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Roughly 60 organizations consider lawsuit against Southern Poverty Law Center

Tyler O'Neil
PJ Media
Wed, 20 Jun 2018 16:59 UTC
Southern Poverty Law Center Hate Map
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Southern Poverty Law Center Hate Map
No fewer than 60 organizations branded "hate groups" or otherwise attacked by the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) are considering legal action against the left-wing smear factory, a Christian legal nonprofit leader confirmed to PJ Media on Tuesday. He suggested that the $3 million settlement and apology the SPLC gave to Maajid Nawaz and his Quilliam Foundation on Monday would encourage further legal action.

"We haven't filed anything against the SPLC, but I think a number of organizations have been considering filing lawsuits against the SPLC, because they have been doing to a lot of organizations exactly what they did to Maajid Nawaz," Mat Staver, founder and chairman of Liberty Counsel, told PJ Media on Tuesday.

Liberty Counsel filed a lawsuit against the charity navigation organization GuideStar for defamation after GuideStar adopted the SPLC's "hate group" list. That lawsuit is ongoing.
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LAPD cops fire rubber bullets into crowd at slain rapper's memorial after they allegedly threw rocks

Kate Feldman
New York Daily News
Wed, 20 Jun 2018 01:05 UTC
XXXTentacion memorial in LA.
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Hundreds gathered in the Fairfax area for a memorial for rapper XXXTentacion, who was killed in South Florida on Monday.
Hundreds of XXXTentacion fans converged in the Fairfax area of Los Angeles late Tuesday in a makeshift memorial for the rapper, who was shot and killed Monday - but the gathering quickly grew ugly.

About 300 people gathered to honor the controversial 20-year-old rapper, who, along with a wildly successful career, had an extensive rap sheet including domestic violence charges after allegedly beating up his pregnant girlfriend.


Comment: The LA Times reported that it's peak, up to 1,000 people were drawn to the event.


A Los Angeles Police Department spokesman told the Daily News that the crowd threw rocks and bottles at officers brought in to disperse the group. When fans failed to comply, officers fired 37mm rubber bullets into the area.
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Stock Down

The financial cost of liberal hysteria: Starbucks closing 150 stores after losing millions to conduct 'anti-bias training'

Lauretta Brown
Townhall
Wed, 20 Jun 2018 18:19 UTC
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Starbucks announced Tuesday that it is closing 150 of its U.S. stores in the next year, three times as many as the chain normally closes in that time period.

"While certain demand headwinds are transitory, and some of our cost increases are appropriate investments for the future, our recent performance does not reflect the potential of our exceptional brand and is not acceptable," Starbucks Chief Executive Officer Kevin Johnson said in a statement.

In May, Starbucks closed all of its more than 8,000 U.S. stores for an afternoon so that their employees could participate in "racial bias training" following an incident in Philadelphia in which a store employee called the police on two black men who were arrested for trespassing.

Comment: Previously:

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Biohazard

US report warns of risk of synthetic bioweapons - Fails to recognize it's the world leader in diabolical research

Ian Sample
The Guardian
Tue, 19 Jun 2018 17:26 UTC
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A new US report fears that lethal viruses could be used as weapons.
The rapid rise of synthetic biology, a futuristic field of science that seeks to master the machinery of life, has raised the risk of a new generation of bioweapons, according a major US report into the state of the art.

Advances in the area mean that scientists now have the capability to recreate dangerous viruses from scratch; make harmful bacteria more deadly; and modify common microbes so that they churn out lethal toxins once they enter the body.

The three scenarios are picked out as threats of highest concern in a review of the field published on Tuesday by the US National Academy of Sciences at the request of the Department of Defense. The report was commissioned to flag up ways in which the powerful technology might be abused, and to focus minds on how best to prepare.

Comment: The US only need look at its only government because the greatest risk from bioweapons would likely come from the vast number of US secret sites (and then there's the UKs Porton Down) where diabolical experiments appear to be the norm: Also check out SOTT radio's: The Truth Perspective: Interview with Dilyana Gaytandzhieva: Pentagon Biological Warfare And Arms Trafficking to Terrorists

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London artist recycles bodily fluids for fashion

Stuart McDill
Yahoo! News
Wed, 20 Jun 2018 18:08 UTC
Ballet shoes adorned with urine crystals
© Reuters/Stuart McDill
Urine crystals grow on a pair of ballet shoes, as part of a collection by Alice Potts.
Struggling to make your fashion more personal? No sweat. A London fashion student can help you decorate your attire with crystal accessories formed from your bodily excretions.

Royal College of Art graduate Alice Potts showcased her quirky design methods with a pair of ballet shoes adorned with crystals formed from sweat and a fake fur featuring urine-crystals at the RCA's annual fashion show.

Potts, who has also experimented with blood, believed the odorless but stomach-turning materials, donated to her by fellow students, had environmental and health benefits beyond the limitations of traditional plastic or cotton.

