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Missouri's only abortion clinic, a Planned Parenthood, awaiting critical court decision

Meghan Keneally
ABC News
Fri, 28 Jun 2019 11:11 UTC
Protest
© Saul Loeb/AFP/Getty ImagesIn this file photo taken on May 31, 2019, pro-choice supporters and staff of Planned Parenthood hold a rally outside the Planned Parenthood Reproductive Health Services Center in St. Louis.
The month-long saga over whether or not the lone abortion clinic in Missouri will be allowed to remain open could end with a court decision Friday.

The only remaining abortion clinic in Missouri is currently operating as a result of a court order that was issued that allowed it to continue to perform abortions in spite of their state health license being denied.

A circuit court judge announced earlier this week that the preliminary injunction, which was initially set to last until June 21, was then pushed back to June 28.
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Dominoes

What the frack! US shale industry sees 'another round of bankruptcies' looming

Nick Cunningham
Oilprice.com
Thu, 27 Jun 2019 16:36 UTC
oil pump
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The recent downturn in oil prices forced a slowdown in the U.S. shale industry, and top executives appear to be gloomier than ever.

According to a survey by the Dallas Federal Reserve, the business activity index in Texas fell to -0.6 in the second quarter, down from a positive reading of 10.8 in the first quarter. A negative reading means that business activity actually contracted from the prior quarter, offering evidence that the slide in oil prices led to a pullback in spending and drilling.

While oil and gas production continued to rise in the second quarter, it did so at a slower pace than in months past. The Dallas Fed said that its spending index actually fell into negative territory, again, an indication of contraction.

A slowdown in drilling is felt most acutely by oilfield services companies, who make their money from drilling volume and activity, rather than from oil sales. Not only did activity dip, but the prices that oilfield services charge for their services fell sharply, and margins were "notably lower" in the second quarter, the Dallas Fed said.
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Sheriff

Pot, meet kettle: TASER calls out facial recognition in police body cameras as unethical


RT
Fri, 28 Jun 2019 16:32 UTC
taser and body cam
© Reuters / Joshua Lott / Gary Cameron
The company that put the ability to electrocute civilians in every cop's pocket has declared it will not sell facial recognition software with its body camera products, claiming the tech is not reliable enough for ethical use.

"Current face matching technology raises serious ethical concerns," Taser - which quietly renamed itself Axon in 2017 after its line of police body cameras - stated in a blog post on Thursday, announcing that "Axon will not be commercializing face matching products on our body matching cameras at this time."

The company's decision follows the first report from its independent AI and Policing Technology Ethics Board, which concluded the tech was "not yet reliable enough to justify its use on body-worn cameras" and "expressed particular concern regarding evidence of unequal and unreliable performance across races, ethnicities, genders and other identity groups."
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Attention

2 dead, 1 injured when plane crashes into North Carolina home

Justin Doom
ABC News
Fri, 28 Jun 2019 06:17 UTC
Plane crash
© WTVDA plane crashed into a house in Cumberland County, N.C., late Thursday, June 27, 2019, killing two people.
Two people died and another was injured late Thursday when a single-engine plane slammed into a home in Hope Mills, North Carolina.

The pilot and one person in the home died at the scene, according to a statement from the North Carolina Department of Public Safety. A third person "with serious injuries" was rushed to Cape Fear Valley Medical Center in Fayetteville.
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Eye 2

Fake doctor scammed sex abuse victims with bogus therapy

Joshua Rhett Miller
NY Post
Wed, 26 Jun 2019 16:21 UTC
Phillip Stutzman
© Facebook/Sarasota County JailPhillip Stutzman
A Florida man who touted his ability to use a "powerhouse combination of psychology and quantum physics" to treat women who were sexually abused was busted for practicing medicine without a license, police said.

Phillip Stutzman, 43, of Lakewood Ranch was arrested Thursday after three women told police in Sarasota that he posed as Dr. Phillip Nikao during therapy sessions between October 2016 and January, police said Tuesday.

Stutzman - who investigators believe didn't graduate high school - is accused of presenting himself as a doctor of psychology with a master's degree in behavioral neuroscience to female patients who had been sexually abused or struggled with anxiety.

But detectives contacted state health officials and California Southern University to discover that Stutzman had no valid Florida Department of Health licenses and had falsified his degrees, police said.
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Red Flag

Indoctrinating our children: Student denounces 'victimhood culture' sociology quiz that bemoans white male privilege

Brian Min
The College Fix
Fri, 28 Jun 2019 16:14 UTC
Victim Culture
Students at Broward College enrolled in a sociology class were recently given an online quiz that has drawn criticism from one student who said the test is biased against white males.

The abbreviated summer school general sociology course is taught by Assistant Professor Mark Tromans.

According to screenshots of the quiz obtained by The College Fix, one of the questions asked: "When many students graduate from college, they are able to earn an extra $1,435 a month between the ages of 25 and 65. These students manage to earn this bonus by ___." Students are then asked to fill in the bank. The correct answer is apparently "being born male."

