#Capitol Insurrection Shows How Trends On The Far-Right’s Fringe Have Become Mainstream

Researchers studying the far right have sounded the alarm over the threat posed by the rapid proliferation of conspiracy theories, disinformation and misinformation for years, noting that shifts in the extreme right’s mobilization tactics could present new challenges to stemming a tide of violence. The far-right insurrection on the U.S. Capitol building in Washington, D.C., which took place on the afternoon of Jan. 6 and has resulted in five deaths and a slew of arrests, represents a transition in far-right communities away from traditional organizational structures and toward diffuse systems of decentralized radicalization. The Southern Poverty Law Center and others have tracked the presence of numerous organized hate and antigovernment groups on the ground in the runup to and during the Jan. 6 attack. Among them were the far-right, street-fighting group the Proud Boys; a variety of antigovernment groups, such as the Oath Keepers, the Sons of Liberty NJ and the Last Sons of Liberty; extremist podcasters such as Nick Fuentes, Tim Gionet aka “Baked Alaska” and Vincent James Foxx of the Red Elephants; and at least one representative of a New England-based chapter of the neo-Nazi Nationalist Social Club. But in the siege’s wake, another alarming trend has also emerged. That is, in contrast to other major instances of far-right violence, many of those arrested for their involvement were not members of a specific hate or antigovernment group.

via splc: Capitol Insurrection Shows How Trends On The Far-Right’s Fringe Have Become Mainstream

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What is the United Universal Fellowship of Faith?

The United Universal Fellowship of Faith is a front for predatory white nationalists active in the Atlanta property market. We have previously discussed white nationalist involvement in Atlanta real estate and gentrification, but until now had not covered the “Fellowship”. On December 30, 2019, metro Atlanta racist, Jared Huggins – a member of the now-defunct white nationalist American Identity Movement (AmIM, previously Identity Evropa, IE) – received a vacant lot on Bankhead Highway from the “United Universal Fellowship of Faith” (UUFF). The Fulton County property has been appraised at over $400,000. The deed that transferred the property to Huggins was witnessed by another AmIM/IE militant, Patrick Nelson Sharp, and was notarized by antisemite John Legrand Weatherman, whom we have also discussed previously. The deed for the Bankhead Highway transfer states that Huggins received the property for “one thousand dollars […] and other valuable consideration,” so Huggins may have paid less than market value for the property. Two trustees for UUFF, “A.M. Davies” and “C.J. Harper”, provided signatures authorizing the property transfer. “A.M. Davies” is UK far-Right activist Adrian Michael Davies, a lawyer frequently used by Holocaust-deniers. UUFF has extensive property holdings in Fulton County. In 2016, local alt-paper, Creative Loafing, exposed Adrian Davies’ role as trust administrator for the Beltem Trust, which the paper identified as then owning approximately 20 properties in the Vine City/English Avenue area, as well as other lots throughout the city. A search for The Beltem Trust on Fulton County Board of Assessors site lists roughly the same number of properties (48) as UUFF (47). While some of these records may be outdated, it is clear Adrian Davies’ interests in Atlanta are far from limited to The Beltem Trust. According to the Board of Assessors results, UUFF owns properties in several West Atlanta neighborhoods – for example English Avenue and Westview – as well as elsewhere in the city. (…) With this documentation, we have shown another trust involving London far-Right barrister Adrian Davies that is active in the Atlanta property market. The United Universal Fellowship of Faith owns approximately the same number of properties as Davies’ Beltem Trust, which was exposed by alt-paper Creative Loafing in 2016. Last year’s property transfer from UUFF to white-nationalist Jared Alexander Huggins highlights that UUFF is closely aligned with racist leader Sam Dickson’s broader network in Atlanta. Our research into UUFF led us to John Michael Broadwell, who is currently in Fayetteville, Tennessee. Broadwell owns the address provided on much of UUFF’s paperwork. As well as his activity as an alternative health marketer, Broadwell has historic ties to Sam Dickson and knows another major suit-and-tie racist, Martin K. O’Toole. Our documentation suggests that Broadwell may be the same person as UUFF trustee “CJ Harper”, or is otherwise closely tied to him. We will update this article if further information on “Harper” comes to light. By exposing UUFF as another face of the organized far-Right that is active in Atlanta property and gentrification, we hope to provide a resource for those in Black and multiracial working-class neighborhoods targeted by “Right-wing gentrification gangs.” UUFF’s name obscures its purpose. It is important to highlight the actual function of this so-called “Fellowship”: as a potential funding source for the far-Right, operating alongside Sam Dickson’s broader network. We hope that now the problem has been identified, neighbors can think of how to creatively respond.

via atlantaantifa: What is the United Universal Fellowship of Faith?

