PLATT - MISC News

GENERAL INTEREST

5 things to know about Guantanamo Bay on its 115th birthday
https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/ct-guantanamo-bay-115-birthday-20181210-story.html

Chocolate river flows through town in scene straight out of ‘Willy Wonka’
https://nypost.com/2018/12/12/chocolate-river-flows-through-town-in-scene-straight-out-of-willy-wonka/?utm_campaign=iosapp&utm_source=mail_app

Historic Site Near Stonehenge Reportedly Damaged During Highway Construction Project
https://weather.com/news/trending/video/historic-site-near-stonehenge-reportedly-damaged-during-highway-construction?pl=pl-the-latest

Horrors and heroes of the Korean War come to life in colorized images from the brutal conflict
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6482847/Horrors-heroes-Korean-War-come-life-colourised-images-brutal-conflict.html

PHYSICAL HEALTH
Lethal combination: Drug cocktail turns off the juice to cancer cells
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/12/181211113024.htm

Space doesn’t harm this important part of the human body
https://nypost.com/2018/12/12/space-doesnt-harm-this-important-part-of-the-human-body/?utm_campaign=iosapp&utm_source=mail_app

MENTAL HEALTH
How Not to Care When People Don't Like You
https://lifehacker.com/how-not-to-care-when-people-dont-like-you-1823964733?&te=1&nl=morning-briefing&emc=edit_nn_p_20181212&section=whatElse

HEALTH CARE
The Risks of Medicare for All 
https://www.nationalreview.com/2018/12/medicare-for-all-plan-risks-uprooting-current-system/

PARENTING
Why is a 4-year-old defiant at every turn? 
http://www.jewishworldreview.com/1218/defiant_4_year_old.php3

HUMOR
The News in Zingers 
http://www.jewishworldreview.com/1218/hamilton.php3

BUSINESS
Russia overtakes UK to become the world's second-largest arms producer (although the U.S. is safe in the top spot)
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6482689/Russia-overtakes-UK-worlds-second-largest-arms-producer-U-S-number-one.html

Revealed: Google's 'two-tier' workforce training document 
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/dec/11/google-tvc-full-time-employees-training-document?utm_term=RWRpdG9yaWFsX0d1YXJkaWFuVG9kYXlVUy0xODEyMTI%3D&utm_source=esp&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=GuardianTodayUS&CMP=GTUS_email

FINANCE
Washington’s Short-Term Thinking Won’t Head Off the Coming Debt Crisis
https://www.nationalreview.com/2018/12/federal-debt-crisis-washington-short-term-thinking/

CLIMATE CHANGE
Collapsing buildings, crumbling roads, and sinkholes: Shocking study reveals how millions of people in the Arctic will be at risk from thawing permafrost - and the effects have already begun
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-6484003/People-Arctic-feeling-effects-climate-change.html

Melting Discovered in East Antarctic Region Holding Ice 'Equivalent to Four Greenlands' 
https://www.ecowatch.com/east-antarctic-glaciers-melting-2623175539.html

ENVIRONMENT
Holiday Shoppers, the Planet Needs You to Take It Easy With the Next-Day Shipping 
https://www.ecowatch.com/next-day-shipping-environment--2622954821.html

A future for red wolves may be found on Galveston Island, Texas
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/12/181211122449.htm

MYRMECOLOGY
Meet the fastest animal on Earth: Dracula ants snap their jaws shut at an incredible 200mph - 5,000 times faster than the blink of an eye
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-6484205/Dracula-ants-snap-jaws-shut-incredible-200mph.html

PHYSICAL TECHNOLOGY
Sun-soaking device turns water into superheated steam
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/12/181211192150.htm

'Hi-tech robot' at Russia forum turns out to be man in suit 
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/dec/12/high-tech-robot-at-russia-forum-turns-out-to-be-man-in-robot-suit?utm_term=RWRpdG9yaWFsX0d1YXJkaWFuVG9kYXlVUy0xODEyMTI%3D&utm_source=esp&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=GuardianTodayUS&CMP=GTUS_email

First Radar Image from ICEYE-X2 Published Only A Week After Launch 
https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/first-radar-image-from-iceye-x2-published-only-a-week-after-launch-300762986.html

CYBER TECHNOLOGY
Now Facebook wants to know where you're going NEXT: Controversial patent uses the location data of you and your friends to try and predict places you'll visit
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-6484609/Facebook-files-patent-uses-location-data-figure-youre-headed-next.html

NASA reveals first maps of Antarctica from new earth observing satellite so accurate it can measure sea ice height to within an inch
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-6484709/NASA-releases-unprecedented-new-maps-Antarctica-satellite-data.html

CYBER SECURITY
Android users beware! Cybercriminals are targeting their malware at Google's operating system more than any other - including Windows
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-6483881/Malware-targets-Googles-operating-including-Windows.html

Your smart devices might make it easier for burglars to break in
https://nypost.com/2018/12/12/your-smart-devices-might-make-it-easier-for-burglars-to-break-in/?utm_campaign=iosapp&utm_source=mail_app

NATIONAL SECURITY
Hmm: Can't House Republicans Just Pass Trump's $5 Billion Wall Funding Request?
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/guybenson/2018/12/12/hmm-can-house-republicans-pass-trumps-5-billion-wall-funding-request-n2537404?utm_source=thdailypm&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl_pm&newsletterad=&bcid=3cb4e56ddeac8885c78e874bb1d8f1a4&recip=27077809

BIG BROTHER
CIA once secretly implanted mind-control devices in dogs’ brains
https://nypost.com/2018/12/11/cia-once-secretly-implanted-mind-control-devices-in-dogs-brains/?utm_campaign=iosapp&utm_source=mail_app

New models sense human trust in smart machines
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/12/181211190018.htm

IMMIGRATION
Global Migration Pact: The U.N.’s Attempt to Erode Sovereignty
https://www.nationalreview.com/2018/12/united-nations-global-migration-pact-erosion-of-sovereignty/

'Give us $50,000 each to go home': Caravan migrants march to the US consulate in Tijuana, Mexico, demanding US government let them in or pay them off (A better idea ... pay the Mexican government only 10%, $5,000, each to send them home and prevent their return.)
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6487193/Central-American-migrants-march-consulate-Tijuana-demands-Trump-administration.html

Mexico announces crackdown on illegal immigration: 'Get in line and you can enter our country'
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2018/dec/12/mexico-cracks-down-illegal-immigration-southern-bo/?utm_source=Boomtrain&utm_medium=manual&utm_campaign=20180326&utm_term=newsalert&utm_content=newsalert&bt_ee=4I3TSCYdtKNPl4%2FMltzOSDHqW1gALp9spngsYr4C%2BAjveIUELvngh%2BLoAVMqUAHX&bt_ts=1544664483580

TRUMPGATE
WaPo/Rubin: A new understanding of ‘collusion’ and obstruction
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2018/12/10/new-understanding-collusion-obstruction/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.6b6c22968239

ONE MORE THING - VIETNAM

-- 
"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)