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Scientists predict rise of "digisexuals" as sexbots become more popular


RT
Sun, 26 Nov 2017 22:47 UTC
sexbots
© Anthony WALLACE / AFP
Academics are arguing that many people will soon be identifying as "digisexuals" and taking their sexual identity from having sex with robots.

While sex robots are currently quite primitive, a new report published in the Journal of Sexual and Relationship Therapy argues that before long they will be able to look, speak and act like real people - and will be specifically designed to fulfill a person's desires.

The report's authors, Neil McArthur and Markie L. C. Twist, from the University of Manitoba, Canada, argue that we need to be ready to deal with the phenomenon when it comes to fruition.

"There is no question, then, that sexbots are coming," McArthur and Twist say. "Our view is that they will represent a different sort of sexual experience from what existing technologies offer. First of all, people will form an intense connection with their robot companions."

"These robots will be tailor-made to meet people's desires, and will do things that human partners cannot or will not do. For this reason, significant numbers of people will likely come to use robots as their primary mode of sexual experience."

Comment: What could possibly go wrong? Bladerunner 2049, here we come...

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'Gender-neutral' French banned from government papers

Rory Mulholland
UK Telegraph
Fri, 24 Nov 2017 15:41 UTC
Whole foods gender neutral speech
French Prime Minister Edouard Philippe has ordered that so-called "inclusive writing" - an attempt to make French grammar more politically correct and gender neutral - must not be used in official government texts.

The ban was the latest twist in a bitter row over "écriture inclusive," which splits up words using a punctuation point called a middot, so that for example the plural word "amis" (friends) becomes "ami·e·s" and "citoyens" (citizens) becomes "citoyen·ne·s."

The new spellings include feminine forms rather than following the rule that plural masculine endings denote both women and men - a practice that the French ministry for gender equality has described as a form of sexual tyranny.

But the initiative has sparked fury among linguistic purists, with the Académie Française, the gatekeeper of the French language, arguing that it poses a "mortal danger" to the purity of French.

The Prime Minister has now come down on the side of the purists, banning "inclusive writing" from official publications.

Comment: An unusual moment of clarity there from the French government that has, in the past, furiously promoted all things post-modern.

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"#MeToo" aftermath list: All the men accused of multiple degrees of sexual misconduct


USA Today
Fri, 24 Nov 2017 21:12 UTC
#MeToo, sexual harassment
© Lucy Nicholson / Reuters
Since the allegations of sexual abuse by Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein surfaced on Oct. 5, women have been stepping forward to publicly share their stories of sexual misconduct.

Although many of the accusations originally focused on Hollywood, men across industries including tech, business, politics and media are facing consequences for claims ranging from sexual harassment to rape.

Below is a list (organized alphabetically) of powerful men who have been accused since the Weinstein scandal broke:

Comment: Note the range of "offences" - from relatively benign to criminal. Yet all get lumped together - they're all on the same list, after all. Or perhaps bad "pick-up" attempts are now equivalent to violent rape? If so, the future is looking bleak.

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Fourth survivor of the Las Vegas shooting massacre dies of unrelated causes

Deniz Kofteci
Circa
Sat, 25 Nov 2017 20:51 UTC
Roy McClellan
© Facebook
Roy McClellan, 52, was killed Nov. 17 when he was struck by a Chevrolet Camaro in Pahrump, about 60 miles west of Las Vegas.
A man who survived the mass shooting in Las Vegas on October 1st was killed by a hit-and-run driver in Nevada on November 17. He is the fourth survivor to die since the shooting massacre at the Route 91 Harvest Music Festival.

Roy McClellan's widow, Denise, was with him during the shooting.

"It was just ear-piercing. I was like oh my gosh, what is that noise? This is horrible," she told our affiliate KSNV news.

She says her and her husband ran for their lives but even as bullets rained down around them, her husband Roy stopped to help people along the way.

She says her husband had been in therapy since the shooting. "It was really messing with his head and he was going to therapy," she said.

