White Nationalists Sought Resumes for Trump White House, Emails Show

Activists linked to the white nationalist hate group VDARE sought resumes to fill out White House administration jobs days after media outlets declared Donald J. Trump the winner of the 2016 election, leaked emails show. The emails further corroborate Hatewatch analysis showing that the extreme far-right fringe of U.S. politics grew bolder due to Trump’s rise in the Republican party and then received unprecedented access to power after he took office. Hatewatch previously reported that both White House senior adviser Stephen Miller and deputy communications director Julia Hahn knew VDARE founder Peter Brimelow before Trump appointed them to positions in his administration at the start of his term. Former Breitbart News editor Katie McHugh, who provided evidence of Miller and Hahn’s connections to the movement, also told Hatewatch about the efforts of VDARE activists to influence the staffing of the administration. As with previous investigations, she leaked email exchanges to back up her claims. One email sent to McHugh on Nov. 10, 2016, shows prominent white nationalist propagandist and longtime VDARE author Kevin DeAnna soliciting resumes, which he claimed to be doing on behalf of VDARE-linked pundit Ann Coulter. Timestamps show DeAnna sent the email two days after the 2016 election. Under the subject line “Administration jobs,” he wrote:
Katie, Ann Coulter asked if you want to get a job in the Administration. She wants names. I mean, you have a better in than me with [Steve] Bannon and all, but it’s something you should consider. Send me a one page resume (boastful as if Ann was writing it, not you) if you can. Great work with everything you did this cycle.. KJD
DeAnna is a far-right extremist and a white nationalist. He has published nearly 2,000 articles for more than half a dozen white nationalist sites under the pseudonyms “James Kirkpatrick” and “Gregory Hood” across the last twelve years, as Hatewatch previously reported. While writing as Gregory Hood in 2018 for the white supremacist website American Renaissance, DeAnna defended the formation of countries built only for white people, writing that “white nationalists are the true defenders of existing nation-states.” Coulter, a fixture in the right-wing media circuit for a generation, emerged as one of Trump’s most high-profile backers early on in the 2016 election cycle. Coulter said her anti-immigrant book “Adios America” influenced Trump’s run for office in an October 2015 interview on a television show aired by a Sinclair Broadcast Group affiliate, claiming Trump read the book “cover to cover” prior to announcing his candidacy.

via splcenter: White Nationalists Sought Resumes for Trump White House, Emails Show

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Romania to Punish Anti-Roma Acts with up to 10 Years in Jail

A landmark law adopted by an overwhelming majority in the Romanian parliament stipulates long prison terms for messages and actions targeting the Roma minority. The Romanian parliament on Tuesday adopted a law that will punish anti-Roma “verbal or physical” actions with prison terms ranging from three months to 10 years. A total of 244 deputies voted for the law, which only one MP rejected. Some 20 legislators abstained and eight did not take part in the vote, according to the Romanian parliament’s website. After Romanian president Klaus Iohannis promulgates the law, it will enter into force after being published in the government gazette. Once this happens, those found guilty of “initiating or constituting an organization of anti-gypsist [sic] character” may can receive jail sentences of up to 10 years. Distributing anti-Roma material or content can send culprits to prison for up to five years, while “promoting in public … anti-gypsist ideas, concepts or doctrines” can be jailed for up to three years. People who join in these crimes might also be deprived of some rights. The so-called law “to prevent and combat anti-gypsyism” defines anti-gypsyism as any “perception regarding the Roma [that is] expressed as hatred against them”, as well as “the verbal or physical manifestations motivated by hatred against Roma” that is directed against members of this ethnic group, their property, their institutions and leaders or their traditions and culture.

via balkan insight: Romania to Punish Anti-Roma Acts with up to 10 Years in Jail

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Anschläge und #Waffenfunde – Die blutige Spur des rechten #Terrors

