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)

PLATT - CURATED News

GENERAL INTEREST
Traditional Catholic parishes grow even as US Catholicism declines
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/traditional-catholic-parishes-grow-even-as-us-catholicism-declines?utm_source=breaking_push&utm_medium=app&utm_campaign=push_notifications&utm_source=WEX_News%20Brief_11/02/2019&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=WEX_News%20Brief&rid=5044

Vatican launches $110 'click to pray' wearable rosary
https://www.cnn.com/2019/10/16/world/vatican-click-to-pray-erosary-trnd/index.html

HEALTH
Long-awaited cystic fibrosis drug could turn deadly disease into a manageable condition
http://www.jewishworldreview.com/1119/cystic_fibrosis_treatment.php3

Texas woman’s workout triggers potentially deadly condition
https://www.foxnews.com/health/texas-woman-workout-potentially-deadly-condition-rhabdomyolysis

HUMOR
The News in Zingers
http://www.jewishworldreview.com/1119/hamilton110119.php3

EDUCATION
School was painful. So what did he do? He decided to fix things
http://www.jewishworldreview.com/1119/matthews110119.php3

BUSINESS
If You Can Manage a Waffle House, You Can Manage Anything
https://www.wsj.com/articles/if-you-can-manage-a-waffle-house-you-can-manage-anything-11572667205?emailToken=61005beaea0cf444069d075826d08326KfrytBVV6viWVyZ0xwkuYNPhlYABbfF7qKGnbTV1GqkKFy/q1IG+6SLGp0pLJZQfrvB54HxNF9sycFIbKVDnL4BdyTxImzUgBUZKmb/apFjGfzqYQxtm/lGlnuGVM2sn&reflink=article_email_share

FINANCIAL
Can Trump Avoid Taxes by Moving to Florida? It's Not So Simple.
https://news.yahoo.com/trump-avoid-taxes-moving-florida-192159788.html

FEDERAL GOVERNMENT
Decentralizing the Federal Workforce
https://patriotpost.us/articles/66462-decentralizing-the-federal-workforce-2019-10-31

How to Solve the Big Problems That Small Family Farms Are Facing (What is wrong with this picture?)
https://www.ecowatch.com/family-farms-problems-solutions-2641186144.html

ENERGY
The Giga and Terra Scam of Offshore Wind Energy
https://townhall.com/columnists/pauldriessen/2019/11/02/the-giga-and-terra-scam-of-offshore-wind-energy-n2555776?utm_source=thdaily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl&newsletterad=11/02/2019&bcid=3cb4e56ddeac8885c78e874bb1d8f1a4&recip=27077809

SCIENCE
US research into anti-gravity goes back 70 years, report says
https://www.foxnews.com/tech/us-anti-gravity-research-70-years

Otis T. Carr
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otis_T._Carr

ENVIRONMENT
This Is What 2030 Could Look Like if We Win the War on Climate Change
https://www.ecowatch.com/climate-change-success-2030-prediction-2641184888.html

CYBER SECURITY
In this scam, criminals can clean out your financial accounts with just your phone number
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/in-this-scam-criminals-can-clean-out-your-financial-accounts-with-just-your-phone-number-2019-10-29

What is fingerprinting? The online tracking you can't avoid
http://www.jewishworldreview.com/1119/fingerprinting_tracking.php3

NATIONAL SECURITY
Smugglers are sawing through new sections of Trump’s border wall (There are some unasked/unanswered questions in this article ... consider the source.)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/smugglers-are-sawing-through-new-sections-of-trumps-border-wall/2019/11/01/25bf8ce0-fa72-11e9-ac8c-8eced29ca6ef_story.html

LAW AND ORDER
Drones are grounding firefighting helicopters amid Maria fire battle in California
https://nypost.com/2019/11/02/drones-are-grounding-firefighting-helicopters-amid-maria-fire-battle-in-california/?utm_campaign=iosapp&utm_source=mail_app

IMMIGRATION
US judge blocks Trump's health insurance rule for immigrants
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/us-judge-blocks-trumps-health-insurance-rule-for-immigrants/ar-AAJKqrE?ocid=spartandhp

IMPEACHMENT
Court ruling could throw impeachment timeline into disarray
https://news.yahoo.com/court-ruling-could-throw-impeachment-timeline-into-disarray-212205014.html

Bill Maher warns Trump impeachment a 'loser' issue in swing states: 'He's not going to get convicted'
https://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/bill-maher-impeachment-loser-civil-war

What, exactly, is President Trump’s ‘high crime’ here?
https://nypost.com/2019/11/01/what-exactly-is-president-trumps-high-crime-here/?utm_campaign=iosapp&utm_source=mail_app

