PLATT - MISC News

GENERAL INTEREST

Taking the ‘Beauty’ out of Beauty Pageants 
https://www.nationalreview.com/2018/06/miss-america-swimsuit-competition-eliminated-political-correctness/

It Takes a Village…
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-06-10/it-takes-village

The High Price of Stale Grievances
https://quillette.com/2018/06/05/high-price-stale-grievances/

HEALTH
Polio makes comeback in Venezuela after decades
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2018-06-polio-comeback-venezuela-decades.html

HEALTH CARE
GOP embraces single-payer healthcare attack in California
http://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/391427-gop-embraces-single-payer-healthcare-attack-in-california

SCIENCE
Neuroscientists Accidentally Discovered a Whole New Role For The Cerebellum 
https://www.sciencealert.com/cerebellum-human-brain-neuroscience-discover-new-role-behaviour-reward-response?utm_source=ScienceAlert+-+Daily+Email+Updates&utm_campaign=dbfd71fded-MAILCHIMP_EMAIL_CAMPAIGN&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_fe5632fb09-dbfd71fded-365889541

Bacteria Survive in NASA’s Clean Rooms by Eating Cleaning Products
https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2018/06/bacteria-can-eat-the-cleaning-products-nasa-uses-to-sterilize-its-spaceships/562016/

FOREIGN POLICY
'There's a special place in hell' for Justin Trudeau after Trump 'stunt'
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2018/jun/10/peter-navarro-sees-special-place-hell-justin-trude/?utm_source=Boomtrain&utm_medium=manual&utm_campaign=20180326&utm_term=newsalert&utm_content=newsalert

HUMAN RIGHTS
U.N. Human-Rights Dissonance: From Religious Freedom to Criminalizing Blasphemy
https://www.nationalreview.com/2018/06/international-human-rights-community-freedom-often-must-yield/?utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=New%20Campaign&utm_term=GFile

NOKO
Door already ajar: Trump may struggle to isolate North Korea again
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-northkorea-usa-maximumpressure-insigh/door-already-ajar-trump-may-struggle-to-isolate-north-korea-again-idUSKCN1J600L

NOKO/SOKO
The Koreas are moving ahead
http://thehill.com/opinion/international/391373-the-koreas-are-moving-ahead

TRUMPGATE
Why the Summer Zervos case might be the most dangerous for Trump
http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/391266-why-the-summer-zervos-case-might-be-the-most-dangerous-for-trump

RUSSIAGATE
New leak indictment spells disaster for McCabe
http://thehill.com/opinion/judiciary/391472-leaks-are-hazardous-tactic-in-washington-political-warfare

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yesterday is fixed for always, making its mark on what you are today, what you will
be tomorrow"
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