Another question queried why Pedro, "a legal immigrant from Mexico," would get turned down for a loan, while George, "a white male whose family has been in America for several generations," would get the same loan despite comparable levels of debt and income.
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Briefcase

Virtue signalling: Bank of America to cut business relationships with private prisons and detention centers

Kathleen Joyce
Fox Business News
Thu, 27 Jun 2019 00:00 UTC
bank of america
© REINHARD KRAUSE / Reuters
Bank of America Opens a New Window. announced it will no longer do business with the operators of private prisons and detention centers.

"We have decided to exit the relationships we have with companies providing prisoner and immigrant detention services for federal and state governments, as expeditiously as possible," a Bank of America spokesperson told FOX Business in a statement.

The second-largest bank in the U.S. said it has been "discussing the issue for some time." The decision came after the bank reviewed its policy through its environmental, social and governance (ESG) committee, Bloomberg reported. The company also met with its internal Hispanic and black leaders.

"The private sector is attempting to respond to public policy and government needs and demands in the absence of long standing and widely recognized reforms needed in criminal justice and immigration policies," a Bank of America spokesperson told FOX Business in a statement.

Comment: Modern-day slavery? Prison labor equals multibillion-dollar business for US corporations

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Roses

Staunch antiwar activist Justin Raimondo dead at 67


Antiwar.com
Fri, 28 Jun 2019 15:49 UTC
Justin Raimondo
Justin Raimondo (1951-2019)
Justin Raimondo, former editorial director and co-founder of Antiwar.com, is dead at 67. He died at his home in Sebastopol, California, with his husband, Yoshinori Abe, by his side. He had been diagnosed with 4th stage lung cancer in October 2017.

Justin co-founded Antiwar.com with Eric Garris in 1995. Under their leadership, Antiwar.com became a leading force against U.S. wars and foreign intervention, providing daily and often hourly updates and comprehensive news, analysis, and opinion on war and peace. Inspired by Justin's spirit, vision, and energy, Antiwar.com will go on.

Justin (born Dennis Raimondo, November 18, 1951) grew up in Yorktown Heights, New York and, as a teenager, became a libertarian. He was a fierce advocate of peace who hated war, and an early advocate of gay liberation. He wrote frequently for many different publications and authored several books. He was also politically active in both the Libertarian and Republican parties.

Comment: Rest in peace, Justin. Your voice will be sorely missed.

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Bulb

Jordan Peterson goes to Washington: Teaches lawmakers in Congress to 'put human face' on each other


Sputnik
Fri, 28 Jun 2019 15:02 UTC
Jordan Peterson
© Photo: jordan.b.peterson/instagram
Little is known about the dinner Peterson had with a small group of Democrats and Republicans, but one of the attendees said it was something he's never had before in two congressional terms.

Jordan Peterson, an intellectual phenomenon and a self-described 'free speech guy', set foot on the floor of the US Congress in an ambitious bid to bridge the gaps between polarised American lawmakers.

The stated goal was to convince Democrats and Republicans of "the utility of putting a human face on the people who are across the aisle" and "decrease unnecessary tension," he said in an interview with The Daily Beast on Wednesday.

Peterson acknowledged he had doubts about whether he was the right person for the endeavour, but was keen to find out for himself.

Peterson reportedly had a bipartisan dinner on Tuesday night, accompanied by author Gregg Hurwitz, his former student and friend.

Details of the meeting remain a secret, but Hurwitz was quoted as saying that a total of 20 lawmakers were in attendance.
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Cow

'Meathead' Rob Reiner continues to beat the dead horse of 'collusion' despite all evidence to the contrary


RT
Thu, 27 Jun 2019 14:29 UTC
rob reiner
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Hollywood is churning out all-star videos in order to try and convince Americans that Trump is guilty of "collusion."

For the last three months, there has been a bombshell story hiding in plain sight about an obscure government document that has been criminally under-reported by the establishment press. Thankfully, Hollywood is here to save the day and shed some much needed light on this ever-elusive information.

The document I am referring to, of course, is the Mueller Report, which according to Academy Award-nominated filmmaker and Hillary Clinton fanatic Rob Reiner, is an absolute mystery to ordinary (non-famous) Americans. In a patriotic act the equivalent of storming the beach on D-Day, Reiner has done a truly courageous and heroic thing to bring attention to this long ignored story... he made a five-minute video with his Hollywood friends.

On Thursday, June 20, a group called Now This put out the video directed by Reiner, which features celebrities such as Robert De Niro, Laurence Fishburne, and even former president-on-TV Martin Sheen, highlighting what they believe to be the criminality of Trump exposed in the report.

Reiner has been in the vanguard of Hollywood's pro-Hillary contingent and is a vociferous proponent of Trump and Russia's collusion in the 2016 election. In 2017, he teamed with David Frum to start a group called the Committee to Investigate Russia. This group also put out a video, one that starred former president-in-the-movies, Morgan Freeman, and it boldly declared that "We Are At War" with Russia.


Comment: David Frum: A neocon pundit who never saw a regime-change-inspired war he didn't like:

Comment: See: Desperate Deep State Resorts to Russia-Bashing Infomercial in Wake of FISA Memo - Act Now!!

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