Der Anschlag von Hanau hat 2020 erneut die tödliche Gefahr durch rassistische Täter gezeigt. Dazu kamen Hinweise auf rechtsextreme Netzwerke bei Polizei und Bundeswehr. Droht zudem ein neuer Terror durch Corona-Leugner? 76 Uzis, AK47, Skorpion-Maschinenpistolen, 100.000 Schuss Munition, Handgranaten und Sprengstoff – die Bilanz der österreichischen Behörden nach einem Waffenfund Anfang Dezember klang eher nach einer umfangreichen Lieferung in ein Kriegsgebiet. Allerdings seien die Waffen angeblich für den Aufbau einer rechtsextremen Miliz in Deutschland bestimmt gewesen, gibt ein Verdächtiger an. Eine Aussage, die Befürchtungen wachsen lässt, dass rechtsextreme Netzwerke in Deutschland weiter aufrüsten. Immer wieder werden Waffen gefunden, zudem tauchen mehrfach Hinweise auf Netzwerke bei Bundeswehr und Polizei auf. Das Parlamentarische Kontrollgremium des Bundestags untersuchte mutmaßliche rechtsextremen Strukturen in der Bundeswehr und stieß dabei auf besorgniserregende Netzwerke und Verbindungen.
Es gehe um Strukturen und Einzelpersonen, so Thomas Hitschler (SPD), “die sich perfekt in der digitalen Welt bewegen und jede Lücke des Systems ausnutzen”. Sie sind darüber hinaus aber auch über berufliche Kontakte verbunden, oder durch Begegnungen auf Waffenbörsen und Schießtrainings. Deutliche Kritik gibt es in diesem Zusammenhang an einem “sehr sorglosen, nicht ordnungsgemäßen Umgang bei der Verwaltung von Schusswaffen und Munition bei der Bundeswehr”. Zehn Tote bei Anschlag in Hanau Zu der Sorge über professionell ausgebildete Soldaten, die sich auf einen “Tag X” – einen Umsturz – vorbereiten, kommen rassistische Einzeltäter, die bislang als unauffällig galten. So wie Tobias R., der am 19. Februar in Hanau zehn Menschen tötete. Der Täter breitete sein krudes Weltbild in einem Pamphlet und Video aus, geprägt ist es von Rassismus, antisemitischen Verschwörungslegenden, aber auch Verachtung von Frauen. Alles ideologische Elemente, die sich bei anderen Attentätern unterschiedlich stark ausgeprägt finden.

via tagesschau: Anschläge und Waffenfunde Die blutige Spur des rechten Terrors

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Angekündigter Rückzug von Initiator Ballweg Wie geht es mit »Querdenken« jetzt weiter?

Michael Ballweg will bis auf Weiteres keine »Querdenken«-Demos mehr anmelden. Doch Experten warnen: Die Bewegung bleibt gefährlich. Der mögliche Rückzug von »Querdenken«-Initiator Michael Ballweg bedeutet nach Einschätzung des Szenekenners Tobias Ginsburg keineswegs das Ende der Bewegung. »Querdenken« steht hinter den Demos gegen die Corona-Schutzmaßnahmen. Gegenüber »Watson« sagte Ginsburg, das Netzwerk der Corona-Leugner sei größer als die Person Ballweg. »Auch wenn Ballweg verschwinden sollte – da warten schon eine ganze Reihe geld- und machtgeile Profiteure und Verschwörungsideologen in ihren Startlöchern.« Ballweg hatte am Donnerstag in einer Videobotschaft mitgeteilt, dass er zunächst keine großen »Querdenken«-Demonstrationen mehr anmelden werde. Mit diesem Rückzug im Winter sollten nach seinem Bekunden angeblich Kräfte für den Frühling gesammelt werden. »Aus diesem Grund werde ich auf Weiteres keine Großdemonstrationen mehr anmelden.« Dies empfehle er auch anderen »Querdenken«-Gruppen in Deutschland. Ballweg rief außerdem dazu auf, das zuvor ergangene Verbot der für den 30. Dezember geplanten Großdemo in Berlin zu akzeptieren.

via spiegel: Angekündigter Rückzug von Initiator Ballweg Wie geht es mit »Querdenken« jetzt weiter?

Alfred Landecker Foundation gave 250 million euros to cause – Family firm with Nazi past funds effort to use AI to detect online anti-Semitism

