Jacob Hersant, 25, performed the nationally banned gesture six days after its criminalization. A man found guilty in Australia for violating a law passed last year prohibiting public use of the Nazi salute will go to prison for an undetermined length of time. Following his conviction on Tuesday, Jacob Hersant, 25, learned at a sentencing hearing on Wednesday that he would spend time in jail, though Magistrate Brett Sonnet still must decide for how long. The self-described neo-Nazi will remain on bail until another hearing on Nov. 8. Hersant, the first Australian convicted under the new law, said after the guilty verdict: “I do give the Nazi salute, and I am a Nazi.” He performed the gesture in front of news cameras at a Victoria County Court on Oct. 27, 2023, where he had appeared on a different charge.
Im Fall des erfundenen Macheten-Überfalls auf einen Chemnitzer Neonazi im Stadtpark beginnt im November der Prozess gegen seinen Komplizen. Das teilte die Staatsanwaltschaft mit. Laut Anklage sollte der Bekannte dem 29-Jährigen in beiderseitigem Einvernehmen die linke Hand abtrennen, schlug aber daneben und erwischte nur drei Finger. Mit der Behinderung habe das Opfer staatliche Leistungen kassieren wollen.
In the space of a few months, the multi-billionaire seems to have partly tied his fate, and the future of his companies such as Tesla, to the outcome of the US presidential election. “If Trump loses, I’m fucked.” With his usual blend of provocation, paranoia and candor, this is how Elon Musk summed up his situation just a few weeks before the US presidential election. In an interview with former Fox News anchor Tucker Carlson broadcast on Monday, October 7, his phrase illustrates the new state of affairs. Since it was bought by the billionaire in October 2022, the social media network Twitter has changed a great deal, right down to its name – now X. The multi-billionaire himself has also completed a major, highly politicized transformation: Since July, he openly supports Donald Trump. Musk’s account on X has become one of the campaign’s main mouthpieces. It’s where he delivers a daily dose of ultraconservative language and insults to Kamala Harris, who he regularly describes as an extremist or communist. Day after day, Musk also repeats a conspiracy theory claiming that the Democrats are “importing” illegal immigrants into key voting states to manipulate the elections. In yet another unusual step, Musk appeared on stage alongside Trump at a rally on October 5. In the space of a few months, Musk seems to have partly tied his fate, and the future of his companies, to the outcome of the presidential election. If Trump is elected, Musk could enjoy enhanced power
Barack Obama laid into fellow former President Donald Trump so thoroughly on Thursday that more than one X user quipped, “I’d like to report a murder.“ Obama, speaking at a rally in Pittsburgh, ticked off a long list of reasons why voters should reject Trump and vote for Democratic nominee Kamala Harris next month. He disparaged “the constant attempts to sell you stuff” including gold sneakers, a $100,000 watch and the Trump Bible. “Who does that?” asked Obama with an incredulous shrug. “You know, he wants you to buy the word of God, Donald Trump edition. Got his name right there next to Matthew and Luke,” he said of Trump’s “God Bless the USA Bibles,” which, it was reported this week, were printed in China. They are priced at $59.99 each. The 44th president continued to blast the 45th, recalling his shock at finding out how much diapers cost after his oldest daughter Malia was born. “Do you think Donald Trump ever changed a diaper?,” he asked about the father of five. One attendee shouted, “His own!” Obama admitted with a laugh, “I almost said that, but I decided I should not say it.” Trump was dubbed “Diaper Don” by the media in 2020 over reports that he wore adult diapers while filming the reality competition “The Apprentice.” Trump supporters not only shrugged at the suggestion when it resurfaced during Trump’s tax fraud trial earlier this year, but proudly began wearing the absorbent underwear themselves at campaign events and carrying signs that read “real men wear diapers.”
siehe auch: Obama tells Black men it’s ‘not acceptable’ to sit out election. Former President Barack Obama on Thursday admonished Black men who are hesitating to back Vice President Kamala Harris’ presidential campaign, telling them it’s “not acceptable” to sit out this election and suggesting they might be reluctant to vote for Harris because she’s a woman. The striking comments by Obama, made to a small group of voters in a surprise stop at a local Harris campaign office in Pittsburgh, were part of a more forceful campaign message delivered by the former president on Thursday as polls continue to show a neck-and-neck race. At a rally in the city later that evening, Obama issued some of his most searing public criticisms of his successor to date. The lack of energy some see around Harris’ campaign, Obama first told the smaller group, “seems to be more pronounced with the brothers.” “You’re thinking about sitting out or supporting somebody (in former president Donald Trump) who has a history of denigrating you, because you think that’s a sign of strength, because that’s what being a man is? Putting women down?” Obama said. “That’s not acceptable.” The problem, he suggested, was less complicated than some are making it out to be – and that it often comes down to sexism.
