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Russian Lawmaker Proposes Mailing Putin Sperm to Impregnate Russian Women

'Each female citizen of Russia will be able to receive by mail the genetic material of the President'

The Russian-language newspaper, Trust, is reporting that an actual lawmaker—albeit one with a history of strange ideas—has introduced to the State Duma a bill that proposes extending the greatness of Russian by having children using the sperm of Vladimir Putin. To the best of our research, the Observer is the first to translate this strange proposal into English.

“The essence of my proposition is simple”, says the Chairwoman Of Parliamentary Commission on Women’s affairs, Children and Family, Yelena Borisovna Mizoulina. “Each female citizen of Russia will be able to receive by mail the genetic material of the President, get pregnant from him and have a baby. These mothers will be receiving special allowances from the government.”

Ms. Mizoulina, who holds a PhD in law, made the proposal in a roundtable discussion regarding the issue of fertility and Russia. She went on to describe what would happen after President Putin’s babies were born, presuming that they will be male, at least in the translation commissioned by the Observer.

“And after the birth of the child, he will have to be given to be raised into the special institutions that resemble Souvorov Schools with the aim that he will be loyal to the Motherland and personally to the President of RF.” A Souvorov school resembled the “military boarding school” concept familiar to Americans and RF means Russian Federation.

“Children born from the Russian president in the future will form the military and political elite of the state,” Mizoulina is quoted as saying.

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Gay marriage ruling means high court review likely

CINCINNATI (AP) — The expanding legal acceptance of same-sex marriage in the United States hit a roadblock on Thursday when a federal appeals court panel upheld anti-gay marriage laws in four states, making it more likely that the Supreme Court will take up the issue.

The 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals panel that heard arguments on gay marriage bans or restrictions in Ohio, Michigan, Kentucky and Tennessee on Aug. 6 split 2-1, with Circuit Judge Jeffrey Sutton writing the majority opinion for himself and a fellow George W. Bush appointee, while a Bill Clinton appointee disagreed.

The ruling concluded that states have the right to set rules for marriage and that such change as expanding a definition of marriage that dates "back to the earliest days of human history" is better done through political processes.

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85 richest now have as much money as poorest 3.5B

"There's been class warfare going on for the last 20 years, and my class has won."

Billionaire investor Warren Buffett made that remark more than three years ago and it still holds true today — only the gap between the richest and the poorest has gotten even wider.

Here's how bad it is: Oxfam now calculates that the 85 richest billionaires on the planet, including the likes of Carlos Slim, Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg, have as much money as the 3.5 billion poorest people.

And for all the talk about the urgent need to address income inequality, the mega-rich just keep on getting richer.

How much richer?

Oxfam estimates that between March 2013 and March 2014, those same 85 billionaires saw their wealth grow by $668 million every day.

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HuffPost defends disciplinary actions against reporters, editors

Two of the incidents involved journalists who were suspended after publishing sensitive articles. The other pertains to a deeply reported investigative piece that was was being prepped for publication when the site's co-founder and editor-in-chief, Arianna Huffington, stepped in with objections to certain aspects of the reporting, sources familiar with the matter told Capital.

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A Creepy Website Is Streaming From 73,000 Private Security Cameras

It shouldn't be so easy to peer into a stranger's bedroom, much less hundreds of strangers' bedrooms. But a website has collected the streaming footage from over 73,000 IP cameras whose owners haven't changed their default passwords. Is this about highlighting an important security problem, or profiting off creepy voyeurism—or both?

Insecam claims to feature feeds from IP cameras all over the world, including 11,000 in the U.S. alone. A quick browse will pull up parking lots and stores but also living rooms and bedrooms. "This site has been designed in order to show the importance of the security settings," the site's about page says. But it's also clearly running and profiting off ads.

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FBI says agent impersonated AP reporter

SEATTLE (AP) — FBI Director James Comey says an agent impersonated an Associated Press reporter during a 2007 criminal investigation, a ruse the news organization says could undermine its credibility.

In a letter Thursday to The New York Times, Comey said the agent "portrayed himself as an employee of The Associated Press" to help catch a 15-year-old suspect accused of making bomb threats at a high school near Olympia, Washington. It was publicized last week that the FBI forged an AP story during its investigation, but Comey's letter revealed the agency went further and had an agent actually pretend to be a reporter for the wire service.