Capitol Riot Puts Spotlight on ‘Apocalyptically Minded’ Global Far Right

Leaderless but united by racist ideology that has been supercharged by social media, extremists have built a web of real and online connections that worry officials. When insurrectionists stormed the Capitol in Washington this month, far-right extremists across the Atlantic cheered. Jürgen Elsässer, the editor of Germany’s most prominent far-right magazine, was watching live from his couch. “We were following it like a soccer match,” he said. Four months earlier, Mr. Elsässer had attended a march in Berlin, where a breakaway mob of far-right protesters tried — and failed — to force their way into the building that houses Germany’s Parliament. The parallel was not lost on him. “The fact that they actually made it inside raised hopes that there is a plan,” he said. “It was clear that this was something bigger.” And it is. Adherents of racist far-right movements around the world share more than a common cause. German extremists have traveled to the United States for sniper competitions. American neo-Nazis have visited counterparts in Europe. Militants from different countries bond in training camps from Russia and Ukraine to South Africa. For years far-right extremists traded ideology and inspiration on societies’ fringes and in the deepest realms of the internet. Now, the events of Jan. 6 at the U.S. Capitol have laid bare their violent potential. (…) Extremists are animated by the same conspiracy theories and narratives of “white genocide” and “the great replacement” of European populations by immigrants, the report concluded. They roam the same online spaces and also meet in person at far-right music festivals, mixed martial arts events and far-right rallies. “The neo-Nazi scenes are well-connected,” said Mr. Kramer, the German intelligence official. “We’re not just talking about likes on Facebook. We’re talking about neo-Nazis traveling, meeting each other, celebrating together.” The training camps have caused anxiety among intelligence and law enforcement officials, who worry that such activity could lay the groundwork for more organized and deliberate violence. Two white nationalists, who attended a paramilitary camp run by the extremist Russian Imperial Movement outside of St. Petersburg, were later accused by Swedish prosecutors of plotting bombings aimed at asylum seekers. Last year, the United States State Department designated the Russian Imperial Movement a terrorist organization, the first white nationalist group to receive the label.

via nytimes: Capitol Riot Puts Spotlight on ‘Apocalyptically Minded’ Global Far Right

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Datenanalyse von CORRECTIV.Faktencheck: Facebook und Youtube sind die wichtigsten Plattformen für Falschinformationen

Wo begegnen den Menschen Falschinformationen im Internet, und auf welchen Wegen verbreiten sie diese weiter? Eine Auswertung von Daten aus unserem CrowdNewsroom für das Jahr 2020 zeigt, welche Rolle die großen Tech-Firmen spielen. Facebook und Youtube sind die Plattformen, auf denen im Jahr 2020 am meisten potenzielle Falschinformationen verbreitet wurden. Das zeigt eine Analyse von Nutzerdaten des CrowdNewsrooms von CORRECTIV.Faktencheck. (…) Eine erste Analyse der Daten im Mai zeigte, dass Nutzer fragwürdige Informationen zu Covid-19 damals vor allem auf Youtube fanden und sie über den Messengerdienst Whatsapp verbreiteten. Eine zweite Auswertung aller Daten bis Dezember ergibt jedoch ein etwas anderes Bild. Von März bis Dezember 2020 erreichten uns im CrowdNewsroom rund 4.000 Hinweise aus ganz Deutschland. Über diesen Zeitraum hat Facebook bei der Verbreitung von potenziellen Falschinformationen an Relevanz gewonnen. Und das, obwohl das Soziale Netzwerk in Deutschland Umfragen zufolge im Vergleich mit anderen Plattformen weniger genutzt wurde als noch 2019. Unsere Daten sind nicht repräsentativ. Verzerrungen sind möglich, unter anderem weil theoretisch dieselbe Person dutzende Beiträge im CrowdNewsroom einreichen kann. Die Analyse zeigt vor allem, welche Plattformen die Leserinnen und Leser von CORRECTIV.Faktencheck nutzen. Die Meldungen basieren zudem auf subjektiven Einschätzungen der Menschen, welche Informationen falsch sein könnten. Es handelt sich also nicht zwingend immer um Fakes. Dennoch können die Meldungen einen Einblick in Trends geben – zum Beispiel, wo im Internet Menschen mit Informationen konfrontiert sind, die sie für fragwürdig halten.

