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SOTT Focus: The Strange Saga of Lindsay Shepherd: From Inquisition to Exoneration, But The Crime of Being White Remains

Timothy C. Trepanier
Sott.net
Wed, 20 Dec 2017 20:59 UTC
Lindsay Shepherd
© Dave Abel/Toronto SunMilquetoast - the colour of evil.
Lindsay Shepherd is oppressed.

She's just not oppressed enough for some, it seems.

As the feminist SJW creed goes; being a poor fragile woman trapped in a culture of toxic masculinity entrenched by the hegemonic patriarchy, her status of perpetual victimhood is virtually assured. Yet, because she lacks so many of the other minority signifiers that would allow her to claim her rightful place atop the victim hierarchy, she has become the target of radical postmodern ideologues who inhabit the Canadian left, and who have begun spewing unabashed racism towards her on public television and social media.

What did Lindsay Shepherd do to incite such disdain and vehement vitriol from these peace-loving, inclusive and tolerant progressives?

She is Caucasian.

Her most heinous crime was being born with pale skin.

And it is precisely because she is so melaninly-challenged that, by default, her words carry no weight, her opinions have no value, her suffering is of no consequence, her very being is diminished, and her life is reduced to nothing but a pointless, pitiful exercise in undeserved middle-class privilege.

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War Whore

AP probe finds at least 11,000 civilians were killed in battle to free Mosul from ISIS - Number of dead likely much higher


RT
Wed, 20 Dec 2017 18:38 UTC
mosul civilians
© Goran Tomasevic / ReutersA man cries as he carries his daughter in Mosul in March 2017
The liberation of Mosul from Islamic State came at a high cost, according to an AP probe which found that between 9,000 and 11,000 civilians died during the process. The coalition acknowledges responsibility for 326 of the deaths.

The investigation cross-referenced independent databases from non-government organizations and analyzed the city morgue's list of 9,606 names of people killed in the battle. The probe found that at least 3,200 civilians were killed by Iraqi or US-led coalition airstrikes, artillery fire, or mortar rounds between October 2016 and July 2017.

Most of those victims were described in Health Ministry reports as simply being "crushed." However, the US coalition has acknowledged responsibility for just 326 of those deaths, while stating that it lacks the resources to send investigators to Mosul, according to AP.

Another one-third of the dead were killed in the final violent campaign of Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS). The causes of the remaining deaths could not be determined, as they were civilians who were trapped inside neighborhoods hit by airstrikes, IS explosives, and mortar rounds from all sides of the fight.
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Russia resumes search for Argentina's missing submarine


TASS
Wed, 20 Dec 2017 18:22 UTC
San Juan submarine
© EPA-EFE/Argentina NavySan Juan submarine
The Islas Malvinas vessel of the Argentine Navy, carrying Russian experts and a remote-controlled submersible, has returned to the area where search for Argentina's missing San Juan submarine continues, the Argentine Navy's press service said on Tuesday.

"Argentine Navy's Islas Malvinas vessel, equipped with the Pantera Plus submersible, is already examining the seabed together with the Argentine Navy's La Argentina destroyer and UK ocean survey ship Protector," the press service said in a statement.

According to the statement, Russian ocean survey ship Yantar, which had to leave the search area to replenish its stocks, is expected to return to the search zone by the end of the week.

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Attorney busted running prison sex video racket


RT
Wed, 20 Dec 2017 18:15 UTC
andrew spark
© Pinellas County Sheriff's Office / Facebook
An attorney was caught with his pants down attempting to film sex scenes with an inmate for a 'Girls in Jail' video in Pinellas County, Florida.

Pinellas County Sheriff's Office received a tip from an inmate in late November that Andrew Spark was using his status as a lawyer to meet with female inmates at the Pinellas County Jail in Clearwater. He had 'taped video sex with the inmates for a fee,' Sheriff Bob Gualtieri said.

An inmate named Shauna Boselli, who has been sentenced for child pornography along with her husband, told authorities that she met Spark about two years ago at a porn convention in Tampa. When she ended up in jail, Spark visited her. She said she was surprised to see him, and he told her he would put money into her commissary account in exchange oral sex.

"Spark told Boselli when he met with her in November, a few weeks ago, that he was preparing porn videos of female inmates performing oral sex on him from within the jails and, in exchange, he puts money in the inmate's account," Gualtieri said.
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Treasure Chest

Bitcoin's cryptic creator among world's wealthiest people thanks to soaring price


RT
Wed, 20 Dec 2017 18:14 UTC
bitcoin
© Michael Weber / Global Look Press
The anonymous person who invented bitcoin joined the Forbes' list of the world's 50 wealthiest people shortly after the digital currency hit a record $20,000 on Sunday.

