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Sex robot creator: Popularity in sex dolls due to men's overuse of pornography

Anthony Blair
The Daily Star
Fri, 23 Feb 2018 17:34 UTC
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The boss of sex doll firm 1amdoll USA says that online porn has changed what men find sexy - and now prefer his robots to real women.

Speaking to journalist and author Jon Ronson on his podcast The Butterfly Effect, the boss - known only as Brent - said that sites like PornHub and RedTube have raised the bar on what is seen as attractive to the point that they don't find real women sexy anymore.

"Part of the success for our company has been the overuse of pornography," he said. "I've had a couple of customers who have said, 'I go to the bar and take a girl home at 3am and she's a little fatter than I'd like her to be or she's not as cute'.

"So they turn to the doll because the doll can be put in the position they want."
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Disturbing: Man spends 10 years modifying his body and tattooing his skin, inside of mouth and whites of his eyes black

Cait Kelly
Daily Mail Australia
Sat, 24 Feb 2018 17:16 UTC
Eli Ink

Eli Ink
Most people prefer their art on their walls not as a permanent fixture of their bodies. But Eli Ink, a 27-year-old tattoo artist from Brighton, England, sees his body as a walking exhibition of his finest work.

He has spent the last ten years transforming himself. Tattooing most of his skin black with several coats of ink, dying his eyes and implanting stretchers in his nose and under his bottom lip. The process is far from finished, but the result is striking.

Eli's obsession with body modification started from a young age after his uncle came back from Spain with a huge tribal tattoo.

'In my opinion, the only person who will only ever understand my transition properly is me. I don't attempt to describe it to anyone,' he told MailOnline.
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Here are all of the companies boycotting the NRA. Is it a good idea?

Chris Enloe
The Blaze
Sat, 24 Feb 2018 16:47 UTC
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A multitude of companies have severed ties with the NRA by bowing to mob outrage - and that's exactly why NRA members should boycott back.

In the days following the tragic shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, millions of Americans have placed blame on the National Rifle Association because the organization advocates for the Second Amendment and against firearm restrictions.

Now, companies who previously had relationships with the NRA are ending them after strong backlash from anti-NRA advocates who are placing pressure on the companies by threatening to boycott them if they don't comply.

What companies have severed ties with the NRA?

The list is long and continues to grow:
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Largest women's studies group in US hosts conference on 'post-capitalism' future of communism, socialism and anarchism

Toni Airaksinen
Campus Reform
Mon, 26 Feb 2018 16:49 UTC
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The nation's largest association of women's studies professors will host a conference dedicated to "socialist feminism" and "feminist scholarship" in November.

The National Women's Studies Association (NWSA) conference--"Imagining Justice: Feminist visions of freedom, dream making, and the radical politics of futures"--will take place at the Hilton Atlanta from November 8-11, where attendees will explore themes such as the "post-capitalist future" offered by socialism, anarchism, and communism.

"What are the alternatives to capitalist organization of society? What possibilities do socialism, anarchism, and communism offer?"

Founded in 1997, the NWSA boasts of more than 2,350 academic members and aims to promote a "just world" that is "free from ideologies, systems of privilege, or structures that oppress or exploit some for the advantage of others."


Comment: Feminists don't want to eliminate systems of privilege or ideologies. They just want to be the ones who control such things. They have created an imaginary world where all white men hold power, and are now using that illusion to justify using force and violence to put themselves in power.

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Israel ignores latest international outcry - will build 350 new settler units in occupied West Bank


Press TV
Sun, 25 Feb 2018 16:38 UTC
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© Agence France-Presse
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu arrives for the weekly cabinet meeting at his office in occupied Jerusalem al-Quds on February 25, 2018.
The Israeli cabinet has approved the construction of 350 new settler units in the occupied West Bank irrespective of an international outcry against the Tel Aviv regime's settlement expansion policies in Palestinian lands.

The units will be built at Netiv Ha'avot settlement, which is located south of the West Bank city of Bethlehem.

Addressing the cabinet ahead of its weekly meeting on Sunday, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu thanked Finance Minister Moshe Kahlon and other senior authorities for their efforts in earmarking the funds, which required corresponding cuts to various offices.
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Russian MP seeks further laws on sexual harassment and gender equality


RT
Tue, 27 Feb 2018 16:19 UTC
Oksana Pushkina
© Maksim Blinov / Sputnik
Oksana Pushkina, Deputy Chairperson of the Committee on Issues of Family, Women and Children, at a State Duma plenary session
The deputy head of the lower house committee for family affairs has promised to amend existing legislation targeting sex crime with a separate bill. Gender equality at work would be enforced and sexual harassment punished.

MP Oksana Pushkina (United Russia) told the RBC news site that in her view sexual harassment was very widespread in society and legislation did not match the level of the problem. She noted that the existing criminal code contains articles dealing with rape and 'coercion into sexual activities' though the latter is hardly ever applied. "Responsibility for sexual harassment is not regulated in any way. In most cases women who face sexual harassment remain silent," the lawmaker said, adding that the victims' only recourse is to quit their jobs.

Comment: Luckily some Russian MPs still have their sanity:
Russian legislation hardly needs legal clarification of the term "harassment," while flirting at work rarely turns into an "extreme" form of pressure on subordinates. This was stated by a deputy of the Committee of the Federation Council on Constitutional Legislation, Elena Afanasyeva.

