PLATT - MISC News

GENERAL INTEREST
Boy Scouts of America looks to bankruptcy as membership falls, lawsuits mount
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/boy-scouts-of-america-looks-to-bankruptcy-as-membership-falls-lawsuits-mount-2018-12-12

America's neediest cities revealed: Detroit ranks worst in the nation, with high rates of child and adult poverty
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6488127/Americas-neediest-cities-revealed-Detroit-ranks-worst-nation-high-rates-child-adult-poverty.html

10 Coolest Strongest Toys Which Actually Exist !
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GMS7B45XM-o

The pizza scam you probably didn’t know about
https://nypost.com/2018/12/12/the-pizza-scam-you-probably-didnt-know-about/?utm_campaign=iosapp&utm_source=mail_app

HEALTH
How far would YOU go to live forever? Cell injections, magnetic chairs and brain implants are among Silicon Valley's ideas for IMMORTALITY
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-6491607/Cell-injections-magnetic-chairs-brain-implants-Silicon-Valleys-ideas-IMMORTALITY.html

Human Heart Found Aboard Southwest Airlines Flight, Forcing Plane to Turn Around 
https://start.att.net/news/read/article/people-human_heart_found_aboard_southwest_airlines_flight-rtime/category/news+

PROGRESSIVES UNHINGED
College Gender & Women’s Studies Department: Abolish the Police 
https://www.nationalreview.com/2018/12/college-gender-womens-studies-department-abolish-the-police/?utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=NR%20Daily%20Monday%20through%20Friday%202018-12-13&utm_term=NRDaily-Smart

Provoking the pronoun police 
http://jewishworldreview.com/1218/burke121318.php3

ENVIRONMENT
Trump Auctions Off 150,000 Acres of Public Lands for Fracking Near Utah National Parks
https://www.ecowatch.com/fracking-utah-national-parks-2623200218.html

Unprecedented New Map Unveils Illegal Mining Destroying Amazon
https://www.ecowatch.com/unprecedented-new-map-reveals-illegal-mining-destroying-amazon-2623200925.html

SCIENCE
Virgin Galactic’s supersonic plane reaches space
https://www.news.com.au/technology/science/space/virgin-galactic-supersonic-plane-reaches-space/news-story/ffd9ee0e3ed9f9403b2e03f5868a2f61

TECHNOLOGY
Fears about artificial intelligence are 'very legitimate,' Google CEO says
http://www.jewishworldreview.com/1218/AI_fears_real.php3

ARCHAEOLOGY
Forget horsepower, Stonehenge was built with COW-power: Cattle that lived 8,000 years ago were used as 'animal engines' to lug around heavy objects for Neolithic people
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-6491295/Stonehenge-built-COW-power-Cattle-lived-8-000-years-ago-used-animal-engines.html

CYBER SECURITY
Iran hackers hunt nuclear workers, US targets
https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-never-asked-michael-cohen-commit-crimes-143640911.html

Bad Android battery life? You may have been the victim of 'clickfraud'! Criminal apps on Google Play that drain your phone have been downloaded 2million times
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-6491651/You-DELETE-22-criminal-apps-right-now.html

DEFENSE
The US is losing the ability to defend itself 
http://www.jewishworldreview.com/1218/boot121318.php3

New 'no escape' Meteor missiles boost fighter jets' firepower
https://www.foxnews.com/tech/new-no-escape-meteor-missiles-boost-fighter-jets-firepower

US Army to begin using new automatic rifles that fire with the power of a TANK as soon as 2022, report claims
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-6489023/US-Army-begin-using-new-automatic-rifles-fire-power-TANK-soon-2022.html

IMMIGRATION
'Absolute hypocrites': Trump uses Dems' own words in border security pitch
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2018/dec/13/trump-uses-obama-hillary-clinton-chuck-schumer-quo/?utm_source=Boomtrain&utm_medium=manual&utm_campaign=20180326&utm_term=newsalert&utm_content=newsalert&bt_ee=A%2FN1N6%2FbPpQnNkMLsJgzvXW%2BVlYvbEIIgHX%2FkwnuzOQRniH0FpiQOz6cTnHuU00E&bt_ts=1544742207363

Federal judge says Trump travel ban lawsuit will proceed
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2018/dec/13/judge-james-donato-says-trump-travel-ban-lawsuit-w/?utm_source=Boomtrain&utm_medium=manual&utm_campaign=20180326&utm_term=newsalert&utm_content=newsalert&bt_ee=4fufzziJuKDAQQUzgG9WM5luTzcmN%2F%2FjqE%2FUM7OULjZPxWGYHS9QB3wVarshU71G&bt_ts=1544745834429



TERRORISM
Another Known Wolf
https://patriotpost.us/opinion/60016?mailing_id=3945&utm_medium=email&utm_source=pp.email.3945&utm_campaign=snapshot&utm_content=body

TRUMPGATE
Now MUELLER'S under the microscope: Judge sentencing ex-National Security Advisor Michael Flynn orders special counsel to hand over all interview documents after General claimed FBI pressured him NOT to take a lawyer 
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6491465/Judge-Flynn-case-orders-Mueller-hand-interview-documents-claims-FBI-pressure.html

Strzok, Page messages from Mueller probe lost after phone resets: IG
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2018/dec/13/strzok-page-messages-mueller-probe-lost-phone/?bt_ee=A5tKib98p13RzJ6XmXpRU3zDYPbT%2BzOYzkDft7590ez51BGMjuQf6sXygVQZ7jVv&bt_ts=1544729680153

POLITICS
Obama Was Never ‘Squeaky Clean:’ Fined $375,000 for Campaign Finance Violations, One of Largest in History
https://www.westernjournal.com/ct/obama-never-squeaky-clean-fined-375000-campaign-finance-violations-one-largest-history/?ff_source=Email&ff_medium=newsletter-CT&ff_campaign=dailypm&ff_content=conservative-tribune

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Lose – with the discipline to confront the most brutal facts of your current reality, whatever
they might be."
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