PLATT - CURATED News

GENERAL INTEREST
The West Omaha Rock
https://imgur.com/gallery/5uOM0KN

Arizona ???Wizard Rock,??? missing 1-ton boulder, mysteriously returns
https://www.foxnews.com/science/arizona-wizard-rock-missing-1-ton-boulder-mysteriously-returns

Historic iron scow moves for first time in 101 years, closer to Niagara Falls ledge
https://www.foxnews.com/world/iron-scow-canada-moves-niagara-falls

Inside America's Aladdin's cave of dead animals
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-49941841

HEALTH
Where you live may affect how many years you have left
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/where-you-live-may-affect-how-many-years-you-have-left-2019-10-30

What Sunlight Does To Your Brain Will Make You Want More Of It
https://www.bustle.com/p/what-sunlight-does-to-your-brain-will-make-you-want-more-of-it-19279417

Yoga teachers 'risking serious hip problems'
https://www.bbc.com/news/health-50181155

HEALTH CARE
America???s Miracle Medicines
https://www.wsj.com/articles/americas-miracle-medicines-11572649241?emailToken=2a59bf02dd0b47eb5518ffdd35538f7d5ydo7QC1XhpT7YMvCSy79N5w2dOZ3KwyxrXqifIF2mIXJ0n4+axNoMnv12VBkjAE5ffH6hqCi0kXGPHHoIxHxA%3D%3D&reflink=article_email_share

Michael Bennett Slams Warren???s Medicare for All Plan: The ???New Numbers are Simply Not Believable???
https://news.yahoo.com/michael-bennett-slams-warren-medicare-183238001.html

Warren health care plan would be a devastating national nightmare and harm all Americans
https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/justin-haskins-warren-health-care-plan-would-be-a-national-nightmare-that-would-harm-all-americans

CULTURE
Old White Men
https://ninetymilesfromtyranny.blogspot.com/2019/11/old-white-men.html

TIME
thanks, TM ...
Busy, cold night?? at Stonehenge as they move the rocks back an hour


thanks, PH ...
When a woman says 5 minutes, think 5 minutes left in the 4th quarter and both teams have all their timeouts left.

TRAVEL
The TSA Knew Customers Hated The Process. Then It Decided To Really Rub People The Wrong Way
https://www.inc.com/chris-matyszczyk/the-tsa-knew-customers-hated-process-then-it-decided-to-really-rub-people-wrong-way.html

AGRICULTURE
The Money Farmers: How Oligarchs and Populists Milk the E.U. for Millions [... the focus in Brussels isn???t on rooting out corruption or tightening controls. Instead, lawmakers are moving to give national leaders more authority on how they spend money ??? over the objections of internal auditors.]
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/03/world/europe/eu-farm-subsidy-hungary.html?te=1&nl=morning-briefing&emc=edit_nn_20191103?campaign_id=9&instance_id=13582&segment_id=18481&user_id=534895be791870e2f49b8be32ff6f7ab&regi_id=58935408

How Shropshire ideas may help the angry rewilding debate
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-shropshire-50169027

WILDFIRES
Hundreds of cameras are set up in the state to watch for wildfires. One captured the moment the devastating Kincade fire erupted.
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/11/01/us/california-kincade-fire.html?te=1&nl=morning-briefing&emc=edit_nn_20191103?campaign_id=9&instance_id=13582&segment_id=18481&user_id=534895be791870e2f49b8be32ff6f7ab&regi_id=58935408

???Not our mission???: private fire crews protect the insured, not the public
https://news.yahoo.com/not-mission-private-fire-crews-110022972.html

ENVIRONMENT
Nat Geo:?? Why does the Arctic have more plastic than most places on Earth?
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/2019/10/remote-arctic-contains-more-plastic-than-most-places-on-earth/

SPACE
Breathtaking Image Shows Clouds on Jupiter Soaring Above Its Swirling Atmosphere
https://www.sciencealert.com/breathtaking-image-shows-clouds-on-jupiter-soaring-above-its-swirling-atmosphere

Boeing prepares key test for Starliner spacecraft
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/boeing-prepares-key-test-for-starliner-spacecraft/ar-AAJNQze?ocid=spartandhp

ORNITHOLOGY
Vanishing: More Than 1 in 4 Birds Has Disappeared in the Last 50 Years
https://www.allaboutbirds.org/vanishing-1-in-4-birds-gone/

TECHNOLOGY
Stop robocalls with free solutions from AT&T, Verizon, T-Mobile and Sprint
https://www.foxnews.com/tech/stop-robocalls-with-free-solutions-from-att-verizon-t-mobile-and-sprint

SCAMS
'Free trials' are costing Americans a fortune
https://www.foxbusiness.com/money/free-trials-costing-americans-fortune

LAW AND ORDER
Antifa-linked defendant gets 6 years in brutal baton attack in Portland: reports
https://www.foxnews.com/us/antifa-linked-defendant-gets-6-years-in-brutal-baton-attack-in-portland-reports

SOCIAL MEDIA
Trump???s Twitter Presidency: 9 Key Takeaways
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/02/us/trump-twitter-takeaways.html?auth=login-email&emc=edit_nn_20191103%3Fcampaign_id%3D9&instance_id=13582&login=email&nl=morning-briefing&regi_id=58935408&segment_id=18481&te=1&user_id=534895be791870e2f49b8be32ff6f7ab

POTUS
Doug Wead: I interviewed the Trump family for two years and THIS is what I found
https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/doug-wead-heres-how-are-the-president-and-his-circle-are-coping-with-the-constant-onslaught

POLITICS
How centrist Dems learned to stop worrying and love impeachment
https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/468636-how-centrist-dems-learned-to-stop-worrying-and-love-impeachment

Democrats are stealing old ideas from Europe just as Europe abandons them
https://nypost.com/2019/11/02/democrats-are-stealing-old-ideas-from-europe-just-as-europe-abandons-them/?utm_campaign=iosapp&utm_source=mail_app

Liberals Just Can???t Help Themselves
https://townhall.com/columnists/derekhunter/2019/11/03/liberals-just-cant-help-themselves-n2555786?utm_source=thdaily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl&newsletterad=11/03/2019&bcid=3cb4e56ddeac8885c78e874bb1d8f1a4&recip=27077809

"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)