via correctiv: Datenanalyse von CORRECTIV.Faktencheck: Facebook und Youtube sind die wichtigsten Plattformen für Falschinformationen

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Feds: Oakdale man stormed Capitol with baseball bat, stole chair

An Oakdale man climbed through a broken window of the U.S. Capitol building during a Washington, D.C., riot earlier this month, taking a chair from inside and attempting to smash a window with a baseball bat, according to federal charges filed Tuesday. Jorden Mink, 27, faces a half-dozen charges including destruction of government property and theft of government property. A second Western Pennsylvania man — Matthew Perna, 36, of Sharon — is charged with entering a restricted building and disorderly conduct on Capitol grounds. The deadly riots Jan. 6 saw thousands of Trump supporters descend on the Capitol during a joint session of Congress to affirm Joe Biden’s presidential election victory. Five people died in the unrest: a Capitol Police officer, a rioter shot by police trying to climb through a shattered door and three others who suffered medical emergencies. (…) Authorities said they used Mink’s neck and finger tattoos to confirm his identity in the footage, which allegedly showed him using a baseball bat to shatter a window. Footage also allegedly showed Mink climbing through a broken window into the Capitol building, grabbing a chair and passing it to the crowd outside, according to the complaint. Authorities searched Mink’s social media accounts and found a photo he’d posted of himself at the Lincoln Memorial on Jan. 3, according to the complaint. On Nov. 3, Election Day, authorities said he posted a photo of himself holding a firearm with an “I Voted” sticker on it with the caption, “The ballot is stronger than the bullet,” attributing the quote to Abraham Lincoln. The caption continued: “Well … my magazines will be fully loaded just in case it’s not.”

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Biden could curb right-wing extremism with one weird trick: Ending the U.S. ‘forever war’

Air Force veteran Ashli Babbitt survived stints in Iraq and Afghanistan, where she helped guard military bases at the peak of America’s wars in those regions in the mid-to-late 2000s. Instead, she lost her life fighting her own government in the corridors of the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6 — gunned down by a Capitol Police officer at the front of a crowd trying to smash toward the nearby House chamber and prevent the counting of 2020 Electoral College votes that would make Joe Biden president. Seconds before the fatal shot, a video captured her compatriots smashing a window and shouting, “We don’t want to hurt no one, we just want to go inside.” Babbitt’s death came at the end of what her friends and family described as a descent into a rabbit hole of right-wing extremism and conspiracy theories that began not long after her 14 years of military service ended, while she struggled to make it as the small-business owner of a pool cleaning service, which a sign proclaimed as “a mask-free zone” in the time of coronavirus. On the last full day of her life, Babbitt wrote on Twitter in the apocalyptic language of the QAnon conspiracy theory that believes a “Deep State” sex-trafficking cabal has corrupted America, proclaiming: “Nothing will stop us. They can try and try and try but the storm is here and it is descending upon DC in less than 24 hours … dark to light!” (…) Babbitt was far from the only disillusioned U.S. military vet drawn to the insurrection at the Capitol. She was joined by the likes of a retired Air Force lieutenant colonel, Larry Randall Brock Jr., who’d served as a flight commander in Afghanistan and now was captured on video on the floor of the U.S. Senate in a combat helmet and full tactical gear, carrying zip-tie handcuffs. Like Babbitt, friends said they watched Brock become increasingly radicalized in his support of Donald Trump and his political movement. Family members told the New Yorker’s Ronan Farrow that the Air Force remained central to Brock’s identity and, as one said, “He used to tell me that I only saw the world in shades of gray, and that the world was black and white.”

via inquirer: Biden could curb right-wing extremism with one weird trick: Ending the U.S. ‘forever war’

Dr. Joseph #Mercola – Der Arzt, dem die #Querdenker vertrauen – #covidioten #verschwörungsideologie