"This isn't what I wanted for him. I don't understand why he wasn't taken at the shooting, but a month later he was taken this way," said McClellan. "I hope my husband found peace and he's safe now."
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Eye 1

Dozens of law enforcement agencies are using Stingray technology to track suspects without a warrant


RT
Sun, 26 Nov 2017 20:42 UTC
police camera room
© Lucas Jackson/Reuters
Dozens of police departments across the US are using special devices to track suspects without warrants. However, the International Mobile Subscriber Identity (IMSI) catchers also capture data from regular people on the street.

The technology, which was developed for the military, mimics cell phone towers and tricks phones into routing signals through them. This allows police to a track suspect's location. The machines even allow police to get the location of a phone without the user making a call or sending a text. The most common of these devices is called a "StingRay."

Such devices can also collect the phone numbers a person has been calling and texting and even intercept the content of communications.

At least 72 state and local law enforcement departments in 24 states and 13 federal agencies use the devices, according to a new report from AP. The report notes that further details are hard to come by because the departments that use IMSI catchers must take the unusual step of signing non-disclosure agreements overseen by the FBI.

Comment: See also:

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Stop

Ridiculous! YouTube censors Christian videos because content describes and supports values of Russian Faith

David Curry
Russia Insider
Mon, 20 Nov 2017 00:00 UTC
Really YouTube?

Really YouTube?
Two weeks ago, I was summarily informed in a brief email from YouTube that our Russian Faith channel-on which we had spent hundreds of hours of hard work and which complements the Russian Faith website, which I own, had been 'terminated.' No reason was given other than a very general one which could mean anything.

Russian Faith is a new media project I started in September: a website, YouTube channel (now banned), Facebook, and Twitter - to cover Christian issues in general, and the huge story of the renaissance of Christianity in Russia.

This dramatic turn by both government and society in Russia is very important not just for Christians, but for the whole world, regardless of their religious views, because it has so many ramifications important to us Americans.

It should affect our foreign policy, and it contrasts with the hostility to Christian values in our own Western societies. It is a fact that Russia has emerged as the leading defender of world Christianity, and it is a disgrace that liberal forces in the US elites and the government are among Christianity's most hostile foes - both at home and abroad.

Comment: How symbolic that a website named Russian Faith has been so needlessly and egregiously attacked in this way. But it also fits the 'Big Picture'. And that 'Big Picture' is to drag down, demonize and undermine anything and anyone who would seek to have Russia succeed as a nation and as a people - on nearly every level - and in whatever way it can.

But here's the thing: Every time we see one of these attacks, more and more people get to see and know for themselves just how biased, irrational and pathological this impetus towards Russia's destabilization actually is.

See:

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Treasure Chest

Trove of metal objects removed from Indian man's stomach


RT
Sun, 26 Nov 2017 17:06 UTC
Nails
© imagebroker / Simon Belcher / Global Look Press
Ever felt hungry so much you'd eat a nail or a coin? One Indian man definitely did, as astonished surgeons discovered around seven kilograms of inedible metal items inside his abdomen after he complained of a stomach-ache.

Having suffered from stomach pains for three months, the 35-year-old man had been admitted to the Satna hospital in the Indian state of Mathya Pradesh, as the Independent reports. Doctors first suspected food poisoning until carrying out an endoscopy - only to discover a trove of metal objects inside.

Named as Maksud Khan, the man reportedly gulped down hundreds of coins, 1.5 kg of nails, shaving blades, glass shards, stones and a 15-centimeter piece of rusted iron shackle. "We were shocked to discover coins, nails and nut-bolts in his stomach. We come across such a case for the first time in our career," said Dr Priyank Sharma, who led the surgical team, which removed a total of seven kilograms of assorted junk.
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Eye 1

Human trafficking, 'the new crack cocaine,' says Santa Cruz Police Chief

Michael Todd
Santa Cruz Sentinel
Wed, 15 Nov 2017 07:55 UTC
Human trafficking
Most are adults and about 30 percent of Santa Cruz County's human trafficking victims are commanded by female traffickers.

"It's the new crack cocaine," Santa Cruz Police Chief Andy Mills said Wednesday morning to police officers and badged supervisors at the police department's community room. "Except with trafficking, you can sell it over and over."

