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Eye 2

Man charged with sexually abusing 12 girls in his home allegedly groomed and brainwashed them to believe he was cult-like figure


Yahoo
Tue, 01 Nov 2016 16:57 UTC
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Lee Kaplan, R, with alleged parents of female victims Daniel (L) and Savilla (C) Stoltzfus
While Lee Kaplan lived with 12 girls in his Pennsylvania home, authorities say, he allegedly brainwashed them to believe he was a prophet of God — grooming several of them for sex and calling six of them his "wives."

Prosecutors this week revealed these and other harrowing details of the girls' years of alleged mental and sexual abuse, as the investigation of Kaplan continues and he faces multiplying charges.

"This guy set up a virtual feeding ground of victims," Bucks County District Attorney Matthew Weintraub tells People. "He preyed upon one by one."

Kaplan, who was charged with sex crimes after police rescued the girls from his home in June, is now accused of not only fathering two children with the eldest of the girls but also sexually abusing five of her younger sisters, Weintraub announced on Monday.

That same day Kaplan pleaded not guilty to more than a dozen new charges, including rape of a child, involuntary deviate sexual intercourse and indecent assault, Weintraub says.

"He took these children into his home not too far from where we stand here today," Weintraub alleged at a news conference. "Over time he played on their trust and affection for him. He groomed them to believed that he was a religious, cult-like figure for whom they should submit their will."

Comment: See also: Twelve girls found in home of Pennsylvania man -- the oldest sold by her parents

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Eye 1

Canadian journalists stunned to learn police spied on them through cellphone


RT
Thu, 03 Nov 2016 16:41 UTC
RCI transmitter station
© Verne Equinox / WikipediaRCI transmitter station outside Sackville, New Brunswick
Canadian police have been tracking the cellphones of six investigative journalists, treating them as suspects, media and police officials said. The scandal comes a day after reports emerged revealing that police had also been spying on another journalist.

Marie-Maude Denis and Isabelle Richer, the hosts of the Enquête (Investigation) program, and the show's former host, Alain Gravel, all confirmed on Twitter that they had been spied on, claiming that the Sûreté du Québec (SQ), also known as the Quebec Provincial Police, had tracked their phones.

"I've just learned that my incoming and outgoing calls have been spied on by the Sûreté du Québec in 2013," Denis wrote on Twitter, while Gravel tweeted: "My turn to get a confirmation that I was targeted by court mandates to obtain a log of my calls by the SQ."

Police also hacked Eric Thibault from Journal de Montreal, Denis Lessard, from La Presse, and crime journalist André Cédilot, Canadian media reported.
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Coffee

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


RT
Thu, 04 Aug 2016 12:19 UTC
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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...

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Red Flag

Child obesity in UK rises to almost 20%


Sputnik
Thu, 03 Nov 2016 15:48 UTC
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© Flickr/ Joe 13
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).
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Heart - Black

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

Joe Mendak
NBC News
Thu, 03 Nov 2016 16:20 UTC
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© Allegheny County Police Department/Associated PressPolice 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.
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European journalists' union speaks up for RT: 'UK's censorship and harassment are no solution'


RT
Thu, 03 Nov 2016 14:44 UTC
RT UK studio
© RT
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.
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Hardhat

Recent Oklahoma earthquakes may finally induce regulators to restrict fracking


RT
Wed, 02 Nov 2016 23:56 UTC
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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


RT
Wed, 02 Nov 2016 19:41 UTC
ND pipeline
© Lucy Nicholson / Reuters
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.

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

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Airplane

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

Mindy Weisberger
Live Science
Thu, 03 Nov 2016 10:11 UTC
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© VCG/Getty ImagesA 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.

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Ambulance

18 dead and dozens injured as trains collide in Karachi

Asim Khan / Raza Jafferi
Dawn
Thu, 03 Nov 2016 10:23 UTC
Rescuers workers use heavy machinery on the car of a train
© ReutersRescuers 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.

Comment: See also:

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