TRUMPGATE
'Get the emails': Mueller interview notes reveal Trump campaign hunt to damage Clinton
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/get-the-emails-mueller-interview-notes-reveal-trump-campaign-hunt-to-damage-clinton?utm_source=breaking_push&utm_medium=app&utm_campaign=push_notifications&utm_source=WEX_News%20Brief_11/02/2019&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=WEX_News%20Brief&rid=5044

POLITICS
Cancel the primaries
http://www.jewishworldreview.com/cols/jonah110119.php3

End The Democrat Senate Filibuster Against Aurelia Skipwith
https://townhall.com/columnists/nigerinnis/2019/11/02/end-the-democrat-senate-filibuster-against-aurelia-skipwith-n2555701?utm_source=thdaily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl&newsletterad=11/02/2019&bcid=3cb4e56ddeac8885c78e874bb1d8f1a4&recip=27077809

Lost cause? Kamala Harris retreats to Iowa for her last stand
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/kamala-harris-prepares-for-last-stand-in-iowa?utm_source=breaking_push&utm_medium=app&utm_campaign=push_notifications&utm_source=WEX_News%20Brief_11/02/2019&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=WEX_News%20Brief&rid=5044

Democrats say taking the Virginia state legislature could signal national success
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/democrats-say-taking-the-virginia-state-legislature-could-signal-national-success?utm_source=breaking_push&utm_medium=app&utm_campaign=push_notifications&utm_source=WEX_News%20Brief_11/02/2019&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=WEX_News%20Brief&rid=5044

"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)

PLATT - CURATED News

GENERAL INTEREST
The famed Yankee peddlers of early America -- 10/28/19
https://mailchi.mp/delanceyplace.com/the-famed-yankee-peddlers-of-early-america-102819?e=a218d00c99

NYC secretly exports homeless to Hawaii and other states without telling receiving pols
https://nypost.com/2019/10/26/nyc-homeless-initiative-sends-people-across-us-without-telling-receiving-cities/?utm_campaign=iosapp&utm_source=mail_app

Motorcyclist Who Identifies As Bicyclist Sets Cycling World Record
https://babylonbee.com/news/motorcycle-that-identifies-as-bicycle-sets-world-cycling-record

HEALTH
WHO AFRO - Outbreaks and Emergencies Bulletin - Week 43/2019
http://newsletters.afro.who.int/outbreaks-weekly-bulletin/afvv8xlzagl1hj3oiwqrmm?email=true&a=11&p=55870788

HEALTH CARE
Revenge of the Public Option
https://www.nationalreview.com/2019/10/revenge-of-the-public-option/

Someone needs to say it: Medicare-for-all is a pipe dream
http://www.jewishworldreview.com/1019/rahmbo_medicaid_for_all.php3

CULTURE
Kanye West???s Conversion Could Be a Cultural Wrecking Ball
https://www.nationalreview.com/2019/10/kanye-wests-conversion-could-be-a-cultural-wrecking-ball/?utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=NR%20Daily%20Monday%20through%20Friday%202019-10-28&utm_term=NRDaily-Smart

HUMOR
The News in Zingers
http://www.jewishworldreview.com/1019/hamilton102819.php3

EDUCATION
A Charter-School Leader Was Fired for Publicly Worrying about Academic Excellence (... another victim of Progressive's stupidity ...)
https://www.nationalreview.com/2019/10/accomplished-charter-school-leader-fired-for-publicly-worrying-about-academic-excellence/

Daydreaming is good for you, and other things I want kids to know about their brains
http://www.jewishworldreview.com/1019/daydreaming_good.php3

Kids are sharing PSAT answers online and that's fine
http://www.jewishworldreview.com/1019/carter102819.php3

BUSINESS
The WeWork story is so bizarre we can't even get outraged about it
http://jewishworldreview.com/1019/McArdle102819.php3

The Gig???s Up for Freelancers
https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-gigs-up-for-freelancers-11572208945?emailToken=25c5f6067eb156cf917afe25cc168e9er8LtQzg976QhDWJaVAPn28UN7gmJSYoD6L5rR5GzPez6eotSn4QNa6w/KqU3+6FSq0bQMkNep+5gEf/yVfwyPA%3D%3D&reflink=article_email_share

FINANCIAL
The Deficit Is a Popularity Problem
https://www.nationalreview.com/2019/10/the-deficit-is-a-popularity-problem/?utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=NR%20Daily%20Monday%20through%20Friday%202019-10-28&utm_term=NRDaily-Smart

WILDFIRES
California fires: When disaster fans flames of inequality
https://news.yahoo.com/california-fires-disaster-fans-flames-174519885.html