Every officer raised a hand when asked whether he or she has responded to a sexual-assault case. The cases, too often, lack information, one officer said. Those missing details are common in human trafficking, which includes sexual assault, domestic violence, kidnapping, abuse and other crimes involving victims too vulnerable, or too traumatized, to report their situation. The training, part of a twice-monthly program at the department, was designed to teach officers how to identify the subtle signs of human trafficking - holding a person by means of force, fraud and coercion.

The FBI has identified the San Francisco Bay Area, including Santa Cruz and Monterey counties, as one of the three highest-intensity child sex trafficking regions in the country.
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Cult

China: Sexual abuse of children in franchise-run kindergarten under investigation - UPDATE


RT
Fri, 24 Nov 2017 15:07 UTC
Childsilhouette
© Deccan Chronicle
A Chinese kindergarten run by a US-listed group is under investigation after claims of sexual molestation and needle marks on children. Parents say their children were stripped naked, given unknown "white pills" and "brown syrup".

The scandal broke out at the nursery in Beijing's eastern suburb of Guanzhuang. The incidents were reported in two groups; each had some 25 children aged from 2 to 6. The kindergarten is run by RYB Education Institution, which is currently listed on the New York Stock Exchange.

Several parents found needle marks on her children's bodies, Caixin media group, which initially reported the story, said on Thursday. Medical examination of eight children confirmed that the injuries were indeed caused by needles, Guanzhuang police later said.

Apart from needles, children were given "white tablets and a brown syrup," a group of parents who staged a protest outside the nursery, told Caixin, adding that they had no idea what these substances were. "Disobedient students were also forced to stand naked or were locked up in a dark room at the kindergarten," one parent said.

Comment: RYB (Red, Yellow and Blue) Education (NYSE:RYB), a Chinese company that provides early childhood education for children aged 0-6, had just debuted on NYSE two months ago. They operate 80 direct and 175 franchise kindergartens in China.

Update: November 26, 2017

More from Disobedient Media:
Former Clinton Foundation Executive Tied To Chinese Kindergarten Abuse Scandal

The Clinton Foundation is no stranger to scandal. However, the charity is facing renewed criticism after it was revealed that one of the foundation's former executives, Joel Getz, was also an Independent Director at RYB Education. RYB Education is the parent company of a Beijing kindergarten at the center of a massive scandal in China that emerged in the wake of allegations toddlers were being injected with drugs and possibly sexually abused. [...]

Joel Getz is shown in a document published by Reuters to have been an independent Director at RYB Education, in addition to his former role at the Clinton Foundation and his work for Yale as Senior Associate Dean for Development and Alumni Relations.

The Gateway Pundit wrote: "It is important to note that in no way are former President Bill Clinton or his wife Hillary Clinton involved with RYB Education or this scandal. Nonetheless the story is notable, not only because the alleged crimes are so horrific, but also because it raises questions about the judgement of the Clintons as to who they have employed in important roles at their foundation."
"Mr. Getz was instrumental in creating a formal development operation for the Clinton Foundation, which raised in excess of $135 million annually," says his Yale bio.

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Attention

From movement to Act: Femicrats introduce 'ME TOO Congress' bill to overhaul sexual harassment policies

Cristina Marcos
The Hill
Wed, 15 Nov 2017 17:55 UTC
Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand

Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand
A pair of female Democratic lawmakers introduced legislation on Wednesday that would overhaul policies to combat and report complaints of sexual harassment on Capitol Hill.

The Member and Employee Training and Oversight On Congress Act (ME TOO Congress) Act, authored by Rep. Jackie Speier (D-Calif.) and Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.), would require sexual harassment awareness training and reform the process available for staffers to file complaints.

Comment: Stay tuned for what becomes of this. Also see:
Taxpayers have been footing bill for sexual assault cases in Congress since 1995

Legislation introduced in the past with good intentions that have gone off the rails:
The VAWA, The Duluth Model, Feminism and the politicization of domestic violence
The war for tax dollars and the Violence Against Women Act

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