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Left-wing non-profit SPLC transfers millions to offshore tax havens, generously rewards key executives while spending little on legal services

Joe Schoffstall
The Washington Free Beacon
Thu, 31 Aug 2017 09:00 UTC
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The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), a liberal, Alabama-based 501(c)(3) tax-exempt charitable organization that has gained prominence on the left for its "hate group" designations, pushes millions of dollars to offshore entities as part of its business dealings, records show.

Additionally, the nonprofit pays lucrative six-figure salaries to its top directors and key employees while spending little on legal services despite its stated intent of "fighting hate and bigotry" using litigation, education, and other forms of advocacy.

The Southern Poverty Law Center is perhaps best known for its "hate map," a collection of organizations the nonprofit deems "domestic hate groups" that lists mainstream conservative organizations alongside racist groups such as the Ku Klux Klan and is often referenced in the media. A gunman opened fire at the Washington, D.C., offices of the conservative Family Research Council in 2012 after seeing it listed as an "anti-gay" group on SPLC's website.

The SPLC has turned into a fundraising powerhouse, recording more than $50 million in contributions and $328 million in net assets on its 2015 Form 990, the most recently available tax form from the nonprofit. SPLC's Form 990-T, its business income tax return, from the same year shows that they have "financial interests" in the Cayman Islands, British Virgin Islands, and Bermuda. No information is available beyond the acknowledgment of the interests at the bottom of the form.

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Heart - Black

Description of Croydon cat killer released by the police

Haroon Siddique
The Guardian
Thu, 31 Aug 2017 17:28 UTC
cat with toy
© Konrad Wothe/Getty Images/LOOKThe charity Snarl is urging people not to let their cats out at night, when most of the killings have taken place.
The first description has been released of a suspected serial cat killer who has eluded police for almost two years.

The culprit is behind the death and mutilation of about 250 cats, as well as dozens of foxes and rabbits, since October 2015, according to South Norwood Animal Rescue and Liberty (Snarl).

He was originally known as the "Croydon cat killer", but as bodies began to turn up in other areas of London and beyond the capital, the charity urged people to drop the label. He then became known as the "M25 cat killer" but attacks have since occurred as far afield as Manchester, Birmingham, Brighton and the Isle of Wight.

The description of the individual believed to be behind all of the attacks has been published on the Snarl website. He is said to be a white man in his 40s with short brown hair, dressed in dark clothing, possibly with acne scarring to his face. It also says he may be wearing a headlamp or carrying a torch.

Comment: Serial Hampshire cat killer becoming 'more brazen' as 3 more bodies discovered; 230 feline deaths suspected

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South Africa: Police investigate four men for murder in cannibal case

Chelsea Pieterse
News 24
Fri, 01 Sep 2017 17:17 UTC
south african family
© Ian CarbuttThe family of Zanele Hlatshwayo (inset), the alleged victim in the Estcourt ‘cannibal’ case, stand outside their family home in Shayamoya just outside Estcourt.
The remains found in the house of one of the four men accused of murder in Estcourt's "cannibal" case are believed to be those of Shayamoya resident Zanele Hlatshwayo (25), who is the mother of two-year-old son.

Estcourt police arrested four men on Friday last week for allegedly killing a person and eating their flesh. Police allegedly found an arm and a leg at the house of Estcourt's nyanga, Nino Mbatha, who was among the four men arrested.

Mbatha (32) and his co-accused, Sthembiso Sithole (31), Lindokuhle Masondo (32) and Lungisani Magubane (30), appeared in the Estcourt Magistrate's Court on Monday on charges of murder and conspiracy to commit murder after one of the four men allegedly walked into the Estcourt police station on Friday, holding human body parts and confessing to being "tired of eating human flesh".

