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Conspiracies Abound After Bizarre Venezuela Helicopter Incident - Bloomberg

A police officer commands a heavily-armed helicopter, buzzes downtown Caracas, disappears; President Nicolas Maduro takes to the airwaves to denounce a “terrorist attack”; the opposition calls it a staged event by the president to justify a power grab. Now, the morning after, crisis-weary Venezuelans are left to try to make sense of it all.

On Tuesday evening, a police helicopter circled low over downtown Caracas, where the supreme court, ministries and presidential palace lie. Gunfire and explosions were heard in the area, while there were no injuries, according to a news release from the court.

Venezuelan authorities inspect the area around the Supreme Court of Justice in Caracas on June 27.Photographer: Miguel Gutierrez/EPA
In a late-night address, Venezuela’s information minister identified the attacker as Oscar Perez, a member of the country’s elite police force and investigation unit. Little is known about Perez, who the government said is still at large. In a video posted on his Instagram account, the pilot, flanked by masked men holding rifles, declares insurrectionists “warriors of god” seeking to end a corrupt government that has trampled citizens’ rights.

Like many things in Venezuela, it’s hard to nail down facts and many wondered whether the whole incident had been staged, as local media highlighted the acting experience of the pilot. Other posts of Perez’s Instagram account feature him working crimes, scuba diving and riding horses, and indicate that he acted in a 2015 Venezuelan film, “Suspended Death.”

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Arrest made after Ten Commandments monument at Arkansas Capitol toppled, shattered

A 6-foot-tall stone Ten Commandments monument installed Tuesday on the Arkansas Capitol grounds was toppled less than 24 hours later after a 32-year-old Arkansas man drove a vehicle into the statue, apparently while streaming the act live on Facebook, officials said.

Chris Powell, a spokesman with the Secretary of State's Office, said he was called early Tuesday and told a man drove a vehicle through the monument. That driver — identified in an arrest report as Michael Tate Reed of Van Buren — was arrested by Capitol police shortly after, Powell said. News reports indicate Reed was previously accused of destroying a Ten Commandments monument in Oklahoma.

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Dubai Police to deploy robotic patrols | GulfNews.com

Dubai: Months after Dubai unveiled the first flying taxis in the world, Dubai Police on Tuesday unveiled another believed world’s first — autonomous, self-driving miniature police cars that are expected to hit the streets by year-end.

The robotic vehicles will be equipped with biometric software to scan for wanted criminals and undesirables who are suspected or are breaking laws, police said.

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Elizabeth Warren: ‘The next step is single-payer’ health care | The Seattle Times

WASHINGTON — Sen. Elizabeth Warren said Tuesday that opposing the Republican health-care bill wasn’t enough and the Democratic Party should start running on a new national single-payer plan.

“President Obama tried to move us forward with health-care coverage by using a conservative model that came from one of the conservative think tanks that had been advanced by a Republican governor in Massachusetts,” she told The Wall Street Journal. ”Now it’s time for the next step. And the next step is single payer.”

Polling has shown government-provided health care to be a very popular notion among Americans. Depending on whether it’s described as a public option, Medicare for all, or federally funded universal health care, proposals are supported by 57 to 61 percent of Americans, compared with only 19 to 24 percent opposed.

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Yellen: Banks 'very much stronger'; another financial crisis not likely 'in our lifetime'

Fed Chair Janet Yellen said the banking system is "very much stronger" due to Fed supervision and higher capital levels.
Yellen also predicted that because of the measures the Fed has taken, another financial crisis is unlikely "in our lifetime."

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Google, Facebook are super monopolies: Roger McNamee

The EU's $2.7 billion antitrust fine isn't large enough to change Google's behavior, McNamee says.
"The share of the markets they operate in is literally on the same scale that Standard Oil had ... more than 100 years ago — with the big differences that their reach is now global, not just within a single country," he says.

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Man Jailed After Drywall Powder Mistaken For Cocaine « CBS Detroit

OVIEDO, Fla. (AP) – A Florida man spent 90 days in jail after police officers who stopped him for driving without headlights said white powder found in his car was cocaine.

But Karlos Cashe walked out of jail last week after lab results determined the powder in the handyman’s car was actually drywall.

Cashe tells WFTV he repeatedly told officers in Oviedo the substance was drywall. But after running a check they found he was on probation for marijuana and cocaine charges in 2015. Cashe says a K-9 alerted on his vehicle and an officer’s field test was positive for cocaine.

Court records show he was denied bond because he was accused of violating probation.

It took nearly three months for lab test results, which were negative for cocaine.

