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Witch-hunting Southern Poverty Law Center hoarding half billion in assets including $121m in offshore accounts

Joe Schoffstall
Washington Free Beacon
Tue, 12 Mar 2019 17:59 UTC
Richard Cohen Southern Poverty Law Center SPLC
© Getty ImagesRichard Cohen, president of the Southern Poverty Law Center
The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), a far-left nonprofit known for its "hate group" designations, has surpassed a half billion dollars in total assets and now has $121 million parked offshore, according to the group's most recent financial statements.

The SPLC, which is based in Montgomery, Ala., has not publicly posted its most recent financial statements on its website. However, the organization applied for renewal in the state of California days ago and submitted a number of documents pertaining to its financial standing including its most recent audited statement and tax forms for calendar year 2018, which covers Nov. 1, 2017 to Oct. 31, 2018.

According to the filings submitted to California's Office of Attorney General, the group reported total assets of $518 million from November 2017 to the Oct. 31, 2018, an increase of $41 million from the $477 million in total assets it reported on its previous year's tax forms.

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RICO and Defamation Lawsuits

It might just come to pass that SPLC needs every penny in that big pile of coins.

The group that lays the "hate" or "racist" label on anyone with whom it disagrees, a label that led to a terror attack at the headquarters of the Family Research Council, faces at least three lawsuits alleging mail fraud, defamation, tortious interference, and violations of the Racketeering Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (RICO) Act.

The plaintiffs are all victims of the SPLC's capricious labeling of those with whom it disagrees.

The latest plaintiff to file suit against the hard-left smear group is Gavin McInnes, founder of the Proud Boys, a drinking club that SPLC labeled a hate group. McInnes alleges defamation and tortious interference not only because he isn't a racist, he says, but also because the SPLC's smear was so thorough that he lost his job, can't find another, and was "deplatformed" from social media, which prevents him from defending himself effectively. Neighbors have even harassed him and tried to drive McInnes and his family out of their home.

The Center for Immigration Studies sued SPLC in January. CIS accuses SPLC's top two officials of an "ongoing conspiracy" to defame CIS with the "hate" label. That lawsuit alleges mail fraud and a violation of the RICO Act. By SPLC's own criteria, the lawsuit argues, CIS is not a hate group.

Another SPLC victim is Glenn K. Allen, a lawyer who worked for Baltimore City until SPLC called him a "neo-Nazi" who had "infiltrated" the city's legal department. Of course, the city fired him after SPLC leveled the false and defamatory claim. Like McInnes, Allen accuses SPLC of defamation and tortious interference. Like CIS, he alleges mail fraud and RICO violations. The lawsuit also attacks SPLC's tax-exempt status.

To defend that one, SPLC hired a top defamation attorney.

SPLC recently paid more than $3 million to Maajid Nawaz's Quilliam Foundation after SPLC included them in its "Field Guide to Anti-Muslim Extremists." That settlement included a humiliating video apology.



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No Entry

Global recycling crisis shows West can't use poorer countries as dumping grounds


RT
Sat, 16 Mar 2019 14:42 UTC
Garbage
© Global Look Press / Grant Falvey
India has followed China's lead and banned imports of solid plastic waste from in an effort to tackle its own environmental crisis - but the move has added to an ever-growing global recycling and plastics crisis.

One year ago, the Chinese government implemented its 'National Sword' policy, which put a stop to the massive flow of recyclable plastic waste from Western countries. Plastic imports to China were down 99 percent in the first year since the new import restriction came into force.

Until the Chinese ban, the US, UK, Germany and Japan were among the biggest exporters of plastic to China. The new rules forced them to look elsewhere to send their plastic recyclables. UK exports to Malaysia nearly tripled, while exports to Thailand were 50 times greater. The US is the biggest plastic exporter to Malaysia, sending 195,444 tonnes between January and July 2018.

But the Chinese and Indian bans have shown that exporting plastic waste is unsustainable - and Thailand and Malaysia, too, have announced bans, not wanting to continue on as the dumping ground for the world's plastic waste. While the short-term solution to the problem for Western countries has been to find alternative markets, the long-term solution, in the words of UK environment secretary Michael Gove, is to "stop offshoring our dirt."

Comment: See also: Every animal pulled from the deepest part of the ocean had plastic in its gut

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Airplane

The Russians are coming for Boeing? MC-21 passenger jet to debut at MAKS 2019 Air Show


RT
Sat, 16 Mar 2019 17:21 UTC
russia passenger plane boeing
© United Aircraft CorpThe MC-21-300 passenger airliner
The public debut of the Russian Irkut MC-21-300 with a passenger interior is scheduled for this year's Moscow International Aviation and Space Salon (MAKS 2019), which runs from August 27 to September 1.

The presentation will "visually demonstrate to potential customers and future passengers one of the most important competitive advantages of the Russian airliner - an increased level of comfort," Russian Minister of Industry and Trade Denis Manturov said as cited by the plane's producer, the United Aircraft Corporation (UAC).

On Saturday, the third MC-21-300 test aircraft made a successful maiden flight at the airfield of Irkutsk Aviation Plant, a branch of the UAC, the company announced. No incidents were reported during the 90-minute flight, with speeds of up to 500kph at an altitude of 3,500 meters. The fourth jet of the same model will start test flights later this year.
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Brick Wall

Trump's holy wall and America's shifting sense of self

Tim Kirby
The Strategic Culture Foundation
Sat, 16 Mar 2019 16:52 UTC
Trump wall map
Trump's Border Wall is such a controversial issue that any discussion of it is generally filled with far more emotion than facts or reasoning and the Wall itself is a representation of something rather emotional and abstract. Those against its construction have rhetorically retreated from the position of the wall being evil to it being "unaffordable" or a "waste of money". But do any of the people saying the wall is too expensive to make actually have any clue about the "value of the dollar" relative to government spending? Of course not, they are primarily motivated by feelings and emotions like all humans including those who are for the wall.

