PLATT - MISC News

GENERAL INTEREST
1,000+ American Brewers Brew Special Beer to Raise Funds for Camp Fire Recovery
https://www.ecowatch.com/american-brewers-brew-camp-fire-recovery-2621956103.html

Clerk who thought New Mexico was foreign country refused to give out marriage license
https://nypost.com/2018/11/30/clerk-who-thought-new-mexico-was-foreign-country-refused-to-give-out-marriage-license/?utm_campaign=iosapp&utm_source=mail_app

Keillor:  A great task lies before us, but first we sleep
http://www.jewishworldreview.com/1118/keillor113018.php3

Grindr: app's president says marriage is 'between man and woman'
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/nov/29/grindr-apps-president-calls-marriage-holy-matrimony-between-man-and-woman

HEALTH
You'll Never Guess What They Found on McDonald's Touchscreens 
https://start.att.net/news/read/article/cosmopolitan-youll_never_guess_what_they_found_on_mcdonalds_tou-rhearst/category/lifestyle+

Who owns your medical data? Most likely not you 
http://www.jewishworldreview.com/1118/patient_privacy_data.php3

PARENTING
The importance of being bored
http://www.jewishworldreview.com/1118/boredom.php3

PROGRESSIVES UNHINGED
Was an Entire Class Evacuated Because a Student Was Wearing a MAGA Hat?
https://www.nationalreview.com/2018/12/high-school-class-evacuated-over-maga-hat/?utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=NR%20Daily%20Saturday%202018-12-01&utm_term=NR5PM%20Actives

INSIGHT
Rejection of identity politics is part of American history
http://www.jewishworldreview.com/cols/jonah113018.php3

BUSINESS
U.S., China declare 90-day halt to new tariffs, White House says
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/u-china-declare-90-day-halt-tariffs-white-023232628--finance.html?.tsrc=bell-brknews

Trump’s new NAFTA faces uphill battle in Congress
https://thehill.com/policy/finance/trade/419222-trumps-new-nafta-faces-uphill-battle-in-congress

UNION PENSION ABUSE
Illinois Supreme Court tosses law aimed at stopping union boss pension abuses
https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/politics/ct-met-illinois-labor-union-pension-law-struck-down-20181130-story.html

ENVIRONMENT
Fighting a Corporate Scheme to Sell the Mojave Desert's Water 
https://www.ecowatch.com/mojave-desert-water-cadiz-earthjustice-2621856761.html

ARACHNOLOGY
Spider Milk? Researchers Make Surprising Discovery 
http://www.newser.com/story/267965/spiders-share-surprisingly-similar-trait-to-mammals.html?utm_source=part&utm_medium=att&utm_campaign=rss_science_syn

NATIONAL SECURITY
Is a space war brewing? Russia announces it will establish a lunar colony by 2040 just hours after NASA says it's returning to the moon 'to stay'
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-6446333/Is-space-war-brewing-Russia-announces-establish-lunar-colony-2040.html

U.S. military warns electromagnetic pulse weapons in Iran, Russia and North Korea could melt down nuclear power plants, shut down the electricity grid for 18 months and WIPE OUT millions of Americans
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6449619/Air-Force-warns-electromagnetic-pulse-weapons-Iran-Russia-North-Korea-destroy-America.html

DEFENSE
Top US naval commander in Middle East found dead
https://www.cnn.com/2018/12/01/politics/us-naval-commander-stearney-dead/index.html

Why the Marine Corps and Navy Will Miss the EA-6B Prowler
https://nationalinterest.org/blog/buzz/why-marine-corps-and-navy-will-miss-ea-6b-prowler-37542

LAW AND THE COURTS
A transgender 'woman' is challenging Chicago's definition of the female breast
http://www.jewishworldreview.com/1118/transgender_breasts.php3

MEDIA
‘Fake news’ could destroy Western society, State Department official warns
https://www.yahoo.com/news/fake-news-destroy-western-society-state-department-official-warns-162544953.html?.tsrc=jtc_news_index

Networks investigating Neil deGrasse Tyson over sexual misconduct claims
https://pagesix.com/2018/12/01/networks-investigating-neil-degrasse-tyson-over-sexual-misconduct-claims/?utm_campaign=iosapp&utm_source=mail_app

Google Employees Contemplated Skewing Search Results To Bury Conservative Media Reporting
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/bethbaumann/2018/11/30/google-employees-contemplated-skewing-search-results-to-bury-conservative-media-reporting-n2536821?utm_source=thdaily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl&newsletterad=&bcid=3cb4e56ddeac8885c78e874bb1d8f1a4&recip=27077809

REFUGEES
Refugee Women, Children, and Infants Water-cannoned to Death Near US Southern Border—But Democrat/Media Complex Glorifies Perpetrator
https://townhall.com/columnists/humbertofontova/2018/12/01/refugee-women-children-and-infants-watercannoned-to-death-near-us-southern-borderbut-democratmedia-complex-glorifies-perpetrator-n2536780?utm_source=thdaily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl&newsletterad=&bcid=3cb4e56ddeac8885c78e874bb1d8f1a4&recip=27077809

CARAVAN
Tijuana Mayor: Arrest The Caravan Organizer And I'm Not Spending A Penny More To Shelter Migrants
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/mattvespa/2018/11/30/tijuana-mayor-n2536814?utm_source=thdaily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl&newsletterad=&bcid=3cb4e56ddeac8885c78e874bb1d8f1a4&recip=27077809

TRUMPGATE
Robert Mueller’s Plan
https://www.yahoo.com/news/robert-mueller-plan-113058815.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)