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Half of Americans are spending their entire paycheck (or more) - Jun. 27, 2017

Nearly half of Americans say their expenses are equal to or greater than their income, according to a new study from the Center for Financial Services Innovation. And for those 18 to 25 the percentage is over half, up to 54%.
"Half of America has no financial cushion," says Jennifer Tescher, president and CEO of CFSI, which released the study. "They are living really close to the edge."
Of the 25% who say they have too much debt, 96% report being stressed. This kind of financial stress has lasting health effects for those constantly working to cover the nut, says Tescher. "We can't deal with their health problems if we can't deal with their financial health."
With one out of every two people maxed-out with expenses, it is likely you or someone you know. "It's your co-workers, the receptionist, the guy mowing your lawn, the woman who takes care of your kids."
Maybe it's you.

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Arrest made after Ten Commandments monument at Arkansas Capitol toppled, shattered

A 6-foot-tall stone Ten Commandments monument installed Tuesday on the Arkansas Capitol grounds was toppled less than 24 hours later after a 32-year-old Arkansas man drove a vehicle into the statue, apparently while streaming the act live on Facebook, officials said.

Chris Powell, a spokesman with the Secretary of State's Office, said he was called early Tuesday and told a man drove a vehicle through the monument. That driver — identified in an arrest report as Michael Tate Reed of Van Buren — was arrested by Capitol police shortly after, Powell said. News reports indicate Reed was previously accused of destroying a Ten Commandments monument in Oklahoma.

Facebook video posted early Wednesday is of a man calling himself Michael Reed who describes his beliefs in Christ as well as the separation of church and state.

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Bad--- Sheriff Just Began PERFECT Plan To Rid U.S. Of Muslims After Bloodiest Ramadan In History

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This Unexpected US City Is Being WIPED OUT By Muslim Migrants

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Obama Will NOT Like What This Brave Marine Said About His “Legacy”

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Obama Nailed With Huge Corruption Lawsuit – $17 Billion Of Taxpayer Money Is Gone

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BREAKING Arkansas Bar Gives Hillary Clinton The Worst News Of Her Life

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Taxpayers Are Funding Animal Tests for Homemade Abortions | The Weekly Standard

According to government data analyzed by the taxpayer watchdog White Coat Waste Project, the National Toxicology Program (NTP)—a joint program of the National Institutes of Health, Centers for Disease Control and Food and Drug Administration—is engaged in hundreds of planned and ongoing animal tests for pesticides, industrial chemicals, foods, natural supplements and even cosmetics. But that’s only the start of the gruesome news.

Two of the substances on the NTP animal testing list are Black cohosh and Dong Quai. These herbs are marketed in part as treatments for menstrual cramps and erectile dysfunction. But they are best known as a way to induce “herbal abortions.”

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Sharyl Attkisson: 'Well-Funded Actors' Manipulate News and the Way We Think | Fox News Insider

Investigative journalist Sharyl Attkisson slammed what she called "transactional journalism," calling it "wholly inappropriate."

"Transactional journalism" refers to inappropriate dealings behind the scenes some journalists have with political actors, the television host and author of the new book The Smear said.

"Virtually every image you run across, whether it is in the news or on social media or elsewhere, even on comedy shows is being put there, [the players I interviewed in the 'smear universe'] say, for a purpose by somebody who wants you to think something that may not necessarily be a consensus at all, or may not even be true," Attkisson told host Shannon Bream.

"Well-funded actors" with "fake accounts" on social media and "a ton of money" use them to manipulate how we think, Attkisson said.

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Homeless camps becoming entrenched in Oakland - San Francisco Chronicle

Lee Smith was one of the first homeless people to pitch a tent near 26th and Wood streets in West Oakland. Now, four years later, he has 100 neighbors, including two pregnant women.

The place looks like a Third World shantytown, a village for the city’s poorest on the fringes of its bustling center. It’s one of about 100 such sprawling encampments in Oakland, and they’re not going away anytime soon.

They’re likely to get even bigger.

Just as the Bay Area’s tech boom has reshaped Oakland in different ways than it has San Francisco, so has its homeless crisis. But unlike San Francisco, Oakland is just beginning to tackle the problem.

San Francisco has a mature infrastructure to help the homeless — from cutting-edge Navigation Centers that help people find shelter to a recent $100 million charitable donation to support the chronically destitute.

Oakland is still experimenting with how to respond to the crisis. The city has a sliver of the money San Francisco has — its budget is about one-tenth the size — and little of the coordinated philanthropic and corporate support that San Francisco enjoys.

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CBO: Income Taxes Up 9.5% Next Year; But Debt Climbs More Than $1 Trillion

(CNSNews.com) - Unless current laws are changed, federal individual income tax collections will increase by 9.5 percent in fiscal 2018, which begins on Oct. 1, according to data released today by the Congressional Budget Office.

