear Foxconn Factory's Main Product Is Smoke and Mirrors (Stay tuned ... expect the same kind of deal with the Amazon HQ2 affair.}
http://fortune.com/2018/10/31/in-wisconsin-some-fear-foxconn-factorys-main-product-is-smoke-and-mirrors/

Facebook’s Vision for the Future: Less News Feed, More Stories
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/30/technology/facebook-earnings-growth.html?emc=edit_nn_20181031&nl=morning-briefing&nlid=5893540820181031&te=1

CLIMATE CHANGE
Melting Glaciers Dramatically Alter Canada's Yukon 
https://www.ecowatch.com/melting-glaciers-canada-yukon-2616507348.html

ENVIRONMENT
New Chinese Law a ‘Death Warrant’ for Endangered Rhinos and Tigers 
https://www.ecowatch.com/china-tigers-rhinos-poaching-2616544365.html

Humanity 'Sleepwalking Towards the Edge of a Cliff': 60% of Earth's Wildlife Wiped Out Since 1970
https://www.ecowatch.com/earths-wildlife-wiped-out-since-1970-2616534688.html

NATIONAL SECURITY
China Has Landed 
https://www.nationalreview.com/2018/10/china-global-maritime-commerce-ambitions-us-must-respond/

LAW AND ORDER
Meet the mob hitman suspected of killing Whitey Bulger
https://nypost.com/2018/10/31/meet-the-mob-hitman-suspected-of-killing-whitey-bulger/

MEDIA
Fake News Turns 80
https://www.nationalreview.com/2018/10/orson-welles-war-of-the-worlds-radio-broadcast-news-coverage/

Mollie Hemingway: The Media Told Us that a Serial Rapist Had Been Nominated to the Supreme Court and We Needed to "Believe Victims."  So Why Have They Completely Stopped Reporting on This Story, Now That the "Serial Rapist" is a Justice?
http://ace.mu.nu/archives/377873.php

IMMIGRATION
Can Trump End Birthright Citizenship by Executive Order?
https://www.factcheck.org/2018/10/can-trump-end-birthright-citizenship-by-executive-order/

Harry Reid's 1993 claim that 'no sane country' would provide birthright citizenship fuels GOP immigration push
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/harry-reids-1993-claim-no-sane-country-would-provide-birthright-citizenship-fuels-gop-immigration-push

Illegal Immigration: It's About Power
https://www.prageru.com/videos/illegal-immigration-its-about-power

CARAVAN
The Latest: Migrant caravan fails to arrange buses in Mexico The Latest: Migrant caravan fails to arrange buses in Mexico 
https://start.att.net/news/read/category/midterm%20elections/article/the_associated_press-the_latest_sanders_says_mexico_helping_impede_migr-ap

SAUDI ARABIA
A high-ranking Saudi prince returned home amid the Khashoggi crisis, and it could be a sign of shifting power
https://www.businessinsider.com.au/saudi-prince-ahmed-bin-abdulaziz-returns-home-amid-khashoggi-crisis-2018-10

POLITICS
Flood of campaign cash puts Democratic long shots in striking distance of GOP incumbents
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2018/oct/31/democrats-midterm-spending-exceeds-republican-incu/?utm_source=Boomtrain&utm_medium=manual&utm_campaign=20180326&utm_term=newsalert&utm_content=newsalert&bt_ee=jc8qDsgL3OPwIvjv6L4grV5gyKp5b2sHDWDmg9n%2F6xkD0sw9KgRMwZ5sQ6MXDKPE&bt_ts=1541033371589

Beto O’Rourke Once Supported an El Paso Real Estate Deal. Barrio Residents Remember.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/29/us/politics/beto-orourke-el-paso-texas-senate.html

Pressure grows on House GOP to denounce Steve King
https://thehill.com/homenews/house/414168-pressure-grows-on-house-gop-to-denounce-steve-king

A Bridge to Sell You
http://www.jewishworldreview.com/1018/stossel103118.php3

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"You must never confuse faith that you will prevail in the end – which you can never afford to
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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