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

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© 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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Fake doctor scammed sex abuse victims with bogus therapy

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

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

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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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Staunch antiwar activist Justin Raimondo dead at 67

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

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

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


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Tucker Carlson: Democrats have officially gone insane

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Democratic candidates take a hard-left turn at first presidential primary debate.


Comment: The first part of the above report would have been rightly regarded as material useful for a comedy sketch in the past - but it seems not anymore for a great number of people. This short Monty Python film extract nicely encapsulates the lunacy of the situation:




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Report: Disruptions caused by robotics will mostly harm 'poorest economies & lower-skilled workers'

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A recently released research report shows that economic disruption caused by technological advances in the robotics industry will have a disproportionate impact on poorer countries and poor regions within countries.

'How robots change the world', produced by Oxford Economics, examines the impact that the breathtaking growth in sophistication in robotic technology will have on economies across the globe.

Though there is undoubtedly huge potential for innovation and savings for businesses, there is also considerable cause for concern as well. In particular, the report raises the issue of job losses caused by robots taking on job tasks currently or previously performed by people. It notes that in many places "the impact will aggravate social and economic stresses from unemployment and income inequality."

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Two public pools in southeast France shut down over burkini ban protest

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Two public swimming pools in southeast France have been closed amid controversy over a burkini ban protest as temperatures continue to soar across the country.

A group of women wearing burkinis and activists from the Alliance Citoyenne rights group went to the Grenoble pools to protest a municipal ban on the Muslim swimwear on Sunday.

The women demanded that they be allowed to swim while wearing the garments, arguing that the rule requiring men to wear swim briefs and women to wear bikinis or swimsuits is discriminatory, and calling for the regulations to be changed to accomodate burkini wearers.