The horrific scenes of destruction in the wake of Hurricane Helene are being exacerbated by a massive coordinated right wing misinformation and disinformation campaign. Far right media outlets, politicians, and ‘influencers’ are pushing bogus claims of refugee and migrant linked FEMA funding shortages, donation seizures, and eminent domain land grabs. Georgia Congressional Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene, who has previously blamed California wildfires on Jewish space lasers, is making bat-shit public claims that ‘they’ can manipulate weather, and are using these powers to influence the upcoming presidential election. Infowars host Alex Jones’ brings similar accusations a little closer to home alleging the Pentagon having ‘dozens of giant weather control platforms’ aimed directly at the United States. X.com owner and richest man-child in the world Elon Musk has not only let his social media network be overrun with confusing and conflicting disinformation, he is personally disseminating false claims to his 200 million followers. Bad actors can also be found on the ground with a variety of violent fascist and neo-Nazi groups including chapters of the Proud Boys, Patriot Front, American Blackshirts Movement, and various regional ‘Active Clubs’ attempting to co-opt the tragedy for recruitment and propaganda purposes. All of these groups are, to varying degrees, acting as de-facto far-right militias or freikorps styled vigilante fighting groups. Many of the Proud Boys leadership are currently serving long prison sentences for sedition and other serious crimes committed during the January 6th, 2021 insurrection. The Active Clubs, Patriot Front, and various other more openly neo-Nazi groups are actively conducting paramilitary and martial arts training in furtherance of an imagined race war that will bring about an end to civil society and enable them to establish an all-white ethno-state.
Former KKK members, the founder of the antisemitic Goyim Defense League, and a QAnon promoter are all advising Irish far-right communities, which are increasingly looking to the US for inspiration. The claims could have been taken word-for-word from any one of numerous US far-right websites in recent months. “Reports are surfacing suggesting that [lawmakers] may have been involved in transporting large numbers of refugees and immigration applicants to polling stations to secure votes for individual candidates,” the author of the article claimed. This wasn’t a conspiracist asserting that Honduran migrants are being imported into the US to replace swing-state Republican voters, though; the claim came from a website called The Irish Channel. A new report published on Tuesday by researchers at the Institute for Strategic Dialogue outlines how the website has used generative AI to create articles that have been “heavily influenced by similar election denial efforts in the US.” (…) In July, the Irish Times reported that Frank Silva, a prominent member of the Los Angeles branch of the Ku Klux Klan in the 1980s as well as the violent neo-Nazi group The Order, had joined at least five online calls with members of Ireland’s far-right community. During the calls, Silva reportedly offered advice to those taking part in anti-immigrant protests, including tips on how to make their content go viral and how to handle interactions with police.
“In July, the Irish Times reported that Frank Silva, a prominent member of …the violent neo-Nazi group The Order, had joined at least five online calls with members of Ireland’s far-right community.” https://t.co/NOkWMCvFWQ
Republicans denounce comparison of 27 October event to notorious 1939 rally made by Democrats and Jewish leaders. Donald Trump’s decision to hold a rally in the heart of Manhattan on 27 October, nine days before election day, has been slammed by New York Democrats, with one comparing the booking to an infamous Nazi rally held at the same venue in the lead-up to the second world war. But it has also triggered a backlash to such sentiments, with Republicans saying such rhetoric heightens tensions even more in a presidential election campaign which has already seen two attempts on Trump’s life. The Democratic state senator Brad Hoylman-Sigal, whose district includes much of the west side of Manhattan where a date on Trump’s “arena tour” rally has been booked at Madison Square Garden, called on venue owners to cancel the event. “Let’s be clear,” Hoylman-Sigal wrote on X. “Allowing Trump to hold an event at MSG is equivalent to the infamous Nazis rally at Madison Square Garden on February 20, 1939.” Hoylman-Sigal was referring to a pro-Hitler rally, organized by the German American Bund, that was attended by more than 20,000 people and featured a portrait of George Washington flanked by swastikas. Many attendees came from Yaphank, Long Island, where the Bund was headquartered and had a summer camp teaching Nazi ideology.