SPACE
Space satellite crash-lands in front yard of Michigan home
https://nypost.com/2019/10/27/space-satellite-crash-lands-in-front-yard-of-michigan-home-stuck-in-tree/?utm_campaign=iosapp&utm_source=mail_app

Air Force???s secretive X-37B ???spaceplane??? lands after record 780 days in orbit
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/air-forces-secretive-x-37b-spaceplane-lands-after-record-718-days-in-orbit-2019-10-27

CYBER SECURITY
Here's what keeps British cybersecurity officials up at night: New report on digital threats should be of interest to U.S. policymakers
http://www.jewishworldreview.com/1019/cyberthreats.php3

FOREIGN POLICY
Why the U.S. needs 'dual track' diplomacy
https://washingtontimes-dc.newsmemory.com/?token=627375bc04aa536285c1a3dde4c875c6_5db706e6_5cd1fdb&selDate=20191028&goTo=B01&artid=0&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=washingtontimes-E-Editions&utm_source=washingtontimes&utm_content=Read-Button

State Dept. Used Media Tracking Tool to Monitor Journalists, Trump Allies
https://www.judicialwatch.org/corruption-chronicles/state-dept-used-soros-linked-media-tracking-tool-to-monitor-journalists-trump-allies/

DEFENSE
The Air Force and Trump Turnberry
https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-air-force-and-trump-turnberry-11572209282?emailToken=b8bb540dfbb5f0a27c8b6aeadad53bb22ZLYAADwG5nCvuJhHlpOwd8n7rVXkd6LeV42b5OIblSIdwM/miTZNzAsSVfhylfYQW5dQDiEnKvQtev8Idgl/Q%3D%3D&reflink=article_email_share

MILITARY
'Special breed of courageous': Delta Force operator hails valor of military dog wounded in Baghdadi raid
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/defense-national-security/special-breed-of-courageous-delta-force-operator-hails-valor-of-military-dog-wounded-in-baghdadi-raid?utm_source=breaking_push&utm_medium=app&utm_campaign=push_notifications&utm_source=WEX_News%20Brief_10/28/2019&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=WEX_News%20Brief&rid=5044

LAW AND THE COURTS
Judge reopens Covington Catholic High student's defamation suit against Washington Post
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/judge-reopens-covington-catholic-high-students-defamation-suit-against-washington-post/ar-AAJuTvo?ocid=spartandhp

BIG BROTHER
The Patriot Act Goes Too Far
https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-patriot-act-goes-too-far-11572209177?emailToken=3c18a85d13ebf1dde67f84b73ca2db27PhzW+ZZDxwuQNctT9kXmk3HX4DskjzpAl/Z7UGsgfQrhMkMoByf4kNSoGEL/l+VspX1z2qi4BaCCbfT4u32ThA%3D%3D&reflink=article_email_share

TERRORISM
ISIS after Baghdadi? Why experts urge sustained vigilance.
https://www.csmonitor.com/World/Middle-East/2019/1028/ISIS-after-Baghdadi-Why-experts-urge-sustained-vigilance

IMPEACHMENT
John Kelly Warned Trump He???d Be impeached If His Next Chief of Staff Was a ???Yes Man???
https://www.nationalreview.com/news/john-kelly-warned-trump-hed-be-impeached-if-his-next-chief-of-staff-was-a-yes-man/

Chief justice???s remarks on Trump raise impeachment recusal calls
https://washingtontimes-dc.newsmemory.com/?token=627375bc04aa536285c1a3dde4c875c6_5db706e6_5cd1fdb&selDate=20191028&goTo=A01&artid=2&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=washingtontimes-E-Editions&utm_source=washingtontimes&utm_content=Read-Button

Roger Stone Says You???re ???Naive??? If You Think A Trump Senate Acquittal Is Automatic. Here???s Why He May Be Right
https://townhall.com/columnists/scottmorefield/2019/10/28/roger-stone-says-youre-naive-if-you-think-a-trump-senate-acquittal-is-automatic-heres-why-he-may-be-right-n2555428?utm_source=thdaily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl&newsletterad=10/28/2019&bcid=3cb4e56ddeac8885c78e874bb1d8f1a4&recip=27077809

POLITICS
America's current political moment might be so bad that it becomes good
http://www.jewishworldreview.com/cols/will102619.php3

The Memo: What the leading 2020 Dems need to do
https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/467540-the-memo-what-the-leading-2020-dems-need-to-do

Will Hillary Run Again?
https://www.nationalreview.com/2019/10/will-hillary-run-again/?utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=NR%20Daily%20Monday%20through%20Friday%202019-10-28&utm_term=NRDaily-Smart

"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)