Comey said the agent posing as an AP reporter asked the suspect to review a fake AP article about threats and cyberattacks directed at the school, "to be sure that the anonymous suspect was portrayed fairly."

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Sao Paulo desperate for water as drought hits millions in Brazil

ITU, Brazil – It’s been nearly a month since Diomar Pereira has had running water at his home in Itu, a commuter city outside Sao Paulo that is at the epicenter of the worst drought to hit southeastern Brazil in more than eight decades.

Like others in this city whose indigenous name means “big waterfall,” Pereira must scramble to find water for drinking, bathing and cooking. On a recent day when temperatures hit 32 Celsius, he drove to a community kiosk where people with empty soda bottles and jugs lined up to use a water spigot. Pereira filled several 13-gallon containers, which he loaded into his Volkswagen bug.

“I have a job, and five children to raise and am always in a rush to find water so we can bathe,” said Pereira, a truck driver who makes the trip to get water every couple of days. “It’s very little water for a lot of people.”

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43 ARRESTED IN PAKISTAN FOR BURNING CHRISTIAN COUPLE ALIVE IN KILN

Pakistani police have detained forty-three people believed to have taken part in a mob killing of a Christian couple who allegedly damaged a Koran. According to several reports, the couple was beaten to death by a hundreds-strong mob, who were enraged after hearing that their religion had apparently been insulted.

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Oneidas puts slot machines in convenience store

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Federal sites leaked the locations of people seeking AIDS services for years

Two federal government Web sites that help people find AIDS-related medical services have begun routinely encrypting user data after years in which they let sensitive information -- including the real-world locations of site visitors – onto the Internet unprotected.

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Drone army seeks to redefine 'neighborhood watch'

DESOTO COUNTY, MS (WMC) -
You might expect to find an army in DeSoto County ... an army of drones, that is. A Southaven man has an army of hand-crafted drones, all controlled from inside of his customized command center.

Robert Estes is self-confessed country boy.

"They probably think I am some type of redneck, country boy, and don't realize the extent we go to," Estes said.

But despite humble beginnings, Estes established his own business and built what he says is the first drone command center in the country.

"This will make a change in the drone industry," he said.

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I thought the house Dr Jones what's to buy for a needy family was cheep.

At $188, is this America's cheapest house?

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Google Wants to Store Your Genome

For $25 a year, Google will keep a copy of any genome in the cloud.

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‘A mass sterilization exercise’: Kenyan doctors find anti-fertility agent in UN tetanus vaccine

Kenya’s Catholic bishops are charging two United Nations organizations with sterilizing millions of girls and women under cover of an anti-tetanus inoculation program sponsored by the Kenyan government.

According to a statement released Tuesday by the Kenya Catholic Doctors Association, the organization has found an antigen that causes miscarriages in a vaccine being administered to 2.3 million girls and women by the World Health Organization and UNICEF. Priests throughout Kenya reportedly are advising their congregations to refuse the vaccine.

“We sent six samples from around Kenya to laboratories in South Africa. They tested positive for the HCG antigen,” Dr. Muhame Ngare of the Mercy Medical Centre in Nairobi told LifeSiteNews. “They were all laced with HCG.”

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More Than Six in 10 Americans Say Guns Make Homes Safer

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France Stinks... Literally

Having promised that he would not run again if unemployment rates remain high, French President Francois Hollande faces not just record low approval ratings but feces-flinging-farmers. In a show of protest against expressing their anger at collapsing prices (due in part to sanctions against Russia), increased environmental regulations, cheap imports, and high costs, thousands took to the streets, dumping pumpkins, potatoes, and carrots, burning cars, flinging apples, and spraying $#!% all over a government building in Toulouse. The French are not amused...

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Mexico named a lawless state by rights organization

Mexico has been designated as a lawless state, a human rights group said Thursday.
"Mexico is a country where the rule of law is used exclusively to explain and justify inaction and negligence from government and elected representatives," said José Miguel Vivanco, director of Human Rights Watch's Americas division.
Vivanco's remarks come in the wake of an investigation into the disappearance of 43 students from a rural teaching college on Sept. 26 in Iguala, in southwest Mexico, after a clash with police.