The world's number one virtual currency has retreated from record highs, trading around $18,000 at 13:00 GMT on Wednesday. The market value of the cryptocurrency was hovering around $300 billion, according to CoinMarketCap.

The whole world is still guessing at the identity of bitcoin's mysterious creator who goes by the pseudonym of Satoshi Nakamoto. Several people have been named or have claimed credit for being the creator.

In November, a 64-year-old Japanese-American Dorian Satoshi Nakamoto, who lives in California, was named as the man behind the cryptocurrency. But he denied the report.
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Heart - Black

Russia's membership in International Paralympic Committee still under suspension


RT
Wed, 20 Dec 2017 17:46 UTC
curling
© Mihail Mokrushin / Sputnik
The International Paralympic Committee has kept Russia's suspension in force, but said that the final decision on the Russian team's participation at the 2018 Paralympic Winter Games will be made in January.

The decision comes after the Russian Olympic team was barred from participating in the 2018 Winter Olympics in South Korea. The International Olympic Committee (IOC) ruled on December 5 that "clean"Russian athletes can only compete under a neutral flag in PyeongChang.

Last year, the International Paralympic Committee (IPC) banned the entire Russian team from participating at the 2016 Summer Paralympics held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, in September. Athletes from Russia had been permitted to take part in the Olympic Games in August, following the IOC ruling which granted individual sports federations the right to make decisions regarding the participation of Russian athletes in their respective competitions.
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Accused child rapist walks free after police are once again caught keeping evidence from lawyers


RT
Wed, 20 Dec 2017 17:40 UTC
British UK police
© Adrian Dennis / AFPFILE PHOTO
An accused child rapist has walked free after police were caught withholding crucial evidence from lawyers for the second time in a week. The defendant was released after prosecutors offered no evidence in court.

It is understood that evidence recovered from the phone of the complainant by police was handed over to defense lawyers for Isaac Itiary, who had been accused of raping an underage girl, undermining the prosecution's case.

Police have a duty to disclose evidence to prosecutors and the accused's defense team. In the Itiary case, one source with knowledge of the proceedings told The Guardian that "the Met could have moved quicker. They were a bit slow."

Itiary's abortive trial is the second time that rape charges have been dropped following a string of possible police errors. Last week, student Liam Allan was cleared of rape and sexual assault charges in similar circumstances.
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Abject failure: May's conservative government slammed over Britain's skyrocketing homelessness


RT
Wed, 20 Dec 2017 11:26 UTC
homeless UK, homeless Britain
© Jonathan Nicholson / Global Look Press
Theresa May's approach to Britain's homelessness crisis has been labeled an "abject failure." The Conservative Party is being slammed after an explosive report revealed more than 120,000 children have no place to call home.

The Public Accounts Committee report found the number of people sleeping rough has jumped a staggering 134 percent since 2011.

"The Department for Communities and Local Government's (the Department) attitude to reducing homelessness has been unacceptably complacent," the report said.


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German school admits it rescheduled Christmas party but denies it was the result of 'Muslim complaint'


RT
Wed, 20 Dec 2017 16:48 UTC
kids Santa hats Christmas
© Ali Jarekji / Reuters
A report that a German school rescheduled a mandatory Christmas celebration after a student complained that it was not compatible with Islam caused a stir in local media, though the school later denied that was the reason.

The controversy started with an article published by NDR, claiming that the authorities of Johanneum Luneburg School in Lower Saxony rescheduled the mandatory Christmas celebration after the complaint and made it voluntary, leaving it up to students whether or not to take part. The report was widely circulated in the German media.
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Magic Wand

26yo Tennessee woman gives birth to daughter frozen as embryo for 24 years


RT
Wed, 20 Dec 2017 00:00 UTC
Baby Emma Wren
© Laszlo Balogh / Reuters
A woman in Tennessee has given birth a baby daughter that was frozen as an embryo 24 years ago. It is believed to be a world record for frozen embryo to result in a successful birth.

Baby Emma Wren was born to parents Tina and Benjamin Gibson on November 25, local media WATE, citing the National Embryo Donation Center (NEDC), which supplied the embryo, reports.

Tina was born in 1991, her daughter was conceived just 18 months later, though the two were separated by an entire generation when the embryonic Emma was cryopreserved in 1992.
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