PLATT - CURATED News

GENERAL INTEREST
Bad Laws Cause Homeless Crisis
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b9pgh5EO6lw

Keillor:  Winter is winter, it's not the tribulation 
http://www.jewishworldreview.com/0219/keillor021119.php3

HEALTH
Is any smoking safe? Cigarettes, vaping and heated tobacco ALL 'cause serious lung damage'
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-6691137/Heated-tobacco-devices-NOT-safe-cause-lung-damage-cigarettes-experts-say.html

HEALTH CARE
Millions of people in the UK must travel to GP surgeries in areas with 'toxic' air pollution which can cause cancer and dementia
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-6690905/Millions-people-UK-travel-GP-surgeries-areas-toxic-air-pollution.html

HUMOR
The News in Zingers 
http://www.jewishworldreview.com/0219/hamilton021119.php3

Customers continued to wait at A&W's drive-through even though it was on fire
https://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/ny-news-aw-restaurant-winnipeg-fire-20190211-story.html

BUSINESS
From Foxconn to Electrolux, Corporate Welfare Is a Dead End 
https://www.nationalreview.com/2019/02/foxconn-electrolux-corporate-welfare-dead-end/?utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=NR%20Daily%20Monday%20through%20Friday%202019-02-11&utm_term=NRDaily-Smart

thanks, TM


ORNITHOLOGY
Get to Know These 15 Common Birds
https://www.audubon.org/news/get-know-these-15-common-birds?ms=digital-eng-email-ea-x-engagement_20190211_common-birds_medium&utm_source=ea&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=engagement_20190211_common-birds&utm_content=medium

Cornell Lab eNews
https://us2.campaign-archive.com/?u=b35ddb671faf4a16c0ce32406&id=72de864285&e=b6d4e0949c

COURTS AND THE LAW
Federal judge orders university to reinstate Christian group booted for not allowing gay leaders
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/federal-judge-orders-university-to-reinstate-christian-group-booted-for-not-allowing-gay-leaders

IMMIGRATION
America Wants Legal Immigrants
https://www.prageru.com/videos/america-wants-legal-immigrants

Some 42 million Latin Americans say they want to move to the US - and 5 million plan to do so WITHIN 12 months, new poll shows
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6689649/Some-42-million-Latin-Americans-say-want-U-S.html

U.S. faces highest rate of illegal entry since 2007 
https://washingtontimes-dc.newsmemory.com/?token=e7d5c369166cb3276b3d6b0042d433c5_5c61bca3_5cd1fdb&selDate=20190211&goTo=A01&artid=1&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=washingtontimes-E-Editions&utm_source=washingtontimes&utm_content=Read-Button

VENEZUELA
Maduro will step down soon enough, former Venezuela opposition leader says
https://nypost.com/2019/02/09/maduro-will-step-down-soon-enough-former-venezuela-opposition-leader-says/?utm_campaign=iosapp&utm_source=mail_app

VIRGINIA
Why Should Gov. Northam Resign? 
http://www.jewishworldreview.com/0219/bernie_g021119.php

TRUMPGATE
Robert Mueller has spent two years investigating Trump and he hasn't said a word. It's possible he never will.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2019/02/11/special-counsel-robert-mueller-may-not-say-anything-russia-probe/1422892002/

POLITICS
Negotiators say they reached an agreement in principle to avert shutdown
https://start.att.net/news/read/article/cnn-key_hill_negotiators_say_they_have_reached_an_agre-cnn2/category/news

Are We Really on the Brink of Electing a Socialist President?
https://www.nationalreview.com/2019/02/socialism-democrats-move-left-disengaged-voters-may-follow/?utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=NR%20Daily%20Monday%20through%20Friday%202019-02-11&utm_term=NRDaily-Smart

Omar apologizes after Dem leaders blast tweets as 'anti-Semitic'
https://thehill.com/homenews/house/429461-omar-apologizes-after-dem-leaders-blast-tweets-as-anti-semitic?userid=288549


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which you can never afford to lose – with the discipline to confront
the most brutal facts of your current reality, whatever they might be."
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