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The $9 Billion Witness: Meet JPMorgan Chase's Worst Nightmare

Meet the woman JPMorgan Chase paid one of the largest fines in American history to keep from talking

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The ultimate goal of the NSA is total population control

illiam Binney is one of the highest-level whistleblowers to ever emerge from the NSA. He was a leading code-breaker against the Soviet Union during the Cold War but resigned soon after September 11, disgusted by Washington’s move towards mass surveillance.

On 5 July he spoke at a conference in London organised by the Centre for Investigative Journalism and revealed the extent of the surveillance programs unleashed by the Bush and Obama administrations.

“At least 80% of fibre-optic cables globally go via the US”, Binney said. “This is no accident and allows the US to view all communication coming in. At least 80% of all audio calls, not just metadata, are recorded and stored in the US. The NSA lies about what it stores.”

The NSA will soon be able to collect 966 exabytes a year, the total of internet traffic annually. Former Google head Eric Schmidt once argued that the entire amount of knowledge from the beginning of humankind until 2003 amount to only five exabytes.

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Cop Caught on Video Attacking Defenseless Handcuffed Girl is Suing the City for Lost Pay

Bozeman, MT — An unsettling surveillance video of a Gallatin County Sheriff’s Deputy assaulting a 17-year-old handcuffed girl was made public Wednesday.

The video was released by order of a Gallatin County District Court Judge, Mike Salvagni, after a local news agency filed a request for it several months ago.

The incident took place in 2011.

The victim in the video is a 17-year-old girl whose identity has not been revealed. The assailant is Deputy Thomas Madsen, who quit his job shortly after this incident.

According to court documents the girl had turned off the lights in the room so she could go to sleep. The footage picks up right after the lights were turned back on.

The video starts out with the pair exchanging a few words.

Right before Madsen assaults the girl, he is heard saying, “…push yourself around, you’re going to find out what a world of hurt really is.”

The video was thrown out of court in this case and the charges dismissed against Madsen by Judge Holly Brown, because the video had been edited.

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Mother Calls Police to Help Her Son Take His Medicine, Cop Shows Up and Shoots Him

(TheAntiMedia) In Gretna, Florida, Juanita Donald called the police to come assist her and get her 24 year old son to take his medication, as she had done in the past.
On Tuesday morning, around 9:30 am, she called the police to help her with her son Kaldrick Donald and one officer showed up, Sergeant Charles Brown.
Charles Brown ended up tasing Kaldrick Donald repeatedly, and then took him into the isolated bathroom in the family’s house and shot him multiple times, killing him.
Brown murdered Donald in the presence his pregnant sister and mother, and no one can even say why. He was completely unarmed, and somehow not completely sane.
His mother said “I heard my baby say, I want my mama after he shot him, and then I didn’t hear anything else.”
His mother said she was “expecting them to take him to the Apalachee Center like before”, but instead a single officer came and escalated the situation, murdering him in front of his family.

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Or, my favorite plan, shot and kill the intruder.

DO YOU KNOW WHAT TO DO DURING A HOME INVASION?

Keep your cell phone and car keys with you at night. You'll be ready to call police and your key fob's panic button can create a great distraction.

Pepper spray and baseball bats can be good go-to items, but any heavy object can help if you decide to fight.

If you come face to face with an intruder and you're not prepared, lie down and do not look at them. Pretend to have a heart attack or breathing problem.

"Don't let fear paralyze you. When you become paralyzed by fear, that's when you really do become a victim," Yanez said. "Nothing is worth the life or safety of your family. Let them take whatever they want to take."

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Half of All Stars May Lie Outside Galaxies

Scientists reported Thursday that as many as half of all stars may lie outside galaxies.

Individually, these lonesome stars are too faint to detect. But together, they create a hazy background of fluctuating near-infrared light. A team of astronomers from the U.S., Japan and Korea say the diffuse glow appears to be from stars booted out of their galaxies by mergers and collisions.

The measurements by Michael Zemcov of the California Institute of Technology and his colleagues were made on two suborbital rocket flights, launched in 2010 and 2012 from New Mexico, and validated by NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope.

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Ferguson Protesters Demand Police Be ‘Tolerant’ Of ‘Minor Lawbreaking'

A group of Ferguson protesters called the Don’t Shoot Coalition have presented a list of 19 “Rules of Engagement” to the Ferguson Police Department, but one of their demands is the police tolerate “lawbreaking.”

“Police will be more tolerant of more minor lawbreaking… when deciding whether to escalate the use of force,” reads rule 15.