PLATT - MISC News

GENERAL INTEREST
Disparities Galore
https://townhall.com/columnists/walterewilliams/2018/12/26/disparities-galore-n2537938?utm_source=thdaily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl&newsletterad=12/26/2018&bcid=3cb4e56ddeac8885c78e874bb1d8f1a4&recip=27077809

Ford introduces 2019 Bullitt Mustang alongside long-hidden 1968 original
https://www.hemmings.com/blog/2018/01/17/ford-introduces-2019-bullitt-mustang-alongside-long-hidden-1968-original/

Inside Vlad Force One! Seriously-ill Russian schoolboy films his private tour of Putin's £390million Ilyushin jet that's fitted out with a gold-plated toilet, a king-sized bed fit for a Tsar and a presidential bar
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6530105/Seriously-ill-Russian-teen-given-private-tour-Putins-state-jet.html

PHYSICAL HEALTH
Trek Into Congo Forest Reveals an Ebola Crisis Fueled by Violence
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/26/world/africa/ebola-congo.html?emc=edit_ne_20181226&nl=evening-briefing&nlid=5893540820181226&te=1

What You Need to Know About Pink Himalayan Salt 
https://www.ecowatch.com/what-you-need-to-know-about-pink-himalayan-salt-2624280381.html

What were they thinking? Grossest food moments of 2018
https://www.foxnews.com/food-drink/what-were-they-thinking-grossest-food-incidents-of-2018

MENTAL HEALTH
‘Learning to relax can be life-changing’: how to find your comfort zone 
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2018/dec/26/relax-life-changing-how-to-find-comfort-zone?utm_term=RWRpdG9yaWFsX0d1YXJkaWFuVG9kYXlVUy0xODEyMjY%3D&utm_source=esp&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=GuardianTodayUS&CMP=GTUS_email

PARENTING
The Relentlessness of Modern Parenting
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/25/upshot/the-relentlessness-of-modern-parenting.html?emc=edit_nn_p_20181226&nl=morning-briefing&nlid=58935408section%3DlongRead&section=longRead&te=1

Should children sit on Santa's lap? (NOT satire)
http://www.jewishworldreview.com/1218/santa_me_too.php3

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

EDUCATION
Beware Silicon Valley Santas in the Schools
https://townhall.com/columnists/michellemalkin/2018/12/26/beware-silicon-valley-santas-in-the-schools-n2538037?utm_source=thdaily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl&newsletterad=12/26/2018&bcid=3cb4e56ddeac8885c78e874bb1d8f1a4&recip=27077809

HISTORY
Sacrifice at Saint-Nazaire
https://www.usni.org/magazines/navalhistory/2017-04/sacrifice-saint-nazaire

BUSINESS
Top Amazon boss privately advised US government on web portal worth billions to tech firm 
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/dec/26/amazon-anne-rung-government-services-authority?utm_term=RWRpdG9yaWFsX0d1YXJkaWFuVG9kYXlVUy0xODEyMjY%3D&utm_source=esp&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=GuardianTodayUS&CMP=GTUS_email

ENVIRONMENT
The answer to plastic pollution is to not create waste in the first place 
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/dec/26/pollution-plastic-waste-environment-china?utm_term=RWRpdG9yaWFsX0d1YXJkaWFuVG9kYXlVUy0xODEyMjY%3D&utm_source=esp&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=GuardianTodayUS&CMP=GTUS_email

SCIENCE
what zero gravity is like
https://delanceyplace.com/

FOREIGN POLICY
The Coming Scramble for Africa
https://www.nationalreview.com/2018/12/africa-china-united-states-foreign-policy-economic-development/

NATIONAL SECURITY
To Shore Up the Defense-Industrial Base, Look to Norway 
https://www.nationalreview.com/2018/12/us-norway-relationship-important-defense-partnerships/

Former ICE chief Tom Homan rips Nancy Pelosi for doubting border wall works
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2018/dec/26/tom-homan-former-ice-chief-rips-nancy-pelosi-doubt/?utm_source=Boomtrain&utm_medium=manual&utm_campaign=20180326&utm_term=newsalert&utm_content=newsalert&bt_ee=bp7JevhpJhsxnvScmbYm6uCW21Wi3m%2BxWz4bzV68ArimQGEiTPzE6vujyyWwcZxV&bt_ts=1545839436886

IMMIGRATION
America only wants the 'best' immigrants, but would its own people pass the test? 
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/dec/26/team-america-merit-based-immigration-self-defeating?utm_term=RWRpdG9yaWFsX0d1YXJkaWFuVG9kYXlVUy0xODEyMjY%3D&utm_source=esp&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=GuardianTodayUS&CMP=GTUS_email

POLITICS
Dems worry: Top three candidates in polls are all white men
https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/422545-dems-worry-top-three-candidates-in-polls-are-all-white-men?userid=288549

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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)