PLATT - MISC News

GENERAL INTEREST
Lost wallet returned, with something extra inside 
http://www.jewishworldreview.com/1218/returned_wallet.php3

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

HEALTH CARE
Can the NHS be saved? 
https://www.theguardian.com/news/audio/2018/dec/19/can-the-nhs-be-saved?utm_term=RWRpdG9yaWFsX0d1YXJkaWFuVG9kYXlVUy0xODEyMTk%3D&utm_source=esp&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=GuardianTodayUS&CMP=GTUS_email

PROGRESSIVES RUNNING AMOK
Scottish Parliament Officially Bans Gingerbread Man for “Gingerbread Person”
https://politicalcowboy.com/scottish-parliament-officially-bans-gingerbread-man-for-gingerbread-person/

BUSINESS
Capitalists vs. Capitalism
http://www.jewishworldreview.com/1218/stossel21918.php3

CLIMATE CHANGE
Global warming is WORSE than we thought because the famous 'pause' between 1995 and 2013 never happened, claim experts
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-6511403/Global-warming-WORSE-thought.html

Giant dust particles from the Sahara Desert found a record-breaking 2200 miles away in the Caribbean
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-6509427/Giant-dust-particles-Sahara-Desert-record-breaking-2200-miles-away-Caribbean.html

SCIENCE
Upwind wind plants can reduce flow to downwind neighbors (Aha !!! Someone has "re-discovered" the first and second laws of thermodynamics.)
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/12/181218115124.htm

FOREIGN POLICY
Anger, confusion greet Trump’s surprise decision on Syria
https://thehill.com/policy/defense/422175-anger-surprise-greet-trumps-shock-decision-on-syria?userid=288549

NATIONAL SECURITY
Countering the Threat of an EMP
https://townhall.com/columnists/edfeulner/2018/12/19/countering-the-threat-of-an-emp-n2537672?utm_source=thdaily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl&newsletterad=12/19/2018&bcid=3cb4e56ddeac8885c78e874bb1d8f1a4&recip=27077809

78 cases of potential voter fraud under investigation
https://nypost.com/2018/12/19/78-cases-of-potential-voter-fraud-under-investigation/?utm_campaign=iosapp&utm_source=mail_app



DEFENSE
China warns US against 'weaponising' space after Trump ordered Pentagon to create a new command centre for controlling military space operations
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6511423/China-warns-US-against-weaponising-space.html

China is building its own top-secret 'Z machine' in a hidden research centre to study H-bombs in nuclear arms race against the US
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6508873/China-building-secret-Z-machine-hidden-research-centre-rival-US.html

LAW AND ORDER
She swiped her co-worker's Coke can. Police say it cracked a 28-year-old murder case.
http://www.jewishworldreview.com/1218/coke_can_murder_solved.php3

IMMIGRATION
'Disturbing' new tactics: Mexican cartels use ultralight aircraft to smuggle illegals into U.S.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2018/dec/19/ultralight-aircraft-used-smuggle-illegals-mexico-u/?utm_source=Boomtrain&utm_medium=manual&utm_campaign=20180326&utm_term=newsalert&utm_content=newsalert&bt_ee=4EDPGgiaPA8jmWuGrV53k%2Fhm%2FW3oPMSHmocJnUMj04fyfW812j5%2Bow9YqN9iWv0C&bt_ts=1545265909816

Here's the Latest Ways the White House Says It Will Pay For the Wall
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/katiepavlich/2018/12/19/heres-the-latest-way-to-pay-for-the-wall-n2537718?utm_source=thdailypm&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl_pm&newsletterad=&bcid=3cb4e56ddeac8885c78e874bb1d8f1a4&recip=27077809

RUSSIA
Russia may have nuclear arms in Crimea, hacked EU cables warn 
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/dec/19/hacked-eu-cables-hailed-trump-meeting-as-success-for-putin?utm_term=RWRpdG9yaWFsX0d1YXJkaWFuVG9kYXlVUy0xODEyMTk%3D&utm_source=esp&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=GuardianTodayUS&CMP=GTUS_email

TRUMPGATE
Sealed v Sealed: ruling sheds light on mystery case thought to involve Mueller
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/dec/18/sealed-v-sealed-robert-mueller-mysterious-case-subpoena?utm_term=RWRpdG9yaWFsX0d1YXJkaWFuVG9kYXlVUy0xODEyMTk%3D&utm_source=esp&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=GuardianTodayUS&CMP=GTUS_email

'Very truly yours, Donald Trump': President 'DID sign letter of intent to build a Trump Tower in Moscow with spa named after Ivanka' - two days after Giuliani claimed 'no one' ever signed the document
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6510901/CNN-obtains-Trumps-signature-letter-intent-build-Trump-Tower-Moscow.html



POLITICS
Trump’s Hard-Core Supporters Aren’t Enough 
https://www.nationalreview.com/2018/12/donald-trump-political-strategy-base-voters/

Democrats to block end-of-year judges package
https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/422085-democrats-to-block-end-of-year-judges-package

More proof the deep state’s hypocrisy is alive and well
https://nypost.com/2018/12/18/more-proof-the-deep-states-hypocrisy-is-alive-and-well/?utm_campaign=iosapp&utm_source=mail_app

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Lose – with the discipline to confront the most brutal facts of your current reality, whatever
they might be."
           - VAdm James Stockdale, USN (1923-2005)