PLATT - MISC News

GENERAL INTEREST
Woman finds strange man sleeping in bed with her dog
https://nypost.com/2019/01/01/woman-finds-strange-man-sleeping-in-bed-with-guard-dog/?utm_campaign=iosapp&utm_source=mail_app

Resolved: To speak English 
http://www.jewishworldreview.com/cols/thomas010119.php3

Walter Williams: The Worst Enemy of Black People
https://www.cnsnews.com/commentary/walter-e-williams/walter-williams-worst-enemy-black-people

HEALTH
Wireless 'pacemaker for the brain' could offer new treatment for neurological disorders
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2019/01/190101094517.htm

________ UNHINGED
Doctor, 27, who tweeted that she would 'purposely give Jews the wrong medications' still has her medical license - despite being condemned by the Cleveland Clinic where she worked - as it emerges she has been posting anti-Semitic messages for years
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6546831/Anti-Semitic-U-S-doctor-tweeted-purposely-Jews-wrong-medications.html

HISTORY
Eugene Bullard, The Black Swallow of Death
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=84yGPsehrkc&feature=share&fbclid=IwAR3RrAIEJCqAFuzfrOxf9pax48X0HS1cPc_KnXD7MXlcEfM9J6Le9FkDaJw

WWI: The War That Changed Everything
https://www.prageru.com/videos/wwi-war-changed-everything

ENVIRONMENT
Tree of life is dying: Africa's ancient and strange baobab trees are being 'killed by climate change'
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6545225/Africas-ancient-strange-baobab-trees-killed-climate-change.html

SCIENCE
The periodic tables we almost had
https://qz.com/1513175/the-fascinating-design-history-of-the-periodic-table-of-elements/

Scientists think they know where the early universe’s dark matter has been hiding
https://www.yahoo.com/news/scientists-think-know-where-early-225426005.html

TECHNOLOGY
The AI that learnt to hide data from its creators to CHEAT at tasks they gave it
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-6545281/The-AI-learnt-hide-data-creators-CHEAT-tasks-gave-it.html

Miracle of miracles --- The Internet didn't implode! A year after net neutrality's repeal, it's alive and well --- and faster 
http://jewishworldreview.com/jeff/jacoby010219.php3

DEFENSE
The British Army's forgotten doomsday weapon: How Cold War scientists secretly created a seven-tonne nuclear landmine designed to be triggered by CHICKENS to take out invading Soviet army
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6544483/How-British-scientists-invented-nuclear-landmines-designed-triggered-CHICKENS.html

Trump: I 'essentially' fired Defense Secretary Mattis; 'What's he done for me?'
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2019/jan/2/trump-said-he-essentially-fired-mattis/?bt_ee=IuB9GMkl07zs8e0wQNq6a7g5aiyYS8VKPnOiniof5IOdJBOz4A2LWKMZCx5bLuB1&bt_ts=1546457628533

JUSTICE AND THE COURTS
Judges plow past lack of funds from shutdown 
https://washingtontimes-dc.newsmemory.com/?token=b99084cefc5946679efff1999dcf2f91_5c2ccff4_5cd1fdb&selDate=20190102&goTo=A01&artid=0&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=washingtontimes-E-Editions&utm_source=washingtontimes&utm_content=Read-Button

JUDICIARY
Senate approves 77 Trump nominations in end-of-Congress deal
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2019/jan/2/senate-approves-77-trump-nominations-in-end-of-con/?utm_source=Boomtrain&utm_medium=manual&utm_campaign=20180326&utm_term=newsalert&utm_content=newsalert&bt_ee=OZNGnwsFctaW%2B6uI1f1bbRVQB%2FMRF577H7pJjIOP31yHvQHCMaw7mDxfOxGyUWeP&bt_ts=1546480946498

BIG BROTHER
Censoring China’s Internet, for Stability and Profit
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/02/business/china-internet-censor.html?emc=edit_ne_20190102&nl=evening-briefing&nlid=5893540820190102&te=1

MEDIA
Ex-New York Times editor Jill Abramson rips paper's 'unmistakably anti-Trump' bias
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2019/jan/2/jill-abramson-ex-new-york-times-editor-rips-papers/?utm_source=Boomtrain&utm_medium=manual&utm_campaign=20180326&utm_term=newsalert&utm_content=newsalert&bt_ee=9KjA5QgJDxa1yBmZz9fiNxDV6hpquemkzn2s43YuJc9neakgKD9JzY4zPVdcgz6%2F&bt_ts=1546452721698

SOCIAL MEDIA
Opinion: How to stop social media and technology from stealing your precious time 
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/how-to-stop-social-media-and-technology-from-stealing-your-precious-time-2019-01-02

CHINA
Xi Jinping Warns Taiwan That Unification Is the Goal and Force Is an Option
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/01/world/asia/xi-jinping-taiwan-china.html?emc=edit_nn_p_20190102&nl=morning-briefing&nlid=58935408section%3DwhatElse&section=whatElse&te=1

NKOR
Kim: Ready to meet with Trump, ready to go it alone
https://washingtontimes-dc.newsmemory.com/?token=b99084cefc5946679efff1999dcf2f91_5c2ccff4_5cd1fdb&selDate=20190102&goTo=A08&artid=0&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=washingtontimes-E-Editions&utm_source=washingtontimes&utm_content=Read-Button

SOCIALISM
Spiraling Venezuela crisis threatens to infect entire region, analysts say 
https://start.att.net/news/read/article/fox_news-spiraling_venezuela_crisis_threatens_to_infect_ent-rfoxnews/category/news

TRUMPGATE
Adversary pokes holes in Mueller Russia case 
https://washingtontimes-dc.newsmemory.com/?token=b99084cefc5946679efff1999dcf2f91_5c2ccff4_5cd1fdb&selDate=20190102&goTo=A01&artid=2&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=washingtontimes-E-Editions&utm_source=washingtontimes&utm_content=Read-Button

POLITICS
Twenty Things You Probably Didn’t Know About Bernie Sanders 
https://www.nationalreview.com/2018/12/bernie-sanders-twenty-things-you-didnt-know/

Democrats to ask for 10 years of presidential tax returns in new bill 
https://start.att.net/news/read/article/cnn-democrats_to_ask_for_10_years_of_presidential_tax-cnn2/category/news

-- 
"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)