The benchmark Nikkei stock index has fallen on its final trading day of 2018. Other Asian stocks have ended the day in positive territory.
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Friday Open Thread | What the Loss of Mattis Means | 3CHICSPOLITICO
Mattis wasn’t perfect. Not even close. But, because of the rest of the clown car surrounding Dolt45, he was reassurance for the world that there was at least of pocket of normalcy. But, he’s gone….…
Source: Friday Open Thread | What the Loss of Mattis Means | 3CHICSPOLITICO
Protests disrupt response operations in two Ebola hot spots
Trump ‘accidentally reveals location and identities of US Navy Seals in Iraq’
Trying to make himself look good without thinking of the consequences – just looking good.

- Video posted on Twitter appears to show covert special ops team
- Typically such images would be blurred to protect members
After making a holiday visit to US troops in Iraq, Donald Trump posted a video on Twitter of himself posing with Navy Seals – apparently revealing the special ops team’s deployment in the country, which is typically kept secret.
At War: My Husband Was Killed in Niger. His Death Only Became Real to Me When I Saw His Coffin.
The wife of an American soldier killed in the Niger ambush recounts the day she and her sons collected his remains at the airport.
People don’t post facts to Twitter, Elon Musk claims in ‘pedo’ defamation defence
Being a jerk in public and defaming a non-public figure is a no, no.

Elon Musk’s lawyers ask a judge to dismiss a defamation lawsuit by a British diver who the Tesla chief executive had labelled a “pedo guy”, arguing the comments were “just imaginative attacks” protected by the US constitution’s first amendment.
Inside Facebook’s Secret Rulebook for Global Political Speech
no easy answers but people should not die because of people using it to encourage violence and hate. Under fire for stirring up distrust and violence, the social network has vowed to police its users. But leaked documents raise serious questions about its approach.
Germany Considers Recruiting Foreign Nationals for Military
Irony – German mercenaries were deployed by Brits against Americans. Now sell German citizenship to poor Poles or Hungarians? Seven years after ending conscription, Germany is concerned about being able to fill its ranks, especially for highly specialized jobs.
‘Super sponge’ seen as absorbent next step in oil spill mitigation
Better yet – quit oil! 
Engineers at the University of Calgary say they’ve come up with a fresh and effective new technique in the global hunt for a better way to clean up oil spills.
‘Gifts for fascist friends’: Mussolini’s calendar comeback
The only good place for Italian Fascists is the end of a meathook…

Il Duce and Hitler memorabilia are for sale in Rome, as rightwing populism dismantles taboos
There is no hint of embarrassment as the woman clambers on a chair to reach the high shelf of her newspaper kiosk opposite the Italian interior ministry in Rome. “This is just part of the job,” she says as she hands over the final copy of a 2019 calendar dedicated to the fascist dictator Benito Mussolini.
A flick through from January to December reveals various images of the rotund man known as Il Duce (the Leader): addressing a crowd bare-chested; punching the air in triumph after signing Italy’s 1939 pact with Germany and striding through Rome in military garb.
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