PLATT - CURATED News

HURRICANE PREP
The Top 10 Tools to Help You Ride Out the Next Hurricane
https://thewirecutter.com/reviews/top-10-tools-to-help-you-ride-out-the-next-hurricane/?te=1&nl=morning-briefing&emc=edit_NN_p_20190830&section=topNews?campaign_id=9&instance_id=12018&segment_id=16603&user_id=534895be791870e2f49b8be32ff6f7ab&regi_id=58935408tion=topNews

GENERAL INTEREST
"a different sort of book" -- 8/30/19
https://mailchi.mp/delanceyplace.com/a-different-sort-of-book-83019-lllviopp1n?e=a218d00c99

This Week???s News Quiz: The Sackler Family, Boris Johnson and Andrew Luck (10 out of 11)
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/08/30/briefing/sacklers-boris-johnson-andrew-luck-news-quiz.html?%3Fte=1&nl=morning-briefing&emc=edit_NN_p_20190830&section=whatElse%3Fcampaign_id%3D9&instance_id=12018&segment_id=16603&user_id=534895be791870e2f49b8be32ff6f7ab&regi_id=58935408ion%3DwhatElse&auth=login-email

MIND BOGGLING STUPID
Purging Dude Walls Toward Leftist Utopia
https://townhall.com/columnists/davidlimbaugh/2019/08/30/purging-dude-walls-toward-leftist-utopia-n2552389?utm_source=thdaily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl&newsletterad=08/30/2019&bcid=3cb4e56ddeac8885c78e874bb1d8f1a4&recip=27077809

Kansas Professors Demand University Remove 'Bastion Of Bigotry' Chick-Fil-A From Campus 
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/timothymeads/2019/08/29/kansas-professors-demand-university-ditchbastion-of-bigotry-chickfila-n2552388?utm_source=thdaily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl&newsletterad=08/30/2019&bcid=3cb4e56ddeac8885c78e874bb1d8f1a4&recip=27077809

Man sues Popeyes over sold-out chicken sandwich: ???I can???t get happy??? 
https://nypost.com/2019/08/30/man-sues-popeyes-over-sold-out-chicken-sandwich-i-cant-get-happy/?utm_campaign=iosapp&utm_source=mail_app

EDUCATION
Can schools help rid the world of sexual harassers and abusers? 
https://www.csmonitor.com/World/Europe/2018/0228/Can-schools-help-rid-the-world-of-sexual-harassers-and-abusers?cmpid=ema:mkt90day:20190830&src=journey

HERPETOLOGY
Skin-crawling footage reveals the moment an adder slithers out its amniotic sac and takes its first breath
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-7410593/Skin-crawling-footage-reveals-moment-adder-slithers-amniotic-sac.html

CLIMATE CHANGE
???Flight Shame??? Comes to the U.S.???Via Greta Thunberg???s Sailboat 
https://www.wsj.com/articles/flight-shame-comes-to-the-u-s-via-sailboat-11567162801?emailToken=2560b225cc6b82933408d52da77ef75aAbnEzHQ2jRGWZaB5e5LprUUxYWBow8IR2F2G1JOFB8NCzaKhFB0ACUxQpRPgf/yGVffytaCjNyjg5IrFMqoDWwhfxcZaAyjPSPfu4nKZoJY%3D&reflink=article_email_share

CYBER SECURITY
How One Texas County Stopped a Ransomware Attack 
https://www.wsj.com/articles/how-one-texas-county-stopped-a-ransomware-attack-11567169059?emailToken=aeb0f011dfd739f6845275dbfd868337SA64Rl7lYW5XgYOniuWEkGwKU1CWBVUQMEnEja7gBSALH5CGlK8/KfBOGKBo94SRinLFpps6/c/lSb6Yv5MTOOovm2u2egUR4nHC7MmO/6Y%3D&reflink=article_email_share

Google finds 'indiscriminate iPhone attack lasting years'
https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-49520355

What we know about how Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey's account was hacked, and the group called 'Chuckling Squad' who is claiming responsibility 
https://start.att.net/news/read/article/business_insider-what_we_know_about_how_twitter_ceo_jack_dorseys_ac-newscred2/category/news

NATIONAL SECURITY
U.S. Prosecutors Probe Huawei on New Allegations of Technology Theft 
https://www.wsj.com/articles/u-s-prosecutors-probe-huawei-on-new-allegations-of-technology-theft-11567102622?emailToken=52e4ce897e2293a80715b60e9533bb793oP2VrigObHbinlM1VdQZzeLnJZNq6Qh/5iqFBQRF7EUuDV1WjzLuWsBMb7SlZlLO0piec5XoOm/LbBazegwU+q3n9H81h/GzOiv5fjn0oKZuTpl+C12wWAgWciztAjW&reflink=article_email_share

Secretive US government agency needs 'underground lair' by Friday (Comments are pretty good.)
https://www.foxnews.com/tech/secretive-government-agency-darpa-underground-lair

MILITARY
Army National Guard major under scrutiny after telling Biden she's praying he wins the 2020 presidential election ["... while wearing her Army uniform."] 
https://taskandpurpose.com/army-major-biden-video

Officials slam news reporters for misinformation on citizenship 
https://washingtontimes-dc.newsmemory.com/?token=2ca1bab449f4eed383fa72358eab5b26_5d693fa2_5cd1fdb&selDate=20190830&goTo=A03&artid=0&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=washingtontimes-E-Editions&utm_source=washingtontimes&utm_content=Read-Button

IMMIGRATION
ICE rule change on U visas sparks outrage
https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/459316-ice-rule-change-on-u-visas-sparks-outrage?userid=288549

Biden Wants to Shut Down Detention Facilities For Illegal Immigrants: 'We Don't Need Them' 
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/leahbarkoukis/2019/08/30/biden-wants-to-shut-down-detention-facilities-for-illegal-immigrants-n2552433?utm_source=thdailypm&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl_pm&newsletterad=&bcid=3cb4e56ddeac8885c78e874bb1d8f1a4&recip=27077809

RUSSIA
Mysterious explosion - that killed seven people - involving Russia's 'Skyfall' nuclear cruise missile happened during a salvage mission and NOT a test, US intelligence assessment finds
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7409607/Russias-Skyfall-nuclear-cruise-missile-explosion-happened-salvage-mission-intel.html

TRUMPGATE
What to know about Deutsche Bank's Trump-related tax returns
https://thehill.com/policy/finance/459370-what-to-know-about-deutsche-banks-trump-related-tax-returns?userid=288549

POLITICS
Women voters spell trouble for Trump in 2020
https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/459354-women-voters-spell-trouble-for-trump-in-2020?userid=288549

"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)