PLATT - MISC News

GENERAL INTEREST
Five Times the Internet Was Actually Fun in 2018
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/27/style/best-memes-2018.html

Has the mystery of 'Britain's Roswell' finally been solved? Rendlesham Forest UFO 'landing' was a prank SAS tricksters played on US Airmen, insiders claim
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6539849/Has-mystery-Britains-Roswell-finally-solved.html

New York City Issues A Warning Not To Walk Over The Brooklyn Bridge
https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/york-city-issues-warning-not-174700320.html

HEALTH
‘For 30 years I’ve been obsessed by why children get leukemia. Now we have an answer
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2018/dec/30/children-leukaemia-mel-greaves-microbes-protection-against-disease?utm_term=RWRpdG9yaWFsX0d1YXJkaWFuVG9kYXlVUy0xODEyMzA%3D&utm_source=esp&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=GuardianTodayUS&CMP=GTUS_email

PROGRESSIVES UNHINGED
Mizzou Official Claims Tall Men Asking Out Short Women Could Constitute Sexual Misconduct
https://www.dailywire.com/news/39732/mizzou-official-claims-tall-men-asking-out-short-ashe-schow?utm_medium=email&utm_content=123019-news&utm_campaign=position1

Transgender Woman Wins Discrimination Suit, $20,000 For Being Cut From Women's Football Team
https://www.dailywire.com/news/39735/transgender-woman-wins-discrimination-suit-after-amanda-prestigiacomo?utm_medium=email&utm_content=123019-news&utm_campaign=position5

URSINOLOGY
Why all you've been told about these polar bears could be WRONG: Animals driven to the edge of their natural habitat by shrinking ice have become one of the defining images of climate change, but Inuits who know the predators have a very different story
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6539067/Why-youve-told-polar-bears-WRONG-Inuits-different-story.html

BUSINESS
Why It's Hard to Escape Amazon's Long Reach
https://www.wired.com/story/why-hard-escape-amazons-long-reach/

FOREIGN POLICY
Sen. Graham Had Quite the Lunch With Trump 
http://www.newser.com/story/269285/sen-graham-had-quite-the-lunch-with-trump.html?utm_source=part&utm_medium=att&utm_campaign=rss_world_syn

NATIONAL SECURITY
Democrats (and, some Republicans): A plague on the nation
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2018/12/democrats_a_plague_on_the_nation.html

UNION
 Seasonal UPS Workers Had Paychecks Taken By Local Teamsters Chapter In Boston
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/mattvespa/2018/12/29/union-scum-seasonal-ups-workers-had-paychecks-taken-by-local-teamsters-chapter-in-boston-n2538235?utm_source=thdaily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl&newsletterad=12/30/2018&bcid=3cb4e56ddeac8885c78e874bb1d8f1a4&recip=27077809

IMMIGRATION
The Birthright Rip-Off Is Another Affront To American Citizenship
https://townhall.com/columnists/janbrewer/2018/12/29/the-birthright-ripoff-is-another-affront-to-american-citizenship-n2538236

The Guardian:  The US government deliberately made the desert deadly for migrants
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/dec/29/the-us-government-deliberately-made-the-desert-deadly-for-migrants?utm_term=RWRpdG9yaWFsX0d1YXJkaWFuVG9kYXlVUy0xODEyMzA%3D&utm_source=esp&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=GuardianTodayUS&CMP=GTUS_email

TRUMPGATE
The Mueller investigation: What to watch for in 2019
https://thehill.com/policy/national-security/422518-the-mueller-investigation-what-to-watch-for-in-2019

Dossier fails the test of time; Trump-Russia collusion claims now called 'likely false'
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2018/dec/30/michael-steeles-russia-dossier-donald-trump-fails-/?utm_source=Boomtrain&utm_medium=manual&utm_campaign=20180326&utm_term=newsalert&utm_content=newsalert&bt_ee=2j3l2ze7%2FXJ6MMMPUn9ugGD%2B3110pHYS6Augt5J8f58kADtmIKy37Glpx7UUPAMp&bt_ts=1546212600521

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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)