PLATT - CURATED News

HEALTH
Germany: Infectious Diseases Spreading as Migrants Settle In
https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/10676/germany-migrants-infectious

Explosion at Russian research lab that stores smallpox virus
https://www.foxnews.com/world/russian-lab-smallpox-explosion

HEALTH CARE
Is Medicare a Lean, Mean, Money-Saving Machine?
https://townhall.com/columnists/youngvoicesadvocates/2019/09/17/is-medicare-a-lean-mean-moneysaving-machine-n2553192?utm_source=thdaily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl&newsletterad=09/17/2019&bcid=3cb4e56ddeac8885c78e874bb1d8f1a4&recip=27077809

WAFWOT
Merriam-Webster Adds Non-Binary Definition of ???They??? to Dictionary
https://www.nationalreview.com/news/merriam-webster-adds-non-binary-definition-of-they-to-dictionary/

HUMOR
The News in Zingers
http://www.jewishworldreview.com/0919/hamilton.php3

TRAVEL
NatGeo Travel: Explore America???s most walkable cities, try food on a stick at a massive state fair, and more
https://email.nationalgeographic.com/H/2/v40000016d408c350f85e03f6e966eb1e0/e41e229f-5d87-44c2-9590-2dcc9a062a58/HTML

HISTORY
The order that led to the American revolution -- 9/17/19
https://mailchi.mp/delanceyplace.com/the-disease-and-devastation-of-london-1147437?e=a218d00c99

FINANCIAL
A crack just emerged in the financial markets: The New York Fed spends $53 billion to rescue the overnight lending market
https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/markets/a-crack-just-emerged-in-the-financial-markets-the-new-york-fed-spends-dollar53-billion-to-rescue-the-overnight-lending-market/ar-AAHr9oG?ocid=spartandhp

BUSINESS
Young People Are Going to Save Us All From Office Life
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/17/style/generation-z-millennials-work-life-balance.html?te=1&nl=evening-briefing&emc=edit_ne_20190917?campaign_id=57&instance_id=12454&segment_id=17101&user_id=534895be791870e2f49b8be32ff6f7ab&regi_id=58935408

DEFENSE
Locked and Loaded: Could Iran Sink the U.S. Navy If War Breaks Out?
https://nationalinterest.org/blog/buzz/locked-and-loaded-could-iran-sink-us-navy-if-war-breaks-out-80851

How were low-tech drones able to pierce Saudi Arabian security? Defence system called into question despite country spending $65bn on arms last year including US radar and Patriot missiles - as mocking Putin says they should have bought Russian
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7472237/How-low-tech-drones-able-pierce-Saudi-Arabian-security.html

This 400-pound feral hog is one of more than 1,200 that have invaded a Texas Air Force base since 2016
https://taskandpurpose.com/feral-hogs-air-force-jbsa

LAW AND ORDER
Why This Scientist Keeps Receiving Packages of Serial Killers??? Hair
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/16/science/hair-dna-murder.html?auth=login-email&emc=edit_NN_p_20190917&instance_id=12433&login=email&nl=morning-briefing&regi_id=58935408ion%3DlongRead&section=longRead%3Fcampaign_id%3D9&segment_id=17077&te=1&user_id=534895be791870e2f49b8be32ff6f7ab

IMMIGRATION
This Constitution Week, America welcomes 34,000 new legal citizens
https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/ken-cuccinelli-constitution-week-citizens

French Dunkirk camp cleared as migrants try to reach UK
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-49727513

MIDDLE EAST
Iran will keep escalating until Trump hits back ??? or folds
https://nypost.com/2019/09/16/iran-will-keep-escalating-until-trump-hits-back-or-folds/?utm_campaign=iosapp&utm_source=mail_app

POTUS
How Trump???s ???startling blunt exercise in socialism??? is overlooked by his backers
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/how-trumps-startling-blunt-exercise-in-socialism-is-overlooked-by-his-backers-2019-09-16

POLITICS
Warren makes her move
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/warren-makes-her-move?utm_source=WEX_News%20Brief_09/17/2019&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=WEX_News%20Brief&rid=5044

Brett Kavanaugh, Susan Collins, and what Maine women think
https://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Politics/2019/0916/Brett-Kavanaugh-Susan-Collins-and-what-Maine-women-think?cmpid=ema:mkt:20190917&src=highlight

"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)