PLATT - MISC News

What we’ve forgotten about the importance of work
https://nypost.com/2018/11/04/what-weve-forgotten-about-the-importance-of-work/?utm_campaign=iosapp&utm_source=mail_app

GENERAL INTEREST
Chile’s Mysterious Hand In The Desert
https://weather.com/travel/video/chiles-mysterious-hand-in-the-desert?pl=pl-the-latest

Queens girl who fell off cliff escaping rapist finishes marathon on crutches
https://nypost.com/2018/11/04/queens-girl-who-fell-off-cliff-escaping-rapist-finishes-marathon-on-crutches/?utm_campaign=iosapp&utm_source=mail_app

MENTAL HEALTH
Five Choices You Will Regret Forever
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/five-choices-you-regret-forever-dr-travis-bradberry/

PROGRESSIVES UNHINGED
Pete Davidson under fire for poking fun at veteran’s eyepatch
https://pagesix.com/2018/11/04/pete-davidson-under-fire-for-poking-fun-at-veterans-eyepatch/?utm_campaign=iosapp&utm_source=mail_app

FINANCIAL
Fidelity makes gloomy forecast for US elections
https://www.fnlondon.com/articles/us-midterm-elections-could-shock-stock-markets-20181102

Flagstaff considers a do-over on Fight for $15
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/op-eds/flagstaff-considers-a-do-over-on-fight-for-15

ENVIRONMENT
Good environmental news, for once: The ozone layer is healing thanks to worldwide cooperation 
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2018/11/05/ozone-layer-healing-thanks-worldwide-cooperation/1893703002/

ASTRONOMY
Interstellar asteroid could be ‘alien’ mission searching for life
https://nypost.com/2018/11/05/interstellar-asteroid-could-be-alien-mission-searching-for-life/?utm_campaign=iosapp&utm_source=mail_app

NATIONAL SECURITY
Law requiring a birth certificate to register to vote advances to appeals court
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2018/nov/4/birth-certificate-voter-registration-law-moves-app/

FBI seeks info on woman identified as Democratic volunteer after Georgia voter system attacked
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/fbi-seeks-info-on-woman-identified-as-democratic-volunteer-after-georgia-voter-system-attacked

BIG BROTHER
Are you ready for a chip implant? (Interesting comments ,,, )
https://www.foxnews.com/tech/are-you-ready-for-a-chip-implant

SOCIAL MEDIA
I called Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg and Sheryl Sandberg dangerous executives — and was shocked by the vile responses
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/i-called-facebooks-mark-zuckerberg-and-sheryl-sandberg-dangerous-executives-and-was-shocked-by-the-vile-responses-2018-11-02

CARAVAN
Daily Dicta: The Ick Factor in Who’s Funding the Migrant Caravan Class Action
https://www.yahoo.com/finance/news/daily-dicta-ick-factor-funding-085403005.html

IRAN
Iran Vows to Defy Reimposed U.S. Oil, Financial Sanctions
https://www.nationalreview.com/news/iran-vows-to-defy-reimposed-u-s-oil-financial-sanctions/

POLITICS
Tomorrow the RINOs Will Take Their Revenge 
https://www.nationalreview.com/2018/11/midterm-elections-republicans-tainted-by-rinos/

Did Beto Blow It? “Robert Francis O’Rourke is running as ‘Beto,’ and Rafael Cruz is running as ‘Ted,’” ... “Only in Texas could we have the Anglo pretending to be Latino, and the Latino pretending to be Anglo.”
https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2018/11/04/ted-cruz-beto-orourke-texas-senate-2018-election-222188

New Jersey Democrats sound alarm over Menendez race
https://www.politico.com/states/new-jersey/story/2018/11/03/new-jersey-democrats-sound-alarm-over-menendez-race-679717

Democrats hold 6-point generic ballot lead in final American Barometer poll before mid-terms
https://thehill.com/hilltv/what-americas-thinking/414976-democrats-hold-6-point-generic-ballot-lead-in-final-american?userid=288549

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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)