PLATT - MISC News

GENERAL INTEREST
Character Is Destiny 
https://www.nationalreview.com/2018/12/trump-character-will-be-his-downfall/?utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=NR%20Daily%20Monday%20through%20Friday%202018-12-27&utm_term=NRDaily-Smart

HEALTH
Cancer breakthrough that allows doctors to transplant disease-fighting immune cells from strangers into patients could 'save millions of lives in the future'
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-6532227/Future-cancer-incredibly-bright-scientists-transplant-immune-cells-patients.html

HUMOR
2018's dumbest criminals are guilty of hilarious failure
https://nypost.com/video/2018s-dumbest-criminals-are-guilty-of-hilarious-failure/?utm_campaign=iosapp&utm_source=mail_app

ENVIRONMENT
Could a Seaweed-Eating Microbe Help Solve the Ocean Plastic Crisis? 
https://www.ecowatch.com/seaweed-eating-microbe-plastic-pollution-2624454540.html

ASTRONOMY
Are We Headed for A Major Meteor Event?
https://weather.com/science/space/video/are-we-headed-for-a-major-meteor-event?pl=pl-the-latest

HERPETOLOGY
Ssssssurprise!! Horrifying moment Texas man discovers THREE DOZEN rattlesnakes under his shed
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6531411/Texas-man-freaked-finding-three-dozen-rattlesnakes-living-shed-property.html

OCEANOGRAPHY
Big Wave in Florida Sends People Running
https://weather.com/news/weather/video/big-wave-in-florida-sends-people-running?pl=pl-the-latest

NATIONAL SECURITY
VLAD’S NUKE ISLAND Russia ‘sends supersonic nuke bombers to military base it’s setting up on Caribbean island’
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/8064941/russia-military-base-caribbean-island-nuclear-bombers/

DEFENSE
Putin to deploy new hypersonic missile system 
https://washingtontimes-dc.newsmemory.com/?token=c857291116e5676754e6970e52a09982_5c24e70f_5cd1fdb&selDate=20181227&goTo=A01&artid=0&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=washingtontimes-E-Editions&utm_source=washingtontimes&utm_content=Read-Button

BIG BROTHER
Inside Facebook’s Secret Rulebook for Global Political Speech
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/27/world/facebook-moderators.html?emc=edit_ne_20181227&nl=evening-briefing&nlid=5893540820181227&te=1

SYRIA
Now Russia warns Turkey to stay OUT of Syria and let Assad take back areas vacated by Trump's withdrawal of US troops as Erdogan's forces prepare attack
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6532459/Russia-warns-Turkey-stay-Syria-let-Assad-areas-vacated-troops.html

TRUMPGATE
The Mueller Investigation Is Stirring Up More Trouble Than It’s Finding 
https://www.nationalreview.com/2018/12/mueller-trump-collusion-probe-making-more-trouble-than-its-finding/?utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=NR%20Daily%20Monday%20through%20Friday%202018-12-27&utm_term=NRDaily-Smart

Giuliani backtracks: Trump will not give Mueller any more written answers 
https://thehill.com/hilltv/rising/422970-giuliani-backtracks-trump-will-not-give-mueller-any-more-written-answers?userid=288549

'Nude Selfie' Obtained In Mueller Inquiry, Says Court Filing By Indicted Russian Firm
https://www.yahoo.com/news/apos-nude-selfie-apos-obtained-023544800.html

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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)