In scheinbar wissenschaftlich fundierten Abhandlungen behauptet der US-Arzt Joseph Mercola, dass die Impfung gegen Covid-19 das Immunsystem schädigen könne. In den USA gilt Mercola als skrupelloser Geschäftemacher, der bereits mehrfach wegen irreführender Behauptungen mit hohen Geldstrafen belegt wurde. Die Falschinformationen des „Alternativmediziners“ erreichen über ein russisches Fake-News-Portal auch deutsche Impfgegner – und tragen zur Radikalisierung der Szene bei. „Riesenskandal aufgedeckt: Covid-19-Impfung zerstört unser Immunsystem nachhaltig“ lautet die reißerische Überschrift eines „medizinischen Fachartikels“, der erstmals im November vergangenen Jahres in deutscher Sprache auf der in Russland gehosteten Website „Anonymousnews“ erschien. Von dort aus verbreitete sich der Text rasant in den deutschsprachigen Ländern, wurde von Querdenkern vielfach bei Facebook, Twitter, Telegram, oder in E-Mails geteilt und erschien zudem im Querdenker-Portal „2020news“. (…) In den USA ist der 66-jährige Mercola kein Unbekannter. Seit Jahrzehnten agiert der publicityerfahrene Osteopath als einer der schärfsten Kritiker des anerkannten Gesundheitssystems. Laut „Washington Post“ unterstützt der vermögende Unternehmer zudem die Anti-Impf-Bewegung in den USA mit Millionenbeträgen. Doch viele der von ihm selbst empfohlenen „Heilmethoden“ sind mehr als fragwürdig: So bot er etwa über seine Website Wärmebildkameras zum Kauf an, wie sie in der Gebäudetechnik zum Einsatz kommen. Damit sei die Früherkennung von Brustkrebs „präziser möglich als durch eine herkömmliche Mammographie“, behauptete Mercola. Die angesehene American Cancer Society widersprach Mercola in aller Deutlichkeit: Die Wirksamkeit eines Thermografie-Screenings zur Früherkennung von Brustkrebs sei durch keine einzige Studie bewiesen. Die US-Behörde für Lebens- und Arzneimittel (FDA) stoppte schließlich den Verkauf der Geräte, da die Gefahr bestand, dass krebsgefährdete Frauen sich in falscher Sicherheit wiegen (…) Mehrfach offerierte der geschäftstüchtige Arzt im Internet von ihm selbst angemischte Mixturen, die wahre Wunder versprachen: ein Leben ohne Krebs, Herz-Kreislauf-Erkrankungen, Diabetes oder Infektionskrankheiten wie Covid-19. Dutzende Male mussten die Behörden aufgrund falscher Werbeversprechen einschreiten. Doch davon ließ sich der einfallsreiche Doktor nicht aufhalten. Bereits 2017 gab er sein Vermögen in einer eidesstattlichen Erklärung mit rund 100 Millionen US-Dollar an – genug, um die von den zuständigen Behörden verhängten Geldstrafen aus der Portokasse zu begleichen (…) it einem Geflecht aus digitalen Ratgebertexten, Produktionsstätten und Handelsfirmen, die er von seiner Luxusvilla in Cape Coral im US-Bundesstaat Florida – nicht weit vom Anwesen Donald Trumps – steuert, gehört Mercola zweifellos zu den erfolgreichsten Vermarktern sogenannter „alternativer“ Heil- und Lifestyleprodukte weltweit. Auch die Corona-Pandemie beschert dem Naturheiltycoon große Aufmerksamkeit und kurbelt das lukrative Geschäft mit zahlreichen fragwürdigen Gesundheitstipps und Mittelchen weiter an: So empfiehlt Mercola auf seiner Webseite etwa die Selbstbehandlung mit der aggressiven Bleiche Wasserstoffperoxid, die eigentlich zur Desinfektion von Oberflächen gedacht ist. Dabei beruft sich der Alternativheiler auf angeblich „gute Erfahrungen“, die deutsche Ärzte während des Naziregimes beim Einträufeln des ätzenden Stoffs in den Gehörgang von Grippekranken gemacht hätten.

via rnd: Dr. Joseph Mercola – Der Arzt, dem die Querdenker vertrauen

siehe auch: wikipedia: Joseph Mercola. Joseph Michael Mercola (/mərˈkoʊlə/;[1] born July 8, 1954) is an American alternative medicine proponent, osteopathic physician, and Internet business person. (…) Mercola’s medical claims have been criticized by the medical, scientific, regulatory, and business communities. A 2006 BusinessWeek editorial stated his marketing practices relied on “slick promotion, clever use of information, and scare tactics.”[4] In 2005, 2006, and 2011, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration warned Mercola and his company that they were making illegal claims for their products’ ability to detect, prevent, and treat disease.[8] The medical watchdog site Quackwatch has criticized Mercola for making “unsubstantiated claims [that] clash with those of leading medical and public health organizations and many unsubstantiated recommendations for dietary supplements.”[9] Of Mercola’s marketing techniques, oncology surgeon David Gorski says it “mixes the boring, sensible health advice with pseudoscientific advice in such a way that it’s hard for someone without a medical background to figure out which is which.”[10]

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