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GENERAL INTEREST
The 12 Days of Christmas according to "Die Hard"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AuJKVBfWfGs

HEALTH
Everything you think you know about calories is bunkum! Obesity expert Dr Giles Yeo reveals the six pain-free ways to cut down on your intake
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-6522997/Obesity-expert-Dr-Giles-Yeo-reveals-six-pain-free-ways-cut-intake.html

_______ UNHINGED
Mother Harasses Service Animals After Being Told She Can't Pet Them
https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/mother-harasses-animals-being-told-192157465.html

'We're indigenous Moors and we are taking the land back': Squatter who moved into a stranger's half a million dollar home claiming he 'had a right' to the property is arrested and charged with criminal trespass
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6523951/Squatter-moved-500k-home-charged-criminal-trespass.html

Never Fat-Shame a Sea Otter. Never. 
http://www.newser.com/story/269002/aquarium-very-sorry-for-fat-shaming-sea-otter.html?utm_source=part&utm_medium=att&utm_campaign=rss_us_syn

ECONOMY
Partial government shutdown compounds risks for US economy
https://www.apnews.com/4e69bb7b84bc4fca82eb4178ec2ddfa4

ANTHROPOLOGY
Why Did Humans Lose Their Fur?
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/why-did-humans-evolve-lose-fur-180970980/

MYRMECOLOGY
Ant Colonies Retain Memories That Outlast the Lifespans of Individuals
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/ant-colonies-retain-memories-outlast-lifespans-individuals-180971022/

TECHNOLOGY
What are the Top 5 uses of Lidar? Why is Lidar so important?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zREAEdXzOcw

FOREIGN POLICY
U.S. Syria withdrawal 'betrays' legacy of volunteers who died fighting ISIS 
https://www.jpost.com/Middle-East/US-Syria-withdrawal-betrays-legacy-of-volunteers-who-died-fighting-ISIS-575169

NATIONAL SECURITY
Uh Oh: Funds Raised From The Border Wall GoFundMe Account May Have To Be Returned
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/bethbaumann/2018/12/22/uh-oh-funds-raised-from-the-border-wall-gofundme-account-may-have-to-be-returned-n2537980?utm_source=thdaily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl&newsletterad=12/23/2018&bcid=3cb4e56ddeac8885c78e874bb1d8f1a4&recip=27077809

BIG BROTHER
Elon Musk wants to put chips in our brains. I'd prefer to stay human 
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/dec/23/elon-musk-neuralink-chip-brain-implants-humanity

SOCIAL MEDIA
Want to delete Facebook? Read what happened to these people first
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/want-to-delete-facebook-read-what-happened-to-these-people-first-2018-07-27

Twitter needs to prove it’s 'committed to improving' the platform for women
https://thehill.com/opinion/technology/422561-twitter-needs-to-prove-its-committed-to-improving-the-platform-for-women

TERRORISM
Taliban ecstatic that US is pulling troops from Afghanistan
https://nypost.com/2018/12/21/taliban-ecstatic-that-us-is-pulling-troops-from-afghanistan/?utm_campaign=iosapp&utm_source=mail_app

IRAN
Iranian ships fire missiles near American Navy's USS John C. Stennis 
https://www.jpost.com/Middle-East/Iran-fired-missiles-near-the-USS-John-C-Stennis-no-casualties-reported-575055

POLITICS
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Says Congressional Salaries Should Be Furloughed During a Shutdown 
https://start.att.net/news/read/category/news/article/rolling_stone-alexandria_ocasiocortez_says_congressional_salarie-rpenskemc

NYT:  For Trump, ‘a War Every Day,’ Waged Increasingly Alone
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/22/us/politics/trump-two-years.html?action=click&module=Top%20Stories&pgtype=Homepage

WaPo:  ‘A rogue presidency’: The era of containing Trump is over
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/a-rogue-presidency-the-era-of-containing-trump-is-over/2018/12/22/26fc010e-055b-11e9-b5df-5d3874f1ac36_story.html?noredirect=on&utm_term=.9165d3ce306c

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"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)