PLATT - MISC News

GENERAL INTEREST
Bodypaint Illusion - Sea Turtle by Johannes Stötter
http://safeyoutube.net/w/7HJe

The Week in Good News: Canada Cave, Christmas Classics, Donating Your Wedding Dress
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/13/briefing/week-in-good-news-donate-wedding-dress-canada-cave.html?emc=edit_ne_20181214&nl=evening-briefing&nlid=5893540820181214&te=1

News Quiz: Test Your Knowledge of the Week’s Headlines (7 out of 11)
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/12/14/briefing/14weeklynewsquiz.html

Extremely rare 'unicorn' of US paper money expected to sell for $3 million 
https://start.att.net/news/read/article/fox_news-extremely_rare_unicorn_of_us_paper_money_expected-rfoxnews/category/news

552-carat yellow diamond found in Canada, largest ever in North America 
https://start.att.net/news/read/category/news/article/fox_news-552carat_yellow_diamond_found_in_canada_largest_ev-rfoxnews

HEALTH
Cab we cheat ageing?
http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20181211-how-science-and-medicine-could-cure-ageing

Johnson & Johnson Knew Baby Powder Contained Asbestos for Decades, Report Claims 
https://start.att.net/news/read/article/fortune-johnson_johnson_knew_baby_powder_contained_asbesto-rtime/category/finance

PROGRESSIVES DERANGED
Are You People On Crack? Almost 30 Percent Think Santa Claus Should Be Female Or Gender Neutral 
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/mattvespa/2018/12/13/are-you-people-on-crack-almost-30-percent-think-santa-claus-should-be-female-or-n2537482?utm_source=thdailypm&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl_pm&newsletterad=&bcid=3cb4e56ddeac8885c78e874bb1d8f1a4&recip=27077809

ENVIRONMENT
Satellite spies methane bubbling up from Arctic permafrost
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-018-07751-w?utm_source=briefing&utm_campaign=20b5d4711c-briefing-dy-20181212_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_c9dfd39373-20b5d4711c-43366473

SCIENCE
Two People Have Died at a Scientific Research Station in Antarctica 
https://www.sciencealert.com/two-technicians-have-died-in-an-american-station-in-antarctica

TECHNOLOGY
Self-driving cars are the latest target of road rage as angry residents point guns, slash tires and throw rocks at Waymo's autonomous vans
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-6494249/Angry-residents-point-guns-slash-tires-throw-rocks-Waymos-autonomous-vans.html

NATIONAL SECURITY
Chinese Hackers Breach U.S. Navy Contractors
See the Wall Street Journal article, below.

Inside Iran’s ‘Charming Kitten’ cyberspying campaign against the US
https://nypost.com/2018/12/13/inside-irans-charming-kitten-cyberspying-campaign-against-the-us/?utm_campaign=iosapp&utm_source=mail_app

LAW AND ORDER
FBI misses deadline to provide docs to Judiciary Committee probing whistleblower raid
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/fbi-misses-deadline-to-provide-docs-to-judiciary-committee-probing-whistleblower-raid

SOCIAL MEDIA
Don’t Expect New, Unbiased Social Media Anytime Soon 
https://www.nationalreview.com/2018/12/conservative-friendly-social-media-structural-barriers/?utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=NR%20Daily%20Monday%20through%20Friday%202018-12-14&utm_term=NRDaily-Smart

Twitter ordered to reveal user behind parody JD Wetherspoon account
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/dec/13/twitter-ordered-to-reveal-user-behind-parody-jd-wetherspoon-account

Drones, DNA and data: please don't give the gift of privacy invasion 
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/dec/14/drones-dna-and-data-please-dont-give-the-gift-of-privacy-invasion

CLINTONGATE
Oversight panel hearing on Clinton Foundation blows up
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/oversight-panel-hearing-on-clinton-foundation-blows-up-as-gop-battles-its-own-witnesses

TRUMPGATE
Former FEC Chief: Actually, Those 'Hush Money' Payoffs Were Not Campaign Finance Crimes
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/guybenson/2018/12/14/rudy-on-campaign-finance-violations-hey-its-not-like-anyone-got-killed-or-robbed-n2537509?utm_source=thdailypm&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl_pm&newsletterad=&bcid=3cb4e56ddeac8885c78e874bb1d8f1a4&recip=27077809

Trump inauguration spending under criminal investigation 
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/trump-inauguration-spending-under-criminal-investigation-2018-12-13

Trump impeachment calls 'deliciously ironic' from Dems who defended Clinton
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/dems-calls-for-impeachment-weakened-by-allegations-of-campaign-finance-violations-panel-says

POLITICS
Maybe Trump Can't Win in 2020, But Democrats Can Lose
https://townhall.com/columnists/jonahgoldberg/2018/12/14/maybe-trump-cant-win-in-2020-but-democrats-can-lose-n2537481?utm_source=thdaily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl&newsletterad=12/14/2018&bcid=3cb4e56ddeac8885c78e874bb1d8f1a4&recip=27077809

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"You must never confuse faith that you will prevail in the end – which you can never afford to
Lose – with the discipline to confront the most brutal facts of your current reality, whatever
they might be."
           - VAdm James Stockdale, USN (1923-2005)

FROM THE WALL STREET JOURNAL (without permission)

https://www.wsj.com/articles/u-s-navy-is-struggling-to-fend-off-chinese-hackers-officials-say-11544783401?emailToken=f507614b1fcb3eb869cbed2ff2ad3bc66cY8AwFH9gAnL8J9jCwj0/BzJ3m0iEhB8mHYa1PNeu4kV8xf+Te1hLZjAdqsDwtb0ZAVI0bvb4Ofc705h6yq5qRVypZfv+C/TRXI4MARwoGyiWf2FpXXdaYTgjwVN67P&reflink=article_email_share

Chinese Hackers Breach U.S. Navy Contractors

Review of cyber vulnerability is ordered after intruders gain access to information about military technology

Navy aircraft carrier USS Ronald Reagan conducting an exercise in the South China Sea in August. Photo: kaila v peters/us navy/epa/Shutterstock

By

Gordon Lubold and

Dustin Volz

Updated Dec. 14, 2018 5:09 p.m. ET

WASHINGTON—Chinese hackers are breaching Navy contractors to steal everything from ship-maintenance data to missile plans, officials and experts said, triggering a top-to-bottom review of cyber vulnerabilities.
A series of incidents in the past 18 months has pointed out the service’s weaknesses, highlighting what some officials have described as some of the most debilitating cyber campaigns linked to Beijing. CONTINUE with WSJ