Earlier, the State Duma was informed that they need to work out a legal definition for the term "harassment" and introduce it into legislation.

"You can not go overboard here, otherwise each flirtation will end with a lawsuit, and it's much more pleasant to look at smiling men and women than at those who will hide their eyes, fearing a court lawsuit," Afanasyeva told RIA Novosti.

According to the deputy, the problem of sexual harassment at work is sometimes exaggerated by society - for example, she herself has never encountered misconduct in 25 years of her work, although her bosses have always been men.

"Women who come to see me as a deputy sometimes tell me about such cases, but, as a rule, they speak of this as a feature of general male mentality (toward a group of women, for example), without experiencing any particular discomfort themselves," she said.

"In addition, one must know the mentality of Russian women - they will not be afraid to stand up for themselves if they consider that their rights are somehow violated," the committee's deputy chairman said.


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Kim Dotcom destroys Obama and Killary for bankrupting US of its civil liberties


The Gateway Pundit
Mon, 26 Feb 2018 16:33 UTC
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Kim Dotcom
On Sunday, Internet entrepreneur Kim Dotcom accused former president Barack Obama, ex-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and the Deep State of bankrupting the U.S. of its civil liberties.

"The deep state favored a Clinton presidency because CIA & NSA powers massively expanded under Democrat leadership. They had laxity and wanted to maintain the status quo. The first black President did more harm to your rights than any other President, and he did it with a smile," tweeted Dotcom.

"Only dumb people cheer for @BarackObama & @HillaryClinton. They have destroyed your liberty. You're living in a surveillance state with secret courts. Everything you do is recorded. The state knows everything about you. One day it will be used against you. Cheer some more, dummy," Dotcom added.
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French meat restaurant smashed-up in night attack by 'vegan terrorists'


RT
Mon, 26 Feb 2018 16:12 UTC
La Boucherie vandalism framce vegans
© France 3 Alpes
La Boucherie vandalism
A meat-focused restaurant in the in Alpine city of Grenoble, southeast France, has been trashed by a mystery vandal, with the words "Vegan Terror" left scrawled across it, local media reports.

The staff of the La Boucherie (The Butchery) restaurant in Grenoble woke up to an ugly sight on Monday morning, after the unknown saboteur went to work on the front of the building. Fourteen windows were smashed and the words "Vegan Terror" painted on with black letters. Police have described the suspect as masked, hooded and dressed in black, TV channel France 3 reports.

Comment: There is plenty of evidence that veganism and even vegetarianism can cause significant damage to physical and mental health. The incident above is a case in point.

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Argentinian police bust massive cocaine smuggling operation at Russian embassy

Tyler Durden
Zero Hedge
Mon, 26 Feb 2018 16:25 UTC
cocaine bust
Police in Argentina foiled a plot to smuggle cocaine of "maximum purity" from Argentina to Europe using the Russian embassy's diplomatic courier service. Five suspects were arrested in the scheme based out of the Russian embassy in Buenos Aires following a year-long sting which enlisted the assistance of a shadowy Russian spy chief.

Ensnared in the operation were an embassy accountant, an Argentine police officer, two Russian gang members, and a local Russian mechanic who transported the drugs.

Authorities discovered the plot in December 2016 after Russian ambassador Viktor Koronelli stumbled across 860 lbs. (389 kilos) of cocaine zipped inside 12 suitcases in a storage facility belonging to the diplomatic mission. Koronelli immediately informed Argentine authorities - who decided to keep the discovery secret while they set up an elaborate year-long sting.

After removing the cocaine worth roughly $61 million USD, and replacing it with flour, authorities placed tracking devices on the cases and conducted a joint monitoring operation with Russian authorities.
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Meet the 'Greatest Winter Olympian Ever': Norwegian skier Marit Bjorgen 'taking a stand' against Russian doping


Fort Russ
Mon, 11 Dec 2017 13:21 UTC

Comment: Norway's Marit Bjorgen won gold at the final event in the 2018 Winter Olympics, in the women's 30-kilometre cross-country skiing, blitzing the rest of the field in the process. It was her second gold medal at the games, and her fifth overall. It's all the more impressive because this is was her biggest-ever medals haul at the Olympics - she's 37 years old and this was her fifth winter Olympics. She is now the most successful winter Olympian of all time. Her victory took Norway's medals total to 39, and top of the table, a staggering result for a country of just 5 million people.

Thank goodness for clean athletes winning fairly...

But were they clean?

Even more incredibly, Norwegian athletes almost all suffer from chronic asthma, which makes their feats of endurance frankly Superhuman...

Marit Bjorgen
Meet Norwegian Skier Marit Bjorgen. Since 2009, she has been authorized under the western sanctioned TUE program, in which the US controlled IOC and WADA allows NATO countries and allies, to take steroids for asthma, for example.

Of course, these are steroids beyond Clenbuterol and more commonly Albuterol, which certainly are excellent fat reduction and muscle preservation agents. The use of these, however, would eliminate any Russian athlete for 'doping'.

But Clenbuterol and Albuterol are among common steroids prescribed for Asthma. A person with a more severe case of Asthma than Clenbuterol, for example, could help with, would be using such to barely 'get by'. So this raises some questions.

Comment: Further reading:

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