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Britain's youngest female pedophile sent footage of crimes committed while babysitting to ex-cop

Paul Bracchi
Daily Mail
Fri, 01 Feb 2019 22:56 UTC
Sophie Elms

Sophie, now 18, was jailed this week for molesting two sisters, both infants, when she herself was 17. The girls' father blasted Elms for a Snapchat selfie that Elms had posted from her bedroom shortly before she arrived in court (pictured last year) to enter her plea. ‘All ready for court,’ she wrote underneath, as if she was going to a party
Sophie Elms had the most reassuring CV for a babysitter. She was taking a course in childcare at Swindon College and, as part of her training, was on work placement at a nursery.

What parent wouldn't trust such a person?

There was nothing in her background to suggest she was anything but a conscientious, law-abiding young woman. To this day, she can be seen on social media attending happy family gatherings, getting ready to go out (in a polka-dot dress) and cuddling her pet terrier, Chalkie ('Sophie chilling with Chalkie' is the caption under one photograph).

'Sophie is from a really nice family,' said someone who lives a few doors away from her and her parents in Royal Wootton Bassett, the Wiltshire market town on the outskirts of Swindon. 'If ever I bump into them in town, they will always stop and chat.'

Comment: Not every victim of child abuse becomes a perpetrator themselves and in this case Elms seems oblivious to the abhorrent nature of her crimes: Also check out SOTT radio's: Behind the Headlines: Women Who Love Psychopaths - With Sandra L. Brown

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Hawaii first state in US to propose ban on cigarette sales

Erika Engle
khon2
Fri, 01 Feb 2019 04:14 UTC
Rihanna smoke cannabis

Rihanna smokes cannabis following legalization in Hawaii.
Hawaii could be the first state in the U.S. to ban the sale of cigarettes, if a current proposal becomes law.

Adults younger than age 30 could be legally prohibited from buying cigarettes in less than a year's time -- and all cigarette sales would be banned in Hawaii in five years -- under a bill by State Representative Richard Creagan. The bill was co-signed by Representatives John Mizuno, also a Democrat, and Cynthia Thielen, a Republican.

"We're taxing them, that did decrease use somewhat, but we still have 140,000 people in our state that smoke cigarettes. You don't see them as much anymore, because we kind of made them hide. But, they're going to die, half of them are going to die if they keep smoking, and we can prevent that."


Comment: Anti-smoking totalitarians who are revelling in the idea of a smoking ban should realise that, if the bill goes through, the government will be looking to fill the loss of cigarette taxes, which provide a significant revenue, from somewhere.


Creagan dismisses the argument that his proposal would take away a smoker's civil liberty, saying it is something the tobacco industry has long cited. KHON2 was unable to reach the American Civil Liberties Union for comment on this story.

Comment: Welcome to planet Earth, aka Bizarro World, where the push to legalize cannabis products continues apace, more Americans die from overdoses on opioid medications than ever before, the entire food supply is contaminated by harsh agricultural chemicals and GMOs, and all of this comes with government approval and/or popular support, but buying cigarettes will soon become a criminal offense: Also check out SOTT radio's: The Health & Wellness Show: The Truth about Tobacco and the Benefits of Nicotine

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A serious crisis: Brutal Attacks on White South African Farmers Soared in 2018


Sputnik
Sat, 02 Feb 2019 16:38 UTC
Farmer
© AP Photo / Schalk van Zuydam
This year may already see the South African government using the country's constitutional changes to seize land from white farmers and refuse to pay them compensation. The reform is being pushed by President Cyril Ramaphosa and the governing party amid reports of brutal attacks on farmers.

Attacks on white South African farmers skyrocketed by 25 percent in 2018, with assailants using electric drills, blowtorches and bleach against some victims, according to a report released by the Afriforum group, which champions the rights of the country's Afrikaner minority.

Afriforum spokesman Ernst Roets pointed to a "racial element" in the attacks, saying that the number of murders had ebbed to 54 from 72 in 2017, in a sign that the white farmers had tried to fend off their attackers.

"More victims are shooting back, more are being trained and more are defending themselves. They are not allowing themselves to be victims. The farmers aren't waiting to get murdered, but rather prepared for that contact to happen", Roets noted.

Comment: See also: South Africa to change constitution to legalize takeover of white farmers' lands

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The Equality Act & the nature of sex

Andrew Sullivan
NY Mag
Sat, 02 Feb 2019 11:40 UTC
male female boy girl sex gender
© Yukipon
It might be a sign of the end-times, or simply a function of our currently scrambled politics, but earlier this week, four feminist activists - three from a self-described radical feminist organization Women's Liberation Front - appeared on a panel at the Heritage Foundation. Together they argued that sex was fundamentally biological, and not socially constructed, and that there is a difference between women and trans women that needs to be respected. For this, they were given a rousing round of applause by the Trump supporters, religious-right members, natural law theorists, and conservative intellectuals who comprised much of the crowd. If you think I've just discovered an extremely potent strain of weed and am hallucinating, check out the video of the event.

I've no doubt that many will see these women as anti-trans bigots, or appeasers of homophobes and transphobes, or simply deranged publicity seekers. (The moderator, Ryan Anderson, said they were speaking at Heritage because no similar liberal or leftist institution would give them space or time to make their case.) And it's true that trans-exclusionary radical feminists or TERFs, as they are known, are one minority that is actively not tolerated by the LGBTQ establishment, and often demonized by the gay community. It's also true that they can be inflammatory, offensive, and obsessive. But what interests me is their underlying argument, which deserves to be thought through, regardless of our political allegiances, sexual identities, or tribal attachments. Because it's an argument that seems to me to contain a seed of truth. Hence, I suspect, the intensity of the urge to suppress it.
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'All of us are broke': Gaza's farmers struggle to make living on war's front lines


Al-Monitor
Sat, 02 Feb 2019 11:38 UTC
Palestinian Gaza farmer

A Palestinian farmer works in his fields in the Gaza Strip village of Khuzaa.
Ahmed Felfel and his wife, Jazia, had a bad harvest this year.

