1.11 - Inescapable Podcast - Hate For Profit

About this episode

The episode discusses the indictment of the SPLC for fraud and its controversial funding practices while addressing various social issues.

The SPLC has been indicted on wire fraud, bank fraud, and conspiracy to commit money laundering. America's most powerful civil rights organisation spent decades funding the extremist groups it claimed to fight. We trace how the SPLC built a $471 million empire on manufactured hate — fake chapters, phantom hate groups, informants paid to stoke the racism their donors bankrolled them to stop. When the KKK collapsed, they needed new villains. Also: families sleeping in cars on the Sunshine Coast while the government claims immigration is under control. Tony Burke says assimilation is optional. A Greens candidate campaigns in Punjabi — and he isn't Punjabi. In Plus: Sydney's Phantom Pooper terrorises a posh suburb, Canada's $200 million spaceport is a slab of concrete, JD Vance says UFOs are demons, and a Pentagon report funded to expose Chinese racism concludes it's actually a military advantage. WATCH ON YOUTUBE Links Southern Poverty Law Center indicted on federal fraud charges | AP News ""You're alleging that the Southern Poverty Law Center was paying the leaders of the KKK and other groups?" Acting AG Todd Blanche: "I'm not alleging it. The grand jury returned an indictment that…

People in this episode

Hosts: Benjamin Grundy, Aaron Wright

Topics covered

• civil rights
• fraud
• extremism
• immigration
• politics
• media
• social issues

Keywords

• SPLC
• fraud
• hate groups
• immigration
• Tony Burke
• JD Vance
• Sydney
• Sunshine Coast
• extremism
• civil rights

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: SPLC, Southern Poverty Law Center

Places: Sunshine Coast, Sydney, Canada

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