PLATT - CURATED News

GENERAL INTEREST
People Who Vanished Into Thin Air at the Michigan Triangle
https://mysteriousuniverse.org/2019/10/people-who-vanished-into-thin-air-at-the-michigan-triangle/

Sam Adams is releasing a beer illegal in 15 states. Here???s how you can get a taste.
https://www.kentucky.com/news/business/bourbon-industry/article236232208.html?fbclid=IwAR2Z_WtsimBIFxwYXacpEij7pGqaTa060sDV6AyylopuFX59aAVkkeg9evA

Barber accommodates boy with autism, cuts hair outside
https://www.foxnews.com/lifestyle/barber-accomodate-autistic-boy

Texas longhorn named Bucklehead breaks world record for horn span: See the pics
https://www.foxnews.com/us/texas-longhorn-breaks-longest-horn-span-world-record-see-the-pics

XXXXXX DERANGED
Ohio student allegedly threatened to shoot people if he couldn't join the Marine Corps
https://taskandpurpose.com/high-school-felon-marines

Owner of restaurant at famous ???Friends??? location is tired of ???annoying??? tourists
https://nypost.com/2019/10/19/owner-of-restaurant-at-famous-friends-location-is-tired-of-annoying-tourists/?utm_campaign=iosapp&utm_source=mail_app

BUSINESS
First Chick-fil-A in the UK to close just 6 months after opening amid LGBTQ protests
https://www.foxnews.com/food-drink/lgbtq-protests-force-first-chick-fil-a-in-the-uk-to-close-just-6-months-after-opening

LITERATURE
???The Ministry of Truth??? and ???On Nineteen Eighty-Four??? Review: An Enduring Vision of Tyranny
https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-ministry-of-truth-and-on-nineteen-eighty-four-review-an-enduring-vision-of-tyranny-11571409744?emailToken=dc5c8d2f8e2af90b1429f6d363c808b5uzecT2t25sxEZoYFK/lLdqZ+ieGUyrSL8SfXJwsxfWgcbU02swbEuXd8yZV0AQ2JMECsj+h/EF/droHchNxiphZVK3MkBc1BGmHVebjVk+4SvT0PS6KPV5nAGUFq7bxmkz3XC5aHH+ltnprHKEBK/sdE+JiP6tnQfIyc3W4qXy4%3D&reflink=article_email_share

EDUCATION
Principal lets students pass even if they never went to class
https://nypost.com/2018/06/16/high-school-lets-students-pass-even-if-they-never-went-to-class/

Three Prison Inmates Beat Harvard in a Debate. Here???s What Happened Next.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/three-prison-inmates-beat-harvard-in-a-debate-heres-what-happened-next-11571490001?emailToken=a6333954c4026a72e50540028ff15ed3EfGBE7OeZbsoUrSg6kHVDIQHN+sGFkEkpFAIh4znihz/C5mizGzfrPfvyoI60IZrDA951ndrt8Jo31Y1ESM1lwRlgJ800KlgoBED4y5of+acwIEJnT1NON4r/VxQfTU0c4z91vkHHILBmokYlVzx2w%3D%3D&reflink=article_email_share

FINANCIAL
Why Is a Secretive Billionaire Buying Up the Cayman Islands?
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/18/business/kenneth-dart-cayman-islands.html?te=1&nl=morning-briefing&emc=edit_nn_20191020?campaign_id=9&instance_id=13236&segment_id=18072&user_id=534895be791870e2f49b8be32ff6f7ab&regi_id=58935408

TECHNOLOGY
Small Policy Tweaks Won???t Fix Facebook
https://www.nationalreview.com/2019/10/facebook-free-speech-small-policy-tweaks-wont-fix-social-media-giant/?utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=WIR%20-%20Sunday%202019-10-20&utm_term=WIR-Smart

CYBER SECURITY
Sinister prankster hacks Nest camera, threatens to kidnap baby
https://nypost.com/2019/10/19/sinister-prankster-hacks-nest-camera-threatens-to-kidnap-baby/?utm_campaign=iosapp&utm_source=mail_app

Elon Musk regularly destroys his phones for 'security purposes
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-7589861/Court-documents-reveal-Elon-Musk-regularly-destroys-phones-switches-security-purposes.html

Students wanted to win a water-gun fight ??? so they hacked thousands of records, school says
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/students-wanted-to-win-a-water-gun-fight-???-so-they-hacked-thousands-of-records-school-says/ar-AAJ5cGP?ocid=spartandhp

FOREIGN POLICY
Trump claims US has 'secured the oil' in the Middle East [what the hell is he talking about?]
https://taskandpurpose.com/trump-middle-east-oil

MILITARY
'She's well worth it' ??? Third-generation sailor pinned by Navy vet father and grandfather
https://taskandpurpose.com/navy-corpsman-pinned-father-grandfather

LAW AND ORDER
Hikers Find Mystery Skeleton on Remote Mountain in California
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/hikers-find-mystery-skeleton-on-remote-mountain-in-california/ar-AAJ1yNV?ocid=spartandhp

IMMIGRATION
In San Diego, officials say new wall is helping bring border numbers down
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/in-san-diego-as-the-wall-goes-up-border-apprehensions-are-going-down

MIDDLE EAST
Kurdish, Syrian, and Turkish Ironies
https://www.nationalreview.com/2019/10/kurdish-syrian-turkish-ironies/?utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=WIR%20-%20Sunday%202019-10-20&utm_term=WIR-Smart

HRC RUNNING AMOK
Tulsi Gabbard: 'They will destroy you' if you stand up to Clinton
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/tulsi-gabbard-they-will-destroy-you-if-you-stand-up-to-clinton?utm_source=WEX_News%20Brief_10/20/2019&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=WEX_News%20Brief&rid=5044

Trump criticizes Clinton for suggesting Jill Stein was Russian asset
https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/466593-trump-criticizes-clinton-for-suggesting-jill-stein-was-russian-asset

Does Everyone Believe Hillary Is Crazy Now?
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/bronsonstocking/2019/10/19/democrats-flocking-to-tulsi-gabbards-defense-n2555050?utm_source=thdaily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl&newsletterad=10/20/2019&bcid=3cb4e56ddeac8885c78e874bb1d8f1a4&recip=27077809

CLINTONGATE
Clinton email probe finds no deliberate mishandling of classified information
https://taskandpurpose.com/clinton-emails-classified

IMPEACHMENT
The Trivialization of Impeachment
https://www.nationalreview.com/2019/10/trivialization-of-impeachment-has-consequences-that-threaten-liberty/?utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=WIR%20-%20Sunday%202019-10-20&utm_term=WIR-Smart

A House In The Hamptons
https://townhall.com/columnists/gilgutknecht/2019/10/20/a-house-in-the-hamptons-n2555048?utm_source=thdaily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl&newsletterad=10/20/2019&bcid=3cb4e56ddeac8885c78e874bb1d8f1a4&recip=27077809

POTUS
In Bracing Terms, Trump Invokes War???s Human Toll to Defend His Policies
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/19/us/politics/trump-war-foreign-policy.html?auth=login-email&emc=edit_nn_20191020%3Fcampaign_id%3D9&instance_id=13236&login=email&nl=morning-briefing&regi_id=58935408&segment_id=18072&te=1&user_id=534895be791870e2f49b8be32ff6f7ab

POLITICS
Dems' 'ranked-choice' voting bill dangerously undermines states' rights under Constitution
https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/tara-ross-dems-election-bill-undermines-constitution

Why AOC decided to pick sides in 2020 election
https://thehill.com/opinion/campaign/466484-why-aoc-decided-to-pick-sides-in-2020-election

"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)