"The agricultural situation was the worst," Jazia Felfel said. "All farmers are broke."

The couple's farm, located in Beit Lahiya in the northern Gaza Strip, sits near the border with Israel, caught between the Palestinian "right of return" protests and Israeli military sniper fire.
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Biohazard

Mountains of trash causing 'medieval disease' to spread to LA City Hall


RT
Sat, 02 Feb 2019 07:55 UTC
los angeles skid row
© Reuters/Dania Maxwell
Homeless tents line the street around the Fred Jordan Mission, in the Skid Row area of Los Angeles, California, May 12, 2018.
The epidemic of typhus in Los Angeles, California has spread from homeless encampments to City Hall. Local authorities say they are trying to address the problem, but critics point to mountains of trash lining the streets.

Deputy City Attorney Liz Greenwood was diagnosed with typhus in November, after complaining about having headaches and high fever, she told KNBC on Friday.

"It felt like somebody was driving railroad stakes through my eyes and out the back of my neck," Greenwood said. "Who gets typhus? It's a medieval disease that's caused by trash."


Comment: See also:

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Syringe

Overreach in Oregon: State pushes legislation to make sure new parents are observed at home and vaccinating their newborns

Truthstream Media
Activist Post
Thu, 31 Jan 2019 00:00 UTC
nanny state for anti-vaxxers
The World Health Organization has now gone on record to say that among the greatest threats to global health are anti-vaxxers. You know what this means ... calls for mandatory vaccinations are well on the way.

Oregon and Washington are making an unprecedented move that could go to yet another level of overreach - home inspections for new parents. Using the language of a "state emergency," they are going all-in on the literal nanny state.

Melissa and Aaron Dykes cover the latest in giving up personal and parental rights to the all-knowledgeable State. Because clearly you are missing a "pre-emptive CPS worker" to show up at your home and help properly manage you and your children.

Aaron & Melissa Dykes are the founders of TruthstreamMedia.com, Subscribe to them on YouTube, like on Facebook, follow on Twitter, support on Patreon. Watch their mini-documentary Obsolete here and their full-length documentary THE MINDS OF MEN here.

Comment: We've been seeing quite a bit of this aggressive and egregious push lately: James Corbett: Vaccination propaganda in overdrive as vaccine/autism link is further confirmed

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Shocking: College student stabs her best friend 30 times with a butcher knife then greets cops covered in blood in the apartment they shared

Keith Griffith
Daily Mail
Fri, 25 Jan 2019 16:42 UTC
Luisa Cutting

Luisa Cutting, 21, was charged with second-degree murder on Thursday in Virginia
A college student has broken down in tears in her mugshot after she was arrested on suspicion of stabbing her best friend 30 to 40 times in the apartment where they both lived.

Luisa Ines Tudela Harris Cutting, 21, was charged with second-degree murder on Thursday in western Virginia in the death of her Radford University classmate Alexa Cannon, 20.

Police were called to the students' apartment complex at 7.45am on Thursday, with the dispatcher reporting that a female caller was screaming something about a knife.

When they arrived, officers were greeted by Cutting, who was covered and blood, and turned around placing her hands behind her back saying 'arrest me', according to an arrest warrant.

When asked why they should arrest her, the warrant states that Cutting replied: 'I killed her.'

Comment: Psychosis? Psychopathy? Possession?

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Outrage as pregnant woman manhandled off train over unpaid ticket, young daughter watched in horror


RT
Fri, 01 Feb 2019 17:33 UTC
Woman at train station
© Courtesy Instagram / @action4humanity_se
Two transport police officers have been suspended after a brutal intervention in which they dragged a screaming pregnant woman off a Stockholm metro train as onlookers, including her young daughter, watched in horror.

In eyewitness footage of the event, which has been shared widely on social media, the security guards wrestle the black woman off the train before pinning her face down against a bench. Her crying five-year-old child watched helplessly as her mother wailed; eventually one of the security personnel tries to comfort the child.
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Dollar Gold

What's with all the outrage over CEO salaries?

Carol Roth
Medium
Tue, 22 Jan 2019 18:33 UTC
office eatery
There's a growing trope that inequality is somehow inherently bad. I should say, rather, inequality only as it applies to financial measures like income or wealth, as it never seems to be measured by time, effort, experience, etc. We consistently hear from certain crowds with a "fixed pie", zero-sum game mentality that a CEO making some multiple more than the average worker is an outrageous issue that needs to be fixed. This, in principle, is absurd and not surprisingly, with actual math behind it, does not hold up.

Regardless of whether you think it is good or bad, CEOs are paid market rates.

Articles and politicians alike lament and pick out successful CEOs, comparing their wages to the average workers and feigning outrage about the differential. While it makes a clickable headline, the two jobs are not comparable. Large company CEOs who make seven or eight figures per year are by and large responsible for thousands of workers and are paid based on their collective investment in themselves and their craft- their experience, including usually working extensively for decades to be considered for such a decision, their network and a whole variety of other factors. For what is required, there is a smaller pool of people able and willing to take on such a job. Most importantly, there are benchmarks, meaning that pay is often in line with what others have commanded for a similar position, as well as, demand, meaning organizations willing to pay well for such experience.
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