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Legal?: London 'fellatio café to offer coffee and oral sex - Geneva too

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London could soon host its first ever 'fellatio café' for punters seeking oral pleasure with their morning coffee. If the business manages to overcome all the legal barriers to opening, the café will offer customers a selection of coffees, along with oral sex performed by an escort.

Founder Bradley Charvet said he plans to establish a branch of the coffee shop in Paddington, London. Charvet told the Evening Standard he is confident the business will go ahead. "We are happy this will be a legal business in the UK, which is nice because it will be organized and controlled. "We need to fix some details to avoid trouble. It's on the way." A cheap coffee and extra services will set you back £50 (US$66).

Europe's first fellatio café is due to launch in Geneva on December 5, 2016. The café is modeled on similar businesses in Thailand, such as Dr. BJ's Salon in Bangkok.

Comment: Switch to tea?

Update (Nov. 3): Charvet is still trying to go forward with this idea, but with sex robots instead of humans if his plans are blocked by Swiss laws:
Originally, the sex cafe was due to open by the end of this year but its plans have been disrupted by opposition from the commercial sector, according to Charvet.

Charvet says he wanted to create an establishment inspired by Thailand's sex tourism industry where the customer would order a coffee and use an ipad to select a sex worker to perform oral sex.

While prostitution is legal in Switzerland, paid-for sexual services are banned in public establishments under catering legislation, a spokesperson from the Department of Security and Economy told Le Matin.

Charvet is now looking toward sexbots to salvage his sex cafe plans and has begun talks with a US firm that manufactures lifelike robot-women for up to US$3,000.

An application for the sex cafe has yet to be filed with relevant authorities but if approval is granted for the fellatio cafe, it will provide up to eight robots to service customers for 60 Swiss francs ($62) a pop.
Western civilization is spiraling down at an ever-increasing rate...


Red Flag

Child obesity in UK rises to almost 20%

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The number of obese 10- and 11-year-olds rose by 0.7 percent in the last year, according to the National Child Measurement Programme (NCMP). Overall, more than a third of the age group were deemed overweight based on their body mass index (BMI).

Obesity for children in the United Kingdom has reached 19.8% for 10 and 11-year-olds and numbers of obese four- and five-year-olds have also increased, the National Health Service revealed on Thursday.

The number of obese 10- and 11-year-olds rose by 0.7 percent in the last year, according to the National Child Measurement Programme (NCMP). Overall, more than a third of the age group were deemed overweight based on their body mass index (BMI).

Heart - Black

Police say mom killed son, texted video of dead child to father

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Police say Christian Clark, charged with criminal homicide in the death of her 17-month-old son Andre Price III, sent a video of the boy’s apparently lifeless body to his father in a jealous, vengeful rage during a text-messaged argument that lasted more than two hours.
A woman jailed on charges she killed her toddler son sent a video of the boy's apparently lifeless body to his father in a jealous, vengeful rage during a text-messaged argument that lasted more than two hours, police said in a criminal complaint.

Christian Clark, 21, of McKeesport, was jailed without bond after being arraigned on charges of criminal homicide in the death of 17-month-old Andre Price III and attempted homicide of his 2-year-old sister, Angel. Clark doesn't have an attorney listed in online court records.

Allegheny County homicide detectives say Clark was arguing with the boy's father, Andre Price Jr., when she started sending increasingly violent text messages beginning about 9 p.m. Tuesday. The complaint indicated Clark was upset at having to clean up toilet water the children spilled but mostly because Price had left for work earlier in the day and Clark believed he planned to have sex with another woman.

"Ya kids ain't safe here I don't want them here" and "Answer me or im going to jail for child endangerment" were two of the dozens of texts listed in the criminal complaint. Then came a message at 10:01 p.m. that said, "I'm killing them" — followed by a laughing emoji with tears coming from its eyes, police said.

Newspaper

European journalists' union speaks up for RT: 'UK's censorship and harassment are no solution'

RT UK studio
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The General Secretary of the European Federation of Journalists (EFJ) has chastised the UK government for its treatment of RT, in relation to state-owned British bank NatWest's decision to close its accounts.

"RT was not treated in a normal way. In normal relations between a bank and a customer this is not what happens, and it is not something an ordinary customer would accept. So, I think the way that the company was treated is questionable," Ricardo Gutierrez, who heads an organization that counts over 320,000 journalists across the continent as its members, told RT via video link.

EFJ together with two more NGOs (Article 19 and Index) posted a public alert, warning of a "chilling effects on media freedom," shortly after NatWest issued a notice last month that it was shutting down RT's UK bureau's bank accounts from December onward, with no explanation or discussion. After the incident was publicized across the media, the bank vowed to "review" the decision, and no final decision has been announced.

Hardhat

Recent Oklahoma earthquakes may finally induce regulators to restrict fracking

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A 4.5 magnitude earthquake that struck northern Oklahoma may have shaken some sense into lawmakers considering increasing restrictions on some oil and gas activity in the state.

Oklahoma's recent increase in earthquakes has some lawmakers concerned about the possible connection to oil and gas production and the subsequent disposal of underground wastewater. While there was no reported damage from Tuesday's 4.5 magnitude earthquake, a 5.6 earthquake in September set a record for the state and has some residents calling for change.

The Oklahoma Corporation Commission plans a response to Tuesday's earthquake while some state regulators are considering placing new restrictions on oil and gas activity, the Associated Press reported.