A good example of this madness is when CBS, a major news network asked Senator Lindsey Graham from South Carolina about whether it is worth the cost to build the Wall when a new middle school in Kentucky (among other things) needs to be built.
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Bullseye

Aussie Senator gets EGGED after comments blaming Muslims for NZ mosque shooting


RT
Sat, 16 Mar 2019 14:08 UTC
Aussie Senator
© Facebook / The Unshackled
A teenage protester has egged the Australian senator under fire for his recent statement lashing out at Muslim immigration as a reason behind Friday's mass shooting in New Zealand.

Queensland Senator Fraser Anning made the controversial statement after 49 people were killed and more than 40 injured at two Christchurch mosques on Friday. Stating that he was opposed to "any form of violence," Anning claimed that the atrocity highlighted the "growing fear over an increasing Muslim presence," in both New Zealand and Australia. The comment prompted an avalanche of criticism.

At his Saturday press conference in Melbourne, a young protester attacked him with an egg.

Footage of the incident shows the teen standing quietly beside the politician. He then pulls up his cellphone before slapping the egg on the back of Anning's head. The senator then turns to the young man before swinging two punches at his face. The teen is then tackled to the ground and held in a headlock while Anning is led away. People can be heard saying "pick him up and get him out," and "get the cops."
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Bug

Thousands of Telegram accounts marked deleted due to 'server issue'


RT
Sat, 16 Mar 2019 14:20 UTC
Telegram
© Sputnik / Kirill Kallinikov
Some 70 thousand Telegram users couldn't sign in on Saturday as their accounts were marked 'deleted'. The messenger app promises to fix the "server issue."

Telegram users in Europe and North America started to report login problems beginning at 11:00 GMT on Saturday, according to Downdetector monitoring service.

The messaging app, which touts its exceptional security, reacted quickly by tweeting that "no data is lost" during the outage and promised that "everything will be back to normal soon."
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Satellite

Pentagon hoping to test 'neutral particle-beam' weapon this year


Sputnik
Fri, 15 Mar 2019 14:19 UTC
pentagon neutral particle beam space weapons
The Pentagon wants to explore the utility of a neutral particle-beam weapon in orbit as a missile defense weapon, according to its 2020 budget proposal. It's just one of many ways the US is rushing to become the first nation to introduce weapons into space.

It sounds more like a fixture in a science fiction film than something you'd find on the Pentagon's budgetary requests, but the proposal for Fiscal Year 2020's budget includes a $304 million request for funding for a program to develop directed energy weapons that can be deployed in space as a next-generation missile defense system, Defense One reported Thursday.

The problem is, these weapons don't exist right now. That means that first the Pentagon must demonstrate that such a weapon is possible before it can even begin to develop a device usable for missile defense, something it's requested $15 million and six months of time to do. The MIssile Defense Agency (MDA) hopes to have a working weapon in orbit by 2023.

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Better Earth

Flashback Peer-reviewed survey found majority of scientists skeptical of global warming crisis

James Taylor
Forbes
Wed, 13 Feb 2013 22:51 UTC
climate change global warmnig settled science
© Rick McKee, The Augusta Chronicle, GA
It is becoming clear that not only do many scientists dispute the asserted global warming crisis, but these skeptical scientists may indeed form a scientific consensus.

Don't look now, but maybe a scientific consensus exists concerning global warming after all. Only 36 percent of geoscientists and engineers believe that humans are creating a global warming crisis, according to a survey reported in the peer-reviewed Organization Studies. By contrast, a strong majority of the 1,077 respondents believe that nature is the primary cause of recent global warming and/or that future global warming will not be a very serious problem.

The survey results show geoscientists (also known as earth scientists) and engineers hold similar views as meteorologists. Two recent surveys of meteorologists (summarized here and here) revealed similar skepticism of alarmist global warming claims.

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Marijuana

Marijuana industry tops charts with HIGHEST growth rates in job market


RT
Sat, 16 Mar 2019 13:34 UTC
Marijuana cannabis flag
© Reuters / Yuri GripasFILE PHOTO.
The nascent cannabis growing-industry is expanding the most in the US, according to new data. With over 64,000 new jobs added since last year, the weed market is causing its competitors to go up in smoke.

Now that 34 states have approved medical marijuana and ten have legalized it for all adults, the weed business is booming. A new report from cannabis website Leafly and Whitney Economics shows that legal positions in the industry increased by 44 percent last year, in some states growing from zero or double digits to several thousand.
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Wall Street

High Court of Australia awards Aboriginals 'billions' in compensation for 'land & spiritual loss'


RT
Sat, 16 Mar 2019 10:46 UTC
Australian aboriginal girls
Aboriginals in Australia have won a ground-breaking case that paves the way for billions of dollars in compensation claims for colonial land loss, as well as loss of spiritual connection.

The High Court of Australia ruled in favor of the Ngaliwurru and Nungali groups from the Northern Territory in the biggest 'native title' ruling on indigenous rights to traditional land and water in decades on Wednesday.

It said the Northern Territory government was to pay $2.53mn in damages to the Ngaliwurru and Nungali groups for an earlier federal court ruling which found the NT government "extinguished" their native title rights when they built infrastructure on their land in the 80s and 90s.
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