"Instead of using plastic accessories to maybe embellish garments ... we can start like growing onto our garments these new materials and more natural materials," she told Reuters.
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Kyrgyzstan dumps yuan and dollar for gold in reaction to US/China trade war


RT
Wed, 20 Jun 2018 18:07 UTC
gold smelting
© Arnd Wiegmann / Reuters
China's neighbor Kyrgyzstan has been piling up gold reserves as a hedge against a possible trade war between Beijing and Washington.

The country is seeking to boost the share of gold in its $2-billion international reserves to 50 percent from its current 16 percent.

"The rules of the game are changing," Kyrgyz Central Bank Governor Tolkunbek Abdygulov told Bloomberg in an interview. "It doesn't matter what currencies we have in our reserves; dollars, yuan or rubles all make us vulnerable."
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Anti-arms group calls for UK gov't to halt arms sales to 'tyrannical' Thai regime


RT
Wed, 20 Jun 2018 18:03 UTC
Prayuth Chan-ocha
© Vichan Poti/ Global Look Press
Thailand’s Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha
The UK government is "promoting" the use of "deadly" weaponry in Thailand by continuing to sell arms to the military regime despite its track record of human rights abuses, anti-arms campaigners have argued.

Ahead of the UK visit of Thailand's Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha on June 20, Campaign Against Arms Trade (CAAT) has called on Prime Minister Theresa May to halt all arms sales to the country. To maintain this trade will show that "the UK government believes the political rights of Thai people to be less important than arms company profits and cozy relations with a dictatorship."

The south-east Asian country is on the UK's 'core market' list for arms sales. According to CAAT, the UK has licensed £48 million worth of arms to the Thai dictatorship since the military coup in 2014.

Andrew Smith of CAAT said: "Human rights must be on top of the agenda at the meeting. This cannot become yet another photo-op for human rights abusers on the steps of Downing Street. The government isn't just overseeing the sale of deadly equipment, it is actively promoting it. It's time for Theresa May to end the arms sales and call for democratic change."
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Bad Guys

The big immigration charade offers no solutions

Roger L. Simon
PJ Media
Tue, 19 Jun 2018 16:17 UTC
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If you sought to preserve the violent, reactionary and undemocratic regimes of countries like El Salvador and Honduras -- and, to a great extent, Mexico -- into perpetuity, how would you do it?

One way would be by providing a permanent U.S. safety valve for all their poor and downtrodden, the victims.

Just as with Europe and the Middle East, open borders can salve the soul and make us all feel good about ourselves, but they come with a price. And that price is not just for the richer host countries in supplying costly services. It is even greater for the countries of origin whose benighted citizens, the stay behinds, are left to suffer under governments that are incompetent, corrupt and often murderous.

Comment: Simon is correct in that a solution to this issue is likely not on the horizon. The left refuses to engage in reasonable dialog and uses distortions and outright lies to further their political agenda, while the right refuses to look at horrific activity the United States has played in destabilizing countries all over the world.

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Vader

Charges against ex-CIA engineer intended to send message to potential whistleblowers


RT
Wed, 20 Jun 2018 16:29 UTC
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Charges against an ex-CIA employee are intended to send a message to potential whistleblowers, warning them that they will have no defense when pursued by the government, the executive editor of 21st Century Wire told RT.

Former CIA software engineer Joshua Schulte is facing charges over what has been described as the largest information leak in the agency's history.

Prosecutors claim that he unlawfully obtained information on the intelligence-gathering capabilities of the CIA during his time at the agency. He is alleged to have provided the information to an organization for it to be disseminated.

While the indictment does not mention the organization by name, the whistleblower's lawyers have identified it as none other than WikiLeaks.

If he is convicted on multiple charges, Schulte faces over 100 years in jail.
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"You have a soul, be careful with it": Actor Chris Pratt gives teens his "9 rules for life" to MTV-watching millennials

Jesse Dominick
The Duran
Wed, 20 Jun 2018 16:18 UTC
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Something happened at the MTV Movie and TV Awards on Monday that MTV surely was not expecting, and not hoping for.

In a move that is sadly rare for Hollywood, Chris Pratt, the night's winner of the Generation Award, used his platform on the MTV stage to speak about his faith and to encourage the young generation to believe in God.
God is real. God loves you. God wants the best for you. Believe that. I do,
Pratt said, with some oomph.

While it's not uncommon for award winners to throw in a thank you to God, Pratt, known for his work on Parks and Recreation, Guardians of the Galaxy, The Avengers, and more, took it to another, refreshing, level. The actor got spiritual in his award speech when he delivered what he dubbed "9 Rules From Chris Pratt."

Of course, his rules were peppered with Pratt-style comedy - offering advice on how to effectively take a poop at a party, for instance - but the actor also made sure to remind the millions watching that they have a soul, and that they need to take care of it.

Comment: Looks like Pratt might be reading some Jordan Peterson.

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