PLATT - MISC News

Body Bearers
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GENERAL INTEREST
The Week in Good News: Legal Snowballs, an Engagement Ring, Retro Video Games
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/06/briefing/week-in-good-news-times-square-engagement-ring-snowball-throwing.html?emc=edit_ne_20181208&nl=evening-briefing&nlid=5893540820181208&te=1

The origins of store-bought wild game
http://exclusive.multibriefs.com/content/the-origins-of-store-bought-wild-game/recreation-leisure

News Quiz: Test Your Knowledge of the Week’s Headlines (7 out of 11)
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/12/07/briefing/07weeklynewsquiz.html

Keillor: Someone to sit next to me 
http://jewishworldreview.com/1218/keillor120718.php3

HEALTH
Second-largest Ebola outbreak in history spreads to major Congo city
https://nypost.com/2018/12/07/second-largest-ebola-outbreak-in-history-spreads-to-major-congo-city/?utm_campaign=iosapp&utm_source=mail_app

HEALTH CARE
My nightmare before Christmas in three words: ‘health insurance renewal’ 
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/dec/07/christmas-health-insurance-renewal-americans

PROGRESSIVES UNHINGED
Principal bans candy canes, says ‘J shape’ stands for Jesus
https://nypost.com/2018/12/07/principal-bans-candy-canes-says-j-shape-stands-for-jesus-report/?utm_campaign=iosapp&utm_source=mail_app

TRAVEL
This is the most powerful passport in the world (it’s not American) 
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/this-is-the-most-powerful-passport-in-the-world-its-not-american-2018-12-05

MH370 theory: Data analysis points to new probable crash site
https://www.news.com.au/travel/travel-updates/incidents/mh370-theory-data-analysis-points-to-new-probable-crash-site/news-story/a53b708ee8e88402b1c905df89351180

CLIMATE CHANGE
Climate change is already here, scientists say, and it's killing us
https://www.yahoo.com/news/climate-change-already-scientists-say-killing-us-110035317.html

ENVIRONMENT
Mysterious Oil Spill on Massachusetts’ Charles River Spurs Major Emergency Response 
https://www.ecowatch.com/oil-spill-massachusetts-charles-river-2622673882.html

ASTRONOMY
New telescope in Chile will be world’s most powerful – even more so than Hubble in space – after scientists develop technology to cut through atmospheric distortion
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-6467433/Aust-boffins-lead-Chile-telescope-design.html

NATIONAL SECURITY
Overlooked No More: Noor Inayat Khan, Indian Princess and British Spy
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/28/obituaries/noor-inayat-khan-overlooked.html

Yes, Voter Fraud Is Real 
https://www.nationalreview.com/2018/12/voter-fraud-allgations-north-carolina-congressional-election/

DEFENSE
Say No to Defense Cuts
https://www.nationalreview.com/2018/12/defense-budget-increased-spending-needed-hard-power-foreign-policy/

Mattis Erupts Over Niger Inquiry and Army Revisits Who Is to Blame
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/07/us/politics/niger-mattis.html?emc=edit_ne_20181208&nl=evening-briefing&nlid=5893540820181208&te=1

LAW AND ORDER
Inside the capture of a drug kingpin’s cocaine submarine
https://nypost.com/2018/12/06/inside-the-capture-of-a-drug-kingpins-cocaine-submarine/?utm_campaign=iosapp&utm_source=mail_app

Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg is more ruthless than clueless
http://www.jewishworldreview.com/1218/ovide120718.php3

MEDIA
Tehran’s Influence Operations a Threat to Journalistic Independence
https://townhall.com/columnists/ivansheehan/2018/12/06/tehrans-influence-operations-a-threat-to-journalistic-independence-n2537103?utm_source=thdaily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl&newsletterad=&bcid=3cb4e56ddeac8885c78e874bb1d8f1a4&recip=27077809

CHINA
Inside China's audacious global propaganda campaign 
https://www.theguardian.com/news/2018/dec/07/china-plan-for-global-media-dominance-propaganda-xi-jinping

IRAN
Why Tehran is sinking dangerously
https://mail.yahoo.com/neo/launch?.src=ym&reason=myc#4067411251

CLINTONGATE
THREE whistleblowers hand over hundreds of documents 'showing the Clinton Foundation misused funds and made quid-pro-quo promises to donors about access to Hillary'
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6470709/Whistleblowers-hand-hundreds-documents-Clinton-Foundation-wrongdoing.html

Judge orders Cabinet departments to reopen part of Hillary email case
http://www.jewishworldreview.com/1218/hillary_email_reopened.php3

TRUMPGATE
Mueller’s Gift to Obama
See the Wall Street Journal article, below.

Federal prosecutors say Cohen committed crimes 'in coordination with and at the direction of' Trump
https://start.att.net/news/read/article/business_insider-federal_prosecutors_say_cohen_committed_crimes_in-newscred2/category/news

POLITICS
If the Dems want to lose in 2020, Beto O’Rourke is the perfect candidate
https://nypost.com/2018/12/06/if-the-dems-want-to-lose-in-2020-beto-orourke-is-the-perfect-candidate/?utm_campaign=iosapp&utm_source=mail_app

Ocasio-Cortez Takes a Page from Trump’s Playbook 
https://www.nationalreview.com/2018/12/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-controversy-playbook-right-left/

Sacramento Bee Editorial Board to Kamala Harris: You Should Have Known Better
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/cortneyobrien/2018/12/07/sacramento-bee-editorial-board-to-kamala-harris-you-should-have-known-better-n2537142?utm_source=thdailypm&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl_pm&newsletterad=&bcid=3cb4e56ddeac8885c78e874bb1d8f1a4&recip=27077809

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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)

FROM THE WALL STREET JOURNAL (without permission)

https://www.wsj.com/articles/muellers-gift-to-obama-1544139166?emailToken=806c380ea62747282860b80012ba50darJe1omCE9PaMFx+6Y2dw+IMUcoR7XJCsCH52Q/hCgQuqpDxqfUO+jz5HC6F6CK1rvVF7fTI19AsXKu/JoCUxyA%3D%3D&reflink=article_email_share

Mueller’s Gift to Obama

Shouldn’t the special counsel investigate the crimes that drew Flynn into his probe?

By

Kimberley A. Strassel

Dec. 6, 2018 6:32 p.m. ET

Special Counsel Robert Mueller speaks in Washington, D.C., Aug. 1, 2013. Photo: saul loeb/Agence France-Presse/Getty Images

Robert Mueller looks to be approaching his endgame, and the press is alive with speculation as to how bad the special counsel’s report will be for President Trump. It’s also worth noticing how good Mr. Mueller has been to another president, Barack Obama, and his team.
This benevolence was on display in the sentencing document the special counsel’s office filed on Tuesday for Mike Flynn. The former Trump national security adviser, we are told, has provided “substantial assistance,” sitting for 19 interviews that aided in “several ongoing investigations.” In light of this help, the Mueller team recommends leniency—perhaps even sparing him prison time. (SEE WSJ FOR MORE)