At the same time, however, the federal debt will increase by more than $1 trillion.

In fiscal 2017, which ends on Sept. 30, the federal government will collect $3.315 trillion in total taxes, according to the projections the CBO released with its "Update to the Budget and Economic Outlook: 2017 to 2027."

That $3.315 trillion in total taxes will include $1.574 trillion in individual income taxes; $1,164 trillion in payroll taxes; $310 billion in corporate income taxes; and $267 billion in other taxes.

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Germany to pass same-sex marriage law

Berlin (AFP) - Germany is expected to legalise same-sex marriage on Friday, joining many other western democracies in granting gay and lesbian couples full rights, including adoption.

The election-year bill is being pushed by Chancellor Angela Merkel's leftist rivals who pounced on a U-turn she made Monday -- a manoeuvre that left many of her conservative lawmakers fuming.

Barring an 11th-hour hiccup, the lower house is set to approve the law hours before the Bundestag heads into summer recess. Lawmakers have added the matter to Friday's agenda, clearing up any doubt a vote would take place.

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Study: Women Store DNA From Every Male They Have Sex With | Neon Nettle

The study also had two implications: The first was that women could absorb DNA through her lifetime that changes her phenotype (her overall appearance and Health. Some women who are known to be promiscuous with multiple sexual partners have been known to change appearance.The second implication comes from the fact that single mothers have DNA from their children residing permanently within their bodies.Thus a man who reproduces with a single mother will have a child that retains the DNA from the previous child.

This study really reenforces the Law of Chastity! More and more, science is starting to prove that the tennates of the gospel are for our health and benefit. Look at what the Word of Wisdom has prevented us from over the years.

I think this was the most interesting thing I learned in that news article.

Epigenetics has raised questions against evolutionary theory because it shows genetic adaption can occur within individual organisms without the need for natural selection. New research is revealing how little we actually know about how the human genome works, suggesting a more complex picture than we’ve imagined.

Telegony (pregnancy) - Wikipedia

Telegony is a theory in heredity, holding that offspring can inherit the characteristics of a previous mate of the female parent; thus the child of a widowed or remarried woman might partake of traits of a previous husband. Experiments on several species failed to provide any evidence that offspring would inherit any character from their mother's previous mates.[1][medical citation needed] A similar phenomenon, whereby environmental (non-genetic) traits were passed, was later discovered in a species of fly.

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Fake News: Associated Press Engulfed in CNN-Level Scandal as It Covers Up Invention of Imaginary Pruitt Meeting - Breitbart

The Associated Press is at it again, pushing more fake news. Sadly, the once-great news wire service is trying to cover up its mistake—nearly the exact mistake that cost three editorial staffers at CNN their jobs in a scandal that first exploded a week ago today.

A Breitbart News investigation has led to the correction by the Associated Press–which originally resisted–of the fake news it printed as deeper questions of responsibility, accountability, and journalistic ethics consume the AP heading into Fourth of July weekend.

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CNN screws up — again | Page Six

During the piece, it showed a cover from the tabloid, which seemed to be about a scandal involving GOP senator Ted Cruz and his wife, Heidi Cruz.

Unfortunately, the cover is — literally — fake news.

The cover — which has the headline “Heidi Cruz: Betrayed by Cheating Husband!” and promised details on a “sordid threesome, sleazy love letters and sensational photo proof — has never appeared on the National Enquirer, according to sources at the magazine.

It seems that it may have been created as clickbait.

We’re told the network is taking the matter seriously, and that it has been referred to the networks standards and practices department for review.

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Acetaminophen can reduce a person's capacity to empathize with another person's pain

In research published online in the journal Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, scientists from the National Institutes of Health and Ohio State University describe the results of two experiments they conducted involving more than 200 college students.

Their conclusion: Acetaminophen, the most common drug ingredient in the United States, can reduce a person's capacity to empathize with another person's pain, whether that pain is physical or emotional.

"We don't know why acetaminophen is having these effects, but it is concerning," senior author Baldwin Way, an Ohio State psychologist, said in a statement. "Empathy is important. If you are having an argument with your spouse and you just took acetaminophen, this research suggests you might be less understanding of what you did to hurt your spouse's feelings."

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Newborn baby may be the first to be registered ‘gender unknown’ because its mum insists only the tot can decide what sex it wants to be

Kori Doty, who identifies as a 'non-binary trans person', wants Canadian authorities to issue 'non gendered' birth certificate for eight-month-old child

A PARENT who identifies as a “non-binary trans person” is demanding their baby’s birth certificate be the world’s first to be marked “gender unknown.”

Canadian Kori Doty, who has a moustache and claims to be neither male or female, has been fighting to keep Searyl Atli’s gender off government records since giving birth last November.