The Base is a white nationalist terror group that made the news when three of its members were arrested and accused of planning to start a civil war at this week’s gun rally in Virginia by murdering cops and opening fire on the pro-gun protesters.
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Something Awful’s “Fuck You and Die” forum went from freewheeling jokesters to Nazi shitposters, so it’s dead
Long before 4chan and other anything-goes forums existed, every major online community had a similar community: the Well had its “weird” forum, Usenet had alt.syntax.tactical (among others), and Something Awful had the “Fuck You and Die” forum, where people were funny, mean, obscene, and gross, sometimes all at once.
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Italian cops raid neo-Nazis, find rifles, swords and Nazi literature
An Italian police raid of 19 homes of members of the Italian National Socialist Workers’ Party uncovered troves of weapons, Nazi literature, and books about Hitler and Mussolini. “The self-styled party aimed to form a pan-European alliance with other xenophobic and anti-Semitic groups, police said, without revealing how many people had joined it. Tne suspect allegedly had links with the ‘Ndrangheta criminal network while another, a 50-year-old woman, called herself Hitler’s sergeant-major.” (Thanks, Kathy Padilla!)
Elizabeth Warren’s plan to denazify America
Elizabeth Warren has released a characteristically detailed campaign plan to counter white nationalist violence in the USA, whose multi-pronged approach includes directing the DoJ to be more vigorous in pursuing white nationalist groups (and to lay off the Cointelpro-style surveillance of groups that advocate for protections for racialized people); centralized data collection on white nationalist violence; FBI assistance in local investigations of white nationalist groups; global collaboration to disrupt international white terrorist organizations; purges of Nazis in the US military; using background checks to deny firearms to members and supporters of violent white nationalist groups; reforming school curriculum to head off white nationalist trends; creating an interagency task-force to combat white nationalism; and to “combat violent extremist content on the Internet in a manner consistent with freedom of expression” (a neat trick if she can manage it).
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Ikea’s founder was a Nazi, and never stopped praising the Nazi leader he called “Best Brother”
Ingvar Kamprad founded Ikea and invented some of the modern tax-evasion playbook, while amassing billions; despite this, he is lionized both in Sweden and abroad for his quirky frugality and the ubiquity of his stores and their products.
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Manhattan DA served Google with a “reverse search warrant” in a bid to prosecute antifa protesters
In October 2018, Proud Boys founder Gavin McInnes was invited to speak at the Manhattan Republican club, drawing neo-Nazi supporters and antifa protesters; Proud Boy thugs waded into the protest and began indiscriminately attacking the protesters.
State department official alleged be behind white nationalist terror-supporter pseudonym: “[Whites] need a country of our own with nukes”
The Southern Poverty Law Center’s Hatewatch makes a compelling case linking US Bureau of Energy Resources foreign affairs officer Matthew Q. Gebert with a series of violent white nationalist identities that have advocated acts of terror within in the USA and have been involved with recruiting for and promoting white nationalist terror organizations.
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J Michael Straczynski’s “Becoming Superman”: a memoir of horrific abuse, war crimes, perseverance, trauma, triumph and doing what’s right
J Michael Straczynski (previously) is known for many things: creating Babylon 5, spectacular runs on flagship comics from Spiderman to Superman, incredibly innovative and weird kids’ TV shows like The Real Ghostbusters, and megahits like Sense8; in the industry he’s known as a writing machine, the kind of guy who can write and produce 22 hours of TV in a single season, and he’s also known as a mensch, whose online outreach to fans during the Babylon 5 years set the bar for how creators and audiences can work together to convince studios to take real chances. But in JMS’s new memoir, Becoming Superman: My Journey From Poverty to Hollywood, we get a look at a real-life history that is by turns horrific and terrifying, and a first-person account of superhuman perseverance and commitment to the right thing that, incredibly, leads to triumph
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Clever hack that will end badly: playing copyrighted music during Nazis rallies so they can’t be posted to Youtube
RJ Jones writes, “My friend gave me a tip! If you need to drown out fascists, bring a speaker & play copyrighted music at their rallies cause it will be easy to report their videos & get them taken down for copyright.”
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Leaked UK military “Extreme Right Wing” checklist: “using the term ‘Islamofascism'”, adding “-istan” to place names
The UK Ministry of Defense has confirmed the authenticity of a leaked copy of its 2017 leaflet, “Extreme Right Wing (XRW) Indicators & Warnings,” provided to senior defense staff to help them identify and root out far-right extremists in the ranks.
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