According to creators of ‘Decoding anti-Semitism,’ a collaborative approach is required to combat anti-Semitism on the Internet. But experts wonder: Is the technology there yet? As social media platforms take steps to block Holocaust denial, an interdisciplinary project is harnessing artificial intelligence (AI) in the battle against online anti-Semitism. “Decoding anti-Semitism” is a collaboration between King’s College London and the Technical University of Berlin’s Center for Research on anti-Semitism. The project is funded by the Alfred Landecker Foundation, which is contributing 250 million euros over 10 years. (…) The newly minted Landecker Foundation’s central mission is to share the history of the Holocaust and fight anti-Semitism, particularly on the Internet. Through the foundation’s “Decoding anti-Semitism” project, an open-source detection tool is being created to align with social media platforms, said lead designer David Allington. (…) “Decoding anti-Semitism” is hardly the first effort to fight hate speech online. In the past few years, dozens of foundations and organizations have attempted to address increases in hate speech against Jews and other groups. “Whatever these organizations are doing, it isn’t working,” said Andreas Eberhardt, founding director and CEO of the Alfred Landecker Foundation. “That is why we have adopted such a collaborative approach and over the coming weeks, months and years the partnership will see discourse analysts, computational linguists and historians come together, combining their expertise for one common goal,” said Eberhardt in an interview with The Times of Israel.

via timesofisrael: Alfred Landecker Foundation gave 250 million euros to cause – Family firm with Nazi past funds effort to use AI to detect online anti-Semitism

#Querdenken: Wenn Ärzte Muffensausen kriegen – #corona #covidioten #gefaelligkeitsattest

Wer wegen einer Erkrankung oder aus psychischen Gründen keine Maske tragen kann, braucht sich seines Attestes nicht zu schämen. Bei Querdenken sieht das anders aus. Schiffmann hatte es vorgemacht: In einem Video (hier, das untere) hatte er daran erinnert, dass seine Atteste zur Befreiung vom Mund-Nase-Bedeckung eigentlich gar nicht zum Vorzeigen gedacht waren. Jetzt zieht Schwurbelanwalt Haintz nach. Lustig, wie auf einmal die Panik umzugehen scheint. Offenbar fürchten eine ganze Zahl niedergelassener Ärzte nun strafrechtliche Ermittlungen, einige scheinen von ihren „Patienten“ die Atteste zurückzufordern. (…) Tatsache ist: Ärzte, die unrichtige Gesundheitszeugnisse/Atteste ausstellen, machen sich strafbar. Deswegen ist es keine Hexenjagd, wenn gegen diese Ärzte vorgegangen wird, sondern die Duchsetzung bestehender Gesetze. Das gilt für den Weikl aus Passau, den Schiffmann und Walter Weber aus Hamburg – der auch schon auf einer Querdenker-Bühne stand – genau wie für jeden anderen Arzt. Niedergelassene Ärzte wissen dies genau. Sie wissen auch, dass sie dies ihre Approbation kosten kann. Und sie wissen, dass diejenigen, die diese unrichtigen Atteste nutzen, sich ebenso strafbar machen.

via anonleaks: Querdenken: Wenn Ärzte Muffensausen kriegen

https://twitter.com/AnonNewsDE/status/1342565052398886912

Trolls and social media platforms face huge fines in Australia for failing to remove abuse material

Australian internet service providers, social media companies and other online platforms will need to remove severely harmful, abusive or bullying content within 24 hours or risk being blocked and fined $555,000 under the federal government’s proposed online safety legislation. Currently, takedown notices for image-based abuse, cyber-abuse, cyberbullying, and seriously harmful online content needs to be actioned within 48 hours. Under the Coalition’s bill, if a website or app ignores takedown notices for content such as child sexual abuse material, the e-safety commissioner will require search engines and app stores to block access to those services. Websites and social media platforms will face fines of up to $555,000 for ignoring a direction to remove the trolling material, while individuals will face fines up to $111,000. These are sanctions already in place for cyberbullying a child, but will be extended to apply to adults.
A rapid website-blocking power has been added to allow the commissioner to respond to online crisis events such as the Christchurch terrorist attacks, by requesting internet service providers block access to terrorist and extremely violent content for a limited time period. As well as substantial new measures to protect adults online, the draft legislation also adds protections for children, expanding the cyberbullying scheme to enable removal of material from online games, websites, messaging and hosting services – rather than just social media. Under strengthened information-gathering powers, the e-safety commissioner would be able to unmask the identities behind anonymous or fake accounts responsible for online abuse or exchanging illegal content. An updated online content scheme would require the industry to do more to keep users safe online through updated industry codes. The federal communications and cyber safety minister, Paul Fletcher, said “these are substantial reforms”. “The internet has brought great social, educational and economic benefits,” he said in a statement on Wednesday. “But just as a small proportion of human interactions go wrong offline, so too are there risks online. By establishing proper protections to help keep Australians safe online, we can in turn help Australians to realise the substantial benefits that come from using the internet.”

via guardian: Trolls and social media platforms face huge fines in Australia for failing to remove abuse material