SPLC - Southern Poverty Law Center

Southern Poverty Law Center Headquarters Building, Montgomery Alabama

Seems the SPLC has run aground. The Daily Wire has two stories:

• How A Guilty Verdict Could Push The Southern Poverty Law Center To The Brink Of Ruin by  Cameron Arcand
• SPLC Raged At PayPal For Helping Fund Charlottesville Rally — While Bankrolling One Of Its Planners by  Zach Jewell

Couldn't happen to a nicer bunch of charlatans. The SPLC did some good work in its early days, but the last 20 years or so have seen them run off the rails and into the swamp of depravity.

Malcolm X

Malcolm X

I've been seeing a number of stories about people getting out from under the yoke of the Democratic war machine lately, and I can't tell if there really is an upsurge, or it's just normal, but those kind of stories were overshadowed by the runup to the election. In any case, I like this story from RT. It has a couple of points:

1. Malcolm's family is going after the FBI & CIA for their role in the assassination, and
2. It's got a brief history of Malcolm and his extremist views. I'd kind of forgotten about that part so it's good to be reminded.

Introduction to the story:

CIA and FBI sued by family of Malcolm X

Three of Malcolm X’s daughters have filed a lawsuit against the CIA, FBI, and New York Police Department, accusing the agencies of complicity in the assassination of the militant black activist.

Filed in a Manhattan court on Friday, the suit alleges that the CIA, FBI, and NYPD were aware of a plot to kill Malcolm X, but did not act to stop it. It claims that the NYPD arrested his security detail days before the assassination, while the CIA and FBI’s undercover agents – who were present on the night of the fatal shooting – stood by while the militant leader was gunned down.

The lawsuit alleges that there was a “corrupt, unlawful, and unconstitutional” relationship between the agencies and “ruthless killers that went unchecked for many years and was actively concealed, condoned, protected, and facilitated by government agents.”

Malcolm was killed in 1965.

Not Everyone Is An Idiot

The Bibliophiles - Tito Lessi 1904

A couple of bright spots in the ongoing storm of stupidity.

Sweden Moves To Protect Academic Freedom After Professor Quits Covid Research Due To Harassment via ZeroHedge

Then there was a story from last July about how Red Bull, the energy drink company, caught some flack about some diversity training. They fired the people in charge of that and that apparently put an end to it. I would have thought that the firings would have ignited a shit storm of protest from the twidiots, but a bit of Googling turned up nothing since. So, yeah Red Bull! Via TheQuartering on YouTube. I didn't watch the whole video, he's too long winded for me.

Lastly we have Every Black Life Matters, which, despite its name is a right-wing organization totally opposed to BLM (Black Lives Matter). And yes, it appears to be mostly by and for blacks.

Bonus abbreviation for the day: exh. stands for exhibited when used in reference to old art works.

More Russia

Best story of the day comes from Russia. I could try and verify it with a Western news source, but what if I could? Just increases the likelihood that the story is true, and if I couldn't, well, then it's being suppressed by the fascists in control of our press.
     Seems we have a Russian citizen locked up in Guantanamo. He's been there for ten years. We found him in an Al-Qaeda hideout in Pakistan, so he might very well be a terrorist. Then again he might be a pizza delivery guy. Who knows? Who's telling? And if they told you, would you believe them? Whatever.
     The Russians want to talk to him. Seems reasonable. If Russia was holding one of our citizens on some trumped up charge in some God-forsaken hell hole, you can bet we would be screaming bloody murder if they wouldn't let us talk to him. Wouldn't we? Or maybe we'd just ask for his coordinates so we could drop a Hellfire missile on him. And what kind of name is that for a weapon? That's about the worst thing I can think of. Hellfire missiles are designed to destroy armored vehicles like tanks. Any kind of ordinary thing, like a building or a truck, much less a person, does not stand a chance.


Apache Engage Insurgents Hiding In A Building With 2 Hellfire Missiles [Old video caption: Apache attack with Hellfire and 30mm Gun]
I think the gunfire was superfluous. I had a hard time finding a good video. There are a bunch of videos of Hellfire missiles out there, but most of them suffer from upbeat music, people cheering death & destruction, disorienting editing or long drawn out surveillance scenes.

Update September 2017 replaced missing video. Video title was formerly prefixed with "Afghanistan - Absolutely typical ".
Update March 2020 replaced missing video with something similar.