This is how it begins. He asks me to stand before him in my lace underwear, high heels, hose and bra. He sits in a chair and watches closely as I disrobe, making approving noises, even winking to put me at ease. “Turn around please,” he says and then, “Yes, right there. Stop there.” Even though we’ve been married for over three years, I’ve never done anything like this sober. I don’t know what to do, or where to put my hands. Without the buzz and fog of alcohol, I am clumsy and giggly and awkward.He handcuffs me to the bed, and whispers into my ear, “I’m going to take you now because you’re my woman. All mine. Do you understand?”I nod, at once turned on and slightly uncomfortable. We’ve played these games before, dirty secretary (me on my knees), inappropriate masseur (him touching my inner thigh and entering me with his oil-covered fingers) and sex slave (submission and punishment) but always with a few drinks sitting warm in my stomach keeping me safely removed from consciousness and with a pleasant numbness. This time, when the game is over, I start crying, full of sensitive tender feelings and fear that I don’t really know how to have sex, much less make love, sober.Continue Reading… … Read More
Siege of Bani Walid: Foreign fighters, phosphorus bombs and nerve gas – RT sources
The besieged Libyan city
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of Bani Walid has been plunged into chaos. Several sources told RT the former Gaddafi regime stronghold is under attack by militias bolstered by foreign mercenaries, and they used banned weapons like white phosphorous.The sources denied reports of the last few days that Bani Walid was retaken by the Libyan government. Residents said that militia forces have continued their assault, while preventing the refugees who fled from reentering the city. A man who claimed his relatives are trapped inside the besieged city spoke with RT, saying, “There is no food; there is nothing to support the life of people. And the militia does not allow anyone to come back to their homes.”“They are demolishing homes with machinery and tanks. There is no communication or internet so people are not able to connect with each other,” the source said. He is currently in Egypt, and refuses to reveal his identity over fears of personal safety.He believes the real reason for the inoperable communications is that many people have been killed inside Bani Walid by the forces besieging the city and now they are trying to prevent information about the killings to be leaked outside. The militia attackers have claimed they are battling ‘pro-Gaddafi’ forces, but the source slammed that motive as a “lie and a dirty game.”“They use foreign snipers, I think from Qatar or Turkey, with Qatar covering all the costs,” he said. He claimed that a ship with weapons and other equipment recently docked in the port city of Misrata, where the assault on Bani Walid is allegedly being directed.“There is no government in Libya. Groups of militia control everything. They don’t care about Libya, they don’t care about the nation,” he said, adding allegations that the majority of militia fighters have dual citizenship or passports from other countries.“We ask the envoy [Special Representative] of the Secretary-General of the United Nations [for Libya] Mr. Tarik Mitri – where is he now?” he said. “Where is the United Nations? Where is the EU? Where is the Human Rights Watch? We ask for an intervention now as soon as possible – please!”In an October 23 UN session, the US blocked a statement on the violence in Bani Walid drafted by Russia, which condemned the ongoing conflict in the city and calling for a peaceful resolution. RT Photo from Bani Walid. RT source. The photo could not be independently verified.Witnesses claim militia used chemical weapons in Bani Walid“I can confirm that pro-government militias used internationally prohibited weapons. They used phosphorus bombs and nerve gas. We have documented all this in videos, we recorded the missiles they used and the white phosphorus raining down from these missiles,” Bani Walid-based activist and lawyer Afaf Yusef told RT.“Many people died without being wounded or shot, they died as a result of gases. The whole world needs to see who they are targeting. Are they really Gaddafi’s men? Are the children, women and old men killed – Gaddafi’s men?” Yusef said.The forces attacking Bani Walid have been ordered to use “all means necessary” in their assault on the city, RT’s Paula Slier reported.“To all parasites and leaches, a message to all of them across Libya, wherever they are: Whoever you are, however strong you are, and whoever your back is – the revolution should win,” a militant said i
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n the TV report.RT Photo from Bani Walid. RT source. The photo could not be independently verified.Looming humanitarian catastrophe in Bani WalidThe humanitarian situation outside Bani Walid is reportedly nearly as dire as that within the besieged city. Those who managed to flee the violence now find themselves stranded on the desert roads outside the city.Thousands of Bani Walid residents have reportedly tried to reenter the city, but were stopped at makeshift militia checkpoints composed of pickup trucks armed with mounted machine-guns.“Look at the people over there, they got a gun and they’re shooting at people with it,” a Bani Walid resident said, pointing in the direction of a checkpoint. He claimed that those who fled the city had been forced to stay in the desert for more than a week.“Where is the government?” he said.Photo from Bani Walid. RT source. The photo could not be independently verified.Photo from Bani Walid. RT source. The photo could not be independently verified. … Read More
Drunk Swede runs over cop in Segway getaway
An inebriated man is suspected of drink driving and assault after running over a Malm police officer while fleeing arrest on his Segway, according to a report in the Dagens Nyheter daily.Swedes to face Thai court over knife killing (27 Oct 12)
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The man approached the Crown Nightclub on Amiralsgatan in central Malm in the early hours of Thursday and attempted to access the premises.As the club was closed for the evening he was left banging in frustration on the door. He is also reported to have emptied a refuse container with glass bottles outside the entrance.The commotion attracted attention and the police were called, arriving in the form of two plain clothes officers on bicycles.According to a local police spokesperson when the drunk man saw the police officers he jumped onto a Segway and rammed one of the police officers, running over him.”He is suspected of assaulting a police officer and violently resisting arrest for having driven over a police officers with a Segway,” said Anders Lindell at Malm police to the newspaper.”It hurt,” Lindell added.The low-speed Segway assault left the police officer nursing bruises and is reported to have evaded serious injury.The man is furthermore suspected of theft as he was unable to identify the owner of the two-wheeled battery-driven people carrier. … Read More
Rumor Roundup: Leaking to TechCrunch Will Cost You, Frankenstorm.gov, and the Great Kanye Hunt Continues
Nice flowers, Mr. Constine. (Photo: Business Insider)
Facebook Fiasco Claims Another Scalp Remember that time Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein kept the name of their Watergate informant a secret for decades, thereby providing generations of teenagers an excuse to say “deep throat” in high school classrooms? Good thing no one had email at the time!
