A third grader had made a comment about the brownies being served to the class. After another student exclaimed that the remark was "racist," the school called the Collingswood Police Department, according to the mother of the boy who made the comment. The police officer spoke to the student, who is 9, said the boy's mother, Stacy dos Santos, and local authorities. Dos Santos said that the school overreacted and that her son made a comment about snacks, not skin color. "He said they were talking about brownies... Who exactly did he offend?" dos Santos said.

School Superintendent Scott Oswald said Thursday that Camden County prosecutors had demanded in a May meeting that the district report nearly every incident of student misbehavior to the police. "During that meeting, it was made abundantly clear by an assistant prosecutor that if we did not follow the directive, they would come after us with criminal charges, they'd come after our educational certifications," Oswald said.

Since that meeting, students as young as 7 have been reported to the police for incidents such as shoving in the lunch line or allegedly making a racist comment. Law enforcement officers make arrests. The natural states are indulged by crafting policies that turn mischief and misbehavior into low-level criminal activities - and it's all backed up by an implicit threat of prosecution targeting the district itself.

1.) The Freedom to Travel

The idea that human beings should be free to roam the earth without permission or threat is now dated. Prior to the 1930’s you needn’t have a driver’s license to operate a motor vehicle or carriage in America. Traveling without a passport used to be commonplace as well.

2.) The Right to be Self-Sustaining

Living off the grid is the ultimate example of personal responsibility, but as government needs dependents in order to be relevant, the type of rugged, ingenious mind that once made America remarkable is being stamped out in a fog of rules, regulations, permits, codes and trade agreements. For those interested in cultivating true independence by homesteading or setting up a little off-grid outpost somewhere, it is increasingly difficult and expensive to comply with the state. In some areas, people’s veggie gardens are being ripped up by over-zealous code enforcers, senior citizens are being fined thousands of dollars for not cutting their grass on time, individual rainwater collection is being prosecuted, and police are being called in to enforce mandatory connection to public utilities.

3.) Freedom of Speech

Supposedly one of the greatest rights bestowed upon Americans by the constitution, increasingly, the right to speak your mind is under duress, by government, corporate policy makers, and a changing social climate. Sure, since the ’80’s we’ve been trained to accept Free Speech Zones, where protestors could be shuffled out of sight and out of mind. Now, though, we’re entering an era of extreme political correctness and unabashed irrationality. People are increasingly unwilling to listen to what others have to say, and intolerance is being normalized under a cloak of phony diversity.

4.) The Right to Choose Your Own Medicine

Human beings have always had a symbiotic relationship with food and with plants, and medicine was always something taken directly from nature and combined with human intuition, wisdom and the intention to heal. The disruption of the balance between humans and nature, as initiated by consumer culture and corporate medicine, has taken a fundamental human right and is turning it into a privilege. If you alone do not own your body, then who owns your body?

On a similar note, the deputy commander of the Revolutionary Guards, Brigadier-General Hossein Salami, said on Friday “more than 100,000 missiles are ready to fly from Lebanon,” according to Tasnim. “Today, the grounds for the annihilation and collapse of the Zionist regime are [present] more than ever,” he declared, saying there are “tens of thousands of destructive long-range missiles” from Islamic territories aiming at all of “occupied” Israel.

“If the Zionists make a wrong move, all the occupied territories will come under attack from dedicated fighters and, God willing, the territories will be liberated,” Salami warned. On Friday, Rouhani accused Western powers of trying to exploit differences between the world’s Sunni and Shi’ite Muslims to divert attention from the Israel-Palestinian conflict, state television reported. “We stand with the dispossessed Palestinian nation,” he said.

With a client list including princes, celebrities and billionaires, the foundation offers owners protection against loss and grief with a cloning service that promises the perfect replacement for a beloved pet. Since 2006, the facility has cloned nearly 800 dogs, commissioned by owners or state agencies seeking to replicate their best sniffer and rescue dogs.

"These people have very a strong bond with their pets ... and cloning provides a psychological alternative to the traditional method of just letting the pet go and keeping their memory," said Wang Jae-Woong, a researcher and spokesman for Sooam. "With cloning, you have a chance to bring back the pets," he said in the facility's "care room" where each cloned puppy is kept in a glass-fronted, temperature-controlled pen and monitored by researchers around the clock.

The centre does not conduct any human stem cell research after being repeatedly denied a state approval to do so. But it is pushing a number of ambitious projects, most notably an effort to clone an extinct mammoth. Since 2012, Hwang's team has attempted to cultivate living cells from the frozen remains of mammoths in Siberia.

It is the latest in a string of worrying tales of Rio's polluted waters, which this weekend stained competitors boats brown as they practiced in Guanabara Bay ahead of the Games, which open in a month. It led one competitor to say it left her boat “looking like a toilet”. Waste from countless hospitals, in addition to hundreds of thousands of households, pours into storm drains, rivers and streams crisscrossing Rio, before reaching the ocean, allowing the bacteria to spread, Picao said.

“This bacteria colonizes the intestine and it goes along with feces to the hospital sewage,” Picao told CNN. “We believe that hospital sewage goes into municipal sewage and gets to the Guanabara Bay or to other rivers and finally gets to the beach.” She added that she did not take her own children to the beach, while a Paralympic sailor told the broadcaster he keeps his mouth and nose closed at all times to avoid swallowing any water whatsoever.

Those taking part in test events earlier this year had already complained of colliding with floating debris, with many others falling ill, leading to calls to clean up the vast expanse of water.