Hlatshwayo's bloodied and torn clothes, which were found among the human remains in Mbatha's home, were positively identified on Monday afternoon by her family, although police are awaiting DNA results to confirm the remains are indeed Hlatshwayo's.
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Bizarro Earth

Propaganda Alert! Innocent Bangladesh Rohingya Muslim refugees fleeing Evil Burma Regime

Ishaan Tharoor
Independent
Fri, 01 Sep 2017 19:08 UTC
Rohingyas walk along the road to reach to the refugee camp
© Mohammad Ponir Hossain/ReutersRohingyas walk along the road to reach to the refugee camp after crossing the border in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh
Approximately 18,500 persecuted minority living in squalid camps in neighbouring state after suffering government-sponsored violence in homeland

In recent days, thousands of Rohingya Muslims in Burma, have made their way to neighbouring Bangladesh, fleeing an aggressive Burmese military campaign that ravaged dozens of villages in the country's restive state of Rakhine. An official from the International Organisation for Migration told reporters at least 18,500 Rohingya refugees have crossed the border in the past six days, joining the nearly 400,000 Rohingya already housed in squalid camps in Bangladesh.

The Rohingya are quite simply one of the most helpless and forsaken peoples of the world. An ethnic minority disdained by the Burmese public and ignored by the Burmese government, the Rohingya do not have full citizenship rights. About 1.1 million Rohingya live in apartheid-like conditions in northern Rakhine. They need to seek official permission to marry or even travel outside their villages.

Despite the fact that the vast majority of Rohingya families have called Rakhine home for generations, the government views them as "Bengali" interlopers from across the border. Bangladeshi authorities, meanwhile, have struggled to cope with the influx, frequently turn away Rohingya civilians seeking entry and do not view them as formal refugees.

Comment: In other words, 'this is not another proxy jihadi operation to satisfy Saudi/Western interests, but we can quickly make it one if the Burmese govt doesn't bend to our will'.

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Ambulance

Heatwaves and heavy rain cause the number of cholera cases in Yemen to spike


Sputnik
Fri, 01 Sep 2017 17:10 UTC
Yemeni patient
© AP Photo/ Hani MohammedAccording to reports, the number of suspected cholera cases in regions along Yemen's western coast has significantly increased.
The number of suspected cholera cases in regions along Yemen's western coast, including Al Hudaydah province, has significantly increased, the international non-governmental organization Save the Children said in a Friday statement.

"An outbreak of cholera has spiked dramatically in several areas of Yemen, including its largest governorate of Hodeidah, Save the Children is warning... In the coastal Hodeidah Governorate, where the charity runs malnutrition and cholera treatment centres, suspected cholera cases have jumped by 40% over the past three weeks amid heavy rains and a heatwave," the statement said.

Comment: Yemen facing 'worst cholera outbreak in the world' with 1000's of new cases each day - UN, WHO

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Attention

UNAMA: 28 women & children killed in Afghanistan airstrikes this week


RT
Fri, 01 Sep 2017 18:48 UTC
Dasht-e-Bari village, Logar province, Afghanistan
© Faridullah Ahmadzai / AFPPeople gather at the site of an airstrike in Dasht-e-Bari village, Logar province, Afghanistan on August 30, 2017
Twenty-eight civilians have been killed in airstrikes in Afghanistan this week, with the latest strike killing 13 people, according to the United Nations Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA). All of the victims were women and children.

The most recent airstrikes took place in the Pul-e-Alam district of eastern Logar province on Wednesday, killing 13 civilians and injuring 12 others, according to the UNAMA's preliminary findings.

The strikes reportedly targeted a civilian compound being used by insurgents to attack aircraft.
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Attention

'They beat me & threatened my family': Italian bus driver attacked by migrants after allegedly trying to run over man then laughed


RT
Fri, 01 Sep 2017 08:36 UTC
Bus driver attack
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A bus driver in Italy has sustained numerous injuries after being beaten by a group of men in Parma to the cheers of a larger crowd of alleged immigrants. The attack, which could have been racially motivated, was filmed on camera.

Two videos have emerged from the scene. The first shows around a dozen of people of color, allegedly foreign migrants, shouting and yelling at a bus driver, as a fellow Tep bus company employee, tries to calm down the infuriated crowd.