However, the Pawnee Nation is not holding its breath for regulators to solve the earthquake problem. In late October, the Pawnee Nation announced its plans to take energy companies New Dominion, Sandridge Exploration and Production, Chesapeake Operating and Devon Energy Production Company to court, the Stillwater News Press reported.

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Eye 2

Obama considering ways to reroute Dakota Access Pipeline after months of protests

ND pipeline
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President Barack Obama has said the US Army Corps of Engineers is considering ways of rerouting the Dakota Access Pipeline amid an eight-month-long protest staged by the Standing Rock Sioux tribe.

The Standing Rock Sioux are protesting the pipeline's route due to the potential threats it poses to drinking water supplies and sacred sites. Their cause has attracted millions of dollars in support.

"My view is that there is a way for us to accommodate sacred lands of Native Americans, and I think that right now the Army Corps is examining whether there are ways to reroute this pipeline," Obama told news website NowThis on Tuesday.

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  • Public servants or corporate security?: An open letter to law enforcement and National Guard in North Dakota



Airplane

Investigation gives more information on final moments of Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370

Candle-lit vigil MH370
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A candlelight vigil in Zhuji, China, on March 10, 2014, for the passengers on board Malaysia Airlines flight MH370.
When Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 mysteriously disappeared shortly after takeoff in March 2014, there was probably no one at the aircraft's controls when it crashed, a new analysis suggests.

Satellite data contradicts recent claims that pilots were able to steer the aircraft during its final minutes of flight, right before it plunged into the ocean, Time.com reported.

According to a statement released Wednesday (Nov. 2) by the Australian Transport Safety Bureau (ATSB), which is leading the search-and-recovery mission for the missing flight, models of the plane's final trajectory and evidence from wreckage linked to the missing flight show that preparations were not made for a controlled ditch, an emergency water landing under a pilot's guidance.


Comment: Based on the data that shows no preparation for landing, it is strange to conclude that there were no pilots at the controls. Coming up with an explanation of why there were no pilots at the controls takes a lot more mental gymnastics than just the assumption that something catastrophic happened to the plane whilst in the air.

There are many explanations that could account for the data, ranging from more and more common dangerous atmospheric phenomena to terrorism.


Comment: It would be easy for the PTB to explain what happen to MH370 as a terrorist bombing and have the CIA release a statement from a terrorist group claiming responsibility. Such practices usually happen when the PTB actually had a hand in what happened and time to prepare to break the story and manage perceptions of the event, though - which suggests that something much more anomalous happened.


Ambulance

18 dead and dozens injured as trains collide in Karachi

Rescuers workers use heavy machinery on the car of a train
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Rescuers workers use heavy machinery on the car of a train
At least 18 people were killed and more than 40 injured when two passenger trains collided Thursday morning near Karachi's Landi Railway Station, hospital officials said.

Witnesses described watching in horror as Zakaria Express from Multan rammed into Fareed Express from Lahore, which was parked there, with the roar of the crash swiftly followed by the screams of people trapped inside.

Railway officials gave green signal to the train coming from behind by mistake, and it went on to hit the train at rest, said Adviser to Sindh Chief Minister on Labour Senator Saeed Ghani.

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Stormtrooper

Public servants or corporate security?: An open letter to law enforcement and National Guard in North Dakota

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A row of law-enforcement officers faces Dakota Access pipeline protesters along North Dakota Highway 6, south of St. Anthony, North Dakota, on October 10, 2016.
So you joined law enforcement or the National Guard because you wanted to uphold the law, protect innocent civilians against the bad guys, and help your community in times of need. Instead, they're having you blockade unarmed people who are trying to hold a prayer vigil, chasing them with armored vehicles and ATVs, raiding their tipis and sweat lodges at gunpoint, and shooting them (and their horses) with pepper spray, concussion grenades, tasers, and rubber bullets. You thought you'd be the cop on the beat or the citizen soldier, and they've made you into the cavalry riding in with Custer.

If you signed up for the National Guard, you swore a solemn oath to "support and defend the Constitution of the United States...against all enemies, foreign and domestic." This is a good time to read the text of that Constitution, including the First Amendment that prohibits abridging the free exercise of religion, or "the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances." Article Six of the Constitution defines "all Treaties made" (including those with Native nations) as "the supreme Law of the Land."

Comment: Sigh! Unfortunately it is likely falling on deaf ears....these thugs have no conscience.


USA

U.S. militia groups prepare for trouble as presidential election nears

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Down a Georgia country road, camouflaged members of the Three Percent Security Force have mobilized for rifle practice, hand-to-hand combat training -- and an impromptu campaign rally for Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump.

"How many people are voting for Trump? Ooh-rah!" asks Chris Hill, a paralegal who goes by the code name "Bloodagent."

"Ooh-rah!" shout a dozen militia members in response, as morning sunlight sifted through the trees last weekend.

As the most divisive presidential election in recent memory nears its conclusion, some armed militia groups are preparing for the possibility of a stolen election on Nov. 8 and civil unrest in the days following a victory by Democrat Hillary Clinton.

They say they won't fire the first shot, but they're not planning to leave their guns at home, either.

Comment: Unfortunately, even if Trump wins, it is quite likely that these same individuals will some day feel compelled to bear arms then - because whoever wins, the US 'deep state' sets the policies - not the president.