It would block the new Prime Minister from triggering Article 50 in the Lisbon Treaty, which begins Britain’s departure from the EU. The move would mean that the Government could not leave the EU quickly. One of the frontrunners for the Tory leadership, Andrea Leadsom, has said she wants to trigger Article 50 “as soon as possible”. If successful the legal bid could allow pro-Remain MPs to get together to block the result of the referendum with 52 per cent voting to end Brussels rule.

Labour MP David Lammy has already said he wants to ignore the democratic decision of British voters and block the result in Parliament. The challenge followed a demand by former Labour Prime Minister Tony Blair for there to be a second referendum on the final deal with the EU. Tory MEP David Campbell Bannerman, a leading figure in Vote Leave, said the legal challenge was a “disgrace”.

He said he believed that it would fail because the original European Communities Act 1972 allowed the Government to initiate changes to treaties with the EU, including departure. But he added: “This sort of attempt to subvert a clear democratic result is disgraceful. We saw from Tony Blair today and other interventions that there is now an attempt by Remain supporters to overturn this result."

Under the stewardship of Chancellor Angela Merkel, Europe’s largest economy has already ridden to the zenith of its post-World War II power. But the pending departure of the EU’s second-largest economy — Britain — could thrust an even bigger burden of leadership upon Germany.

Some Europeans remain leery of German power — the very energy the EU was designed as a harness to prevent Berlin’s re-emergence as the continent’s dominant force. But almost as many now worry that Germany will shrink from its leadership role, leaving a rudderless Europe drifting into political and economic limbo.

Germany’s stronger voice is emerging on the back of its massive economy, but also its stability, at a time when a host of nations find themselves mired in myriad crises or focusing inward. Yet no nation is more torn over its rise than Germany itself. Without Britain, a fellow defender of globalization and free trade, some observers are fretting over how and whether Germany will manage to turn the tide in Europe against more protectionist and inward-focused nations such as France and Italy.

And yet, when it comes to leading, the Germans may also have little choice. If Germany is Europe’s “decider,” it is not because it went after that role.

It has rarely felt this lonely at the center of Europe. With Britain leaving, Germany is losing an important partner within the European Union, as well as on foreign policy beyond it.

That is not to say that Britain was an easy partner in recent years. The mind reels at what Chancellor Angela Merkel of Germany, known for her cautious, step-by-step policies, must have thought of Prime Minister David Cameron tossing his country’s membership onto the gambling table in a bid to blackmail the European Union. Ms Merkel is a committed Europeanist; Mr Cameron called the union “too big, too bossy, too interfering.”

Germany cannot go it alone, and doesn’t want to. But without a strong partner to share the leadership, it has the unpalatable choice of letting power sit with a broad cast of unreliable partners, or creating a new inner circle. No one wants to give Law and Justice a seat at the table. But denying it will only strengthen national narcissisms in countries already troubled with euroskepticism, further splintering the Continent.

Which means that Germany may have to take command, after all. It’s a delicate task. But now that Germany finds itself on center stage, it might as well perform.

Many academic studies of same-sex families have arrived at the same conclusion. A new study finds that children with same-sex parents even had a slightly lower rate of depression in their mid-teens than their peers in general. But that, unfortunately, is the sole nugget of good news for the “no differences” theory in this study: by the age of 28 the same individuals were more than twice as likely (2.25 times) to suffer depression as the general run of their peers.

Why? Were there earlier experiences that could explain later onset depression? No-one had previously examined this relationship, says sociologist Paul Sullins of the Catholic University of America. “My new study tests whether this inattention is supportable.”

Sullins has previously analysed data for the younger children of same-sex parents, finding that they suffer twice as many emotional problems as do children with opposite-sex parents, and four times the emotional problems of children raised by their own joint biological parents. In another study he found that ADHD is also twice as common among these children.

In spite of most experts noting that Tylenol can be taken daily virtually free from danger, studies show that ingesting just a little bit more than the daily recommended dose of 4 grams of Tylenol over the course of a few days can result in severe illness and even death. Aside from liver damage, overdose, severe illness, and death — a new study shows acetaminophen to effectively kill human empathy.

Dr Dominik Mischkowski, the study’s first author, explains:

“These findings suggest other people’s pain doesn’t seem as big of a deal to you when you’ve taken acetaminophen. Acetaminophen can reduce empathy as well as serve as a painkiller.”

The ability to understand and share the feelings with other humans is a crucial part of peace. The golden rule itself is a function derived from empathy. Remove human empathy and you remove a driving force behind humans treating each other with respect and dignity.

According to the study:

As hypothesized, acetaminophen reduced empathy in response to others’ pain. Acetaminophen also reduced the unpleasantness of noise blasts delivered to the participant, which mediated acetaminophen’s effects on empathy. Together, these findings suggest that the physical painkiller acetaminophen reduces empathy for pain and provides a new perspective on the neurochemical bases of empathy. Because empathy regulates prosocial and antisocial behavior, these drug-induced reductions in empathy raise concerns about the broader social side effects of acetaminophen, which is taken by almost a quarter of adults in the United States each week.

The executive summary of the document reads:

“It is in the interests of our citizens to invest in the resilience of states and societies to the east stretching into Central Asia, and to the south down to Central Africa. Under the current EU enlargement policy, a credible accession process grounded in strict and fair conditionality is vital to enhance the resilience of countries in the Western Balkans and of Turkey. Under the European Neighbourhood Policy (ENP), many people wish to build closer relations with the Union: our enduring power of attraction can spur transformation in these countries.”

“The EU wants its own Empire as former Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso made clear when he was in charge,” UKIP’s defence spokesman Mike Hookem said. “This global strategy by the EU is yet another reason why last Thursday’s result was a lucky escape for the UK.”