Following repeated insults, as the second video shot by a passenger on the bus shows, a young black man getting onto the bus, striking the bus driver to the ground. At least three men helped instigate the assault.

The driver was saved by a policeman who rushed to the scene. The victim suffered several bruises and a cut to his nose. According to local media, the veteran Tep bus driver of 31 years was admitted to a hospital with various injuries.
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Attention

US warns citizens of terrorist attacks threat at European tourist hotspots, "exercise additional vigilance"


RT
Fri, 01 Sep 2017 13:42 UTC
London Bridge
© Peter Nicholls / ReutersA woman passes flowers left on the south side of London Bridge near Borough Market after an attack left 7 people dead and dozens of injured in London, Britain, June 5, 2017.
The US has extended a European travel alert for its citizens, warning that terrorists continue to focus on tourist sites as attack targets, and that those traveling to the continent should "exercise additional vigilance" around such areas.

The alert, issued Thursday, cites "widely reported incidents" in France, Russia, Sweden, the United Kingdom, Spain, and Finland, adding that the State Department "remains concerned about the potential for future terrorist attacks."

It goes on to state that extremists are continuing to focus on "tourist locations, transportation hubs, markets/shopping malls, and local government facilities as viable targets.

"In addition, hotels, clubs, restaurants, places of worship, parks, high-profile events, educational institutions, airports, and other soft targets remain priority locations for possible attacks."

The alert warns US citizens to "exercise additional vigilance in these and similar locations," adding that terrorists are using a variety of tactics in their attacks, including firearms, explosives, vehicles, and sharp-edged weapons which are "difficult to detect prior to an attack."

Comment: See also: The Truth Perspective: Weapons of Mass Migration: Interview with Michael Springmann on Europe's Migrant Crisis

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Info

Ukraine's EU association deal bittersweet with no real hope for integration


RT
Fri, 01 Sep 2017 14:30 UTC
Ukrainian holding EU flag
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Friday marks the day when the association agreement between Ukraine and the European Union officially comes into force. With many regulations already in place, and other changes coming, RT tried to find out whether Kiev can hope for real integration with Europe.

The political part of the agreement has been around since September 1, 2014, and the economic part de-facto worked from January 2016. However, it took a while before the agreement was adopted in the EU.

After Brussels assured the Netherlands the deal wouldn't give Ukraine automatic membership of the EU, and that Kiev will not be able to receive funding from the EU and will not become a part of its defense programs, the agreement was eventually given the green light. The temporary status now becomes permanent.

"The agreement on the association of Ukraine with the EU is a package of 486 articles, 311 of which regulate trade and issues related to trade," explains Evsey Vasilyev, Deputy Director General at an independent Russian political consultancy Strategic Communications.

"In fact, we are talking about an expanded free trade zone. The EU has the same deal with thirty other states around the world, including Latin America, North Africa, the Middle East, as well as Albania, Kosovo, South Africa and South Korea," he added.
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Info

Crimean ex-prosecutor Poklonskaya dismisses reports of Russian presidential ambitions


RT
Fri, 01 Sep 2017 14:35 UTC
Natalya Poklonskaya
© Alexandr Polegenko / SputnikNatalya Poklonskaya
Russian MP and former chief prosecutor of the Crimean Republic Natalya Poklonskaya has dismissed media speculation that she could run for the presidency in 2018, adding that she had no information about any other woman who wants to run.

The comments came after Russian business daily Vedomosti published an article quoting unnamed sources in the Russian presidential administration as saying the Kremlin was allegedly considering running a female politician as a competitor to Vladimir Putin in the 2018 presidential race.

As well as Poklonskaya, other possible candidates Vedomosti mentioned for the role were Senator Elena Mizulina and editor-in-chief of the Russian version of the L'Officiel magazine Kseniya Sobchak.

In comments with the Dozhd television channel, Poklonskaya called the claims "rubbish" and said that she "knew nothing about the things the reporters were writing about."

Kremlin Press Secretary Dmitry Peskov also refuted the allegations. "No one in the Kremlin has thought about it," he told reporters on Friday.
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