According to Business Insider, Citigroup tech analyst Mark Mahaney was recently given the boot. Turns out that one of Mr. Mahaney’s underlings was getting a little too comfy with the press. Looking into the Facebook IPO, Massachusetts investigators stumbled across an email from a junior analyst to two TechCrunch reporters that read, in part, “I am ramping up coverage on FB and thought you guys might like to see how the street is thinking about it (and our estimates).” That little communique got Citigroup slapped with a $2 million fine, and that is why one confines all illicit activities, from sexting to whistle-blowing, to one’s personal email account.
A bit of footwork on the part of BI suggests the junior analyst was Eric Jacobs, and the recipients were John Constine and Kim-Mai Cutler. As former Stanford University classmates, Mr. Jacobs and Mr. Constine go way back. A photo of the pair was even, for a time, Mr. Constine’s profile pic on Facebook.
Find the Yeezy! The Great Kanye Hunt of 2012 continues! Back in September, Betabeat first heard the drumbeat come from General Assembly’s east campus at 902 Broadway: Yeezy is here! And he’s meeting with a startup. A source mentioned IDEO, the global design and innovation consulting firm, which has an outpost in New York. That would make sense, considering that DONDA, Mr. West’s collective of “creatives and developers,” is at work on a line of products. However, we’ve been told we’re barking up the wrong tree. One tech company down, 99,999 to go. If you have any information about the identity of this lucky startup, please contact the authorities/Betabeat immediately.
Tea Time at Twitter Fortune reporter Jessi Hempel was visiting a mystery startup in the Bay Area when she sent the following Instagram dispatch: “guess the tech company: kombucha on tap,” she tweeted, along with a photo of four different flavors of the stinky tea on tap. TechCrunch reporter Ryan Lawler immediately wondered if it was Square, the mobile payment service known for the highbrow tastes of its dapper CEO, Jack Dorsey. Ms. Hempel replied, “nope. But not far off.” When Betabeat then guessed Twitter, she confirmed it with a “favorite.” Is kombucha the new Mountain Dew?
(Photo: Jessi Hempel, Twitter)
We were still disappointed to discover, however, that the answer was not Diapers.com.
Frankenstorm Is Chartbeating! Amid the preparations for Hurricane Sandy, a.k.a the extra-perfect storm currently barreling toward New New York’s shores, Mayor Bloomberg just couldn’t resist a little plug for the city’s snazzy digital initiatives.
During a press conference earlier today, Mayor Bloomberg reminded everyone that this is an unpredictable storm and we should all therefore stay attentive to weather forecasts. Among our options are both “one of the weather services on the Internet” and the city’s own NYC.gov. Then came the traffic trumpeting: “During Hurricane Irene, NYC.gov, you should know, had 4.3 million hits, shattering its previous high of 2.2 million.” He added, “We have added additional capacity to NYC.gov to keep up with the increase in traffic volume, and we have streamlined the website to make sure it provides the most up to date information to New Yorkers.”
So if walk outside Monday night and you’re surprised by the terrible weather, don’t blame Mayor Bloomberg. … Read More
Jailbreaking smartphones remains legal. Tablets? Not so much.
The U.S. Copyright Office has performed its triennial review of exceptions to the DMCA (Digital Millennium Copyright Act). Officials have most notably determined jailbreaking smartphones (but not tablets) remains legal, unlocking phones is legal — but only with your carrier's blessings — and copying DVDs is still not covered under… … Read More
Doctors remove 28-kilo tumor from German woman previously diagnosed ‘obese’
BERLIN: Doctors in Germany said on Friday they had removed a tumour weighing 28 kilogrammes from a 60-year-old woman who had previously been diagnosed as obese. A spokesman from the university clinic in the eastern city of Dresden said the woman, Irmtraud Eichler, had made a full recovery after the…




