PLATT - CURATED News

Victor Davis Hanson: Socialism guarantees failure and suffering ??? So why do so many Americans support it?
https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/victor-davis-hanson-history-socialism

We Need Steady Leadership -- Not Fire-Starters -- to Guide a Divided Nation
https://townhall.com/columnists/armstrongwilliams/2019/11/07/we-need-steady-leadership--not-firestarters--to-guide-a-divided-nation-n2556067?utm_source=thdaily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl&newsletterad=11/07/2019&bcid=3cb4e56ddeac8885c78e874bb1d8f1a4&recip=27077809

GENERAL INTEREST
???Paging Epstein Coverup???: Airport says message was a mistake
https://nypost.com/2019/11/07/paging-epstein-coverup-airport-says-message-was-a-mistake/?utm_campaign=iosapp&utm_source=mail_app

The Rube Goldberg Machine Law
https://blogforboys.net/2019/11/the-rube-goldberg-machine-law.html

HEALTH
I Was the Fastest Girl in America, Until I Joined Nike
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/07/opinion/nike-running-mary-cain.html?te=1&nl=morning-briefing&emc=edit_NN_p_20191107&section=longRead?campaign_id=9&instance_id=13673&segment_id=18588&user_id=534895be791870e2f49b8be32ff6f7ab&regi_id=58935408ion=longRead

EDUCATION
Flint???s Children Suffer in Class After Years of Drinking the Lead-Poisoned Water
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/06/us/politics/flint-michigan-schools.html?te=1&nl=morning-briefing&emc=edit_NN_p_20191107&section=topNews?campaign_id=9&instance_id=13673&segment_id=18588&user_id=534895be791870e2f49b8be32ff6f7ab&regi_id=58935408tion=topNews

MIND BOGGLING STUPID
Harvard Law School traces its origins to an Antiguan slave owner. Now the country is demanding reparations
http://jewishworldreview.com/1119/harvard_reparations.php3

CLIMATE CHANGE
Climate Stalinism
https://www.city-journal.org/radical-green-movement

SPACE
Kilometer-Long Space Tether Tests Fuel-Free Propulsion
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/kilometer-long-space-tether-tests-fuel-free-propulsion/?te=1&nl=morning-briefing&emc=edit_NN_p_20191107&section=backStory?campaign_id=9&instance_id=13673&segment_id=18588&user_id=534895be791870e2f49b8be32ff6f7ab&regi_id=58935408on=backStory

TECHNOLOGY
Teenager Wins $25,000 for Science Project That Solves Blind Spots in Cars
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/07/us/blind-spots-science-project.html?te=1&nl=evening-briefing&emc=edit_ne_20191107?campaign_id=57&instance_id=13699&segment_id=18618&user_id=534895be791870e2f49b8be32ff6f7ab&regi_id=58935408

Wanted: 'Friendly' human face for global army of humanoid robots. Apply within
http://www.jewishworldreview.com/1119/humanoid_robot_faces.php3

CYBER SECURITY
FBI warns of new cyber threat to US that involves 'whole variety' of actors from China
https://www.foxnews.com/tech/fbi-warns-new-cyber-threat-china

NATIONAL SECURITY
A Military Camera Said ???Made in U.S.A.??? The Screen Was in Chinese.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/a-military-camera-said-made-in-usa-the-screen-was-in-chinese/ar-BBWqJkv?ocid=spartandhp

Could the world cope if GPS stopped working?
https://www.bbc.com/news/business-49985957

FOREIGN POLICY
Testimony: How Trump helped Ukraine
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/columnists/testimony-how-trump-helped-ukraine?utm_source=breaking_push&utm_medium=app&utm_campaign=push_notifications&utm_source=WEX_News%20Brief_11/07/2019&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=WEX_News%20Brief&rid=5044

MILITARY
Profiles of Valor: U.S. Army Master Sgt. Matthew Williams
https://patriotpost.us/articles/66631?mailing_id=4639&utm_medium=email&utm_source=pp.email.4639&utm_campaign=snapshot&utm_content=body

LAW AND ORDER
Death sentence for fentanyl trafficker in China after tip-off from the United States
https://www.scmp.com/news/china/society/article/3036720/death-sentence-fentanyl-trafficker-china-after-tip-united-states

IRAN
Iran cancels accreditation of IAEA nuclear inspector
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-50329647

IMPEACHMENT
Legal scholars see no [illegal] ???quid pro quo??? crime
https://washingtontimes-dc.newsmemory.com/?token=fce3cadeda778445143f0b9efc6f6694_5dc45315_5cd1fdb&selDate=20191107&goTo=A01&artid=0&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=washingtontimes-E-Editions&utm_source=washingtontimes&utm_content=Read-Button

"Whistleblower" attorney exposed as a leftist hack who called for a coup against Trump.
https://patriotpost.us/articles/66643?mailing_id=4639&utm_medium=email&utm_source=pp.email.4639&utm_campaign=snapshot&utm_content=body

Whistleblower not entitled to anonymity ??? He???s an informant acting as a Democratic operative
https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/gregg-jarrett-whistleblower-not-entitled-to-anonymity-hes-an-informant-acting-as-a-democratic-operative

Senate Republicans consider including Bidens in Trump impeachment trial
http://www.jewishworldreview.com/1119/biden_impeachment.php3

POLITICS
A nightmare scenario for 2020: A tie that can't be broken. It's conceivable
http://www.jewishworldreview.com/1119/lane110719.php3

Has Elizabeth Warren Wrecked the Left?
https://www.wsj.com/articles/has-elizabeth-warren-wrecked-the-left-11573084685?emailToken=691aa54167ad2aabd7461cbee0601008me8fF/NyaTnBzKqh++VVCwFUq/MSjeL5glyENE4kVeC17BuT17MAHuQcp+y3Zh+MDqf/QzWXgwap2I4VCei174kJly1T4ecsEs9MeIQXHGs%3D&reflink=article_email_share

Bill Gates takes on Elizabeth Warren over tax policy, 'not sure how open-minded she is'
https://www.foxnews.com/tech/bill-gates-attacks-elizabeth-warren-tax-policy

"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)