In The News Today...

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Submarine_communications_cable

Traffic volume breakdown - submarine cables 99% satellites 1%
Speeds - submarine cable terabits per second, satellites 1000 megabits per second

This has been floating around for a few days

https://articles.mlive.com/news/index.ssf/2017/12/peter_hoekstra_denies_2015_com.amp

Trump's administration has no integrity. This is yet another example.

In an interview in the Netherlands, Hoekstra was asked about his comments about chaos and no-go zones in the Netherlands. He denied making those comments, and labeled it "fake news".

He was then shown a video of himself making those very comments. A question from the reporter then asked him about why he called it fake news, and...

He denied ever calling it fake news!

Bundy standoff declared mistrial: http://dailycaller.com/2017/12/22/doj-opens-probe-into-bundy-prosecutors-who-hid-evidence/

Pentagon confirms US has ground troops in Yemen, one of the poorest countries on earth. http://theantimedia.org/pentagon-confirms-multiple-us-ground-operations-yemen/

Yemen is a Proxy War between Iran and Saudi Arabia. Iran supplies those missiles but they are ineffective. I've no idea if the cholera situation there was 'assisted' or not.

Man with 1000 joints mistakes police car for taxi.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/drug-dealer-confuses-police-car-for-taxi/ar-BBHeM20?ocid=spartanntp

Floridian temporarily working in Bali, Indonesia had a monkey steal his Steelers cap. Damn fool chased the monkey and fell over thirty feet. Now in coma and family trying to use GoFundMe to airlift him to Singapore.

By the way, the money was undoubtedly trained to do it by a thief who makes a pittance selling the stolen items.

Life is cheap in the Orient.

On Edit: Life is cheap everywhere.

Gizmodo describes Wikileaks as a "disgraced transparency organization" and notes that recently Julian Assange deleted his Twitter account but not the account of WikiLeaks. JulianAssange has not responded to attempts to reach him.

Disgraced??? Its a repository for files. Those posting files there may have ulterior motives and may have been creative but Wikikleaks is not disgraced by that, only victimized.

Noted Oxford professor of ethics discards Rolf Harris CDs rather than donate them.

I would condemn Roger Crisp for his actions in tainting a work of art with extraneous matters. Yes, Gaugin took a series of child brides but he was living in Tahiti at the time. We do not judge his paintings by his actions toward his wives. Roger Crisp cloaked Harvey Weinstein with a sort of "invisibility" due to his predatory actions although Harvey Weinstein paid for his fun through time, energy, legal fees and fees to private detectives. I would condemn Roger Crisp for his actions as well as for his stupidity and lack of courage in accepting the validity of the convictions, but most of all I would condemn him for his view of himself as choosing some sort of moral high ground in discarding those CDs. Joining a lynch mob is NOT an act of morality, it is an act of betrayal of societal values. Shame and condemnation for philosopher Crisp, not praise!!

Noted artificial intelligene researchers demonstrate that algorithms are subject to Algorithm Ambush, a process of convincing an algorithm of false data such as demonstrating that a turtle can be made to appear as it were a rifle or a stop sign can be made to look like a speed sign.