Der Generalbundesanwalt hat Verfahren um die Neonazi-Gruppe “Atomwaffendivision Deutschland” an sich gezogen. Mutmaßlichen Anhängern werden Morddrohungen gegen Spitzenpolitiker zugeschrieben. Nach Terrordrohungen an Universitäten, im Umfeld des NSU-Gedenkens in Köln und gegen Spitzenpolitiker der Grünen ermittelt nun die Bundesanwaltschaft. Die Behörde hat laut Informationen von t-online mehrere mit der sogenannten “Atomwaffendivision Deutschland” in Zusammenhang stehende Verfahren an sich gezogen. Offenbar geht sie dem Verdacht nach, dass es sich bei den Neonazis um eine Terrorgruppe handeln könnte, die ihren Worten auch Taten folgen lässt. Ein Sprecher des Generalbundesanwalts wollte sich zu den Ermittlungen nicht äußern. Sie verehren Manson und Breivik Die “Atomwaffendivision” gilt als Ableger der gleichnamigen US-Terrorgruppe, deren Mitglieder in den USA bereits fünf Morde verübt haben. Sie propagiert einen Endzeit-Nationalsozialismus, “einen letzten Kampf in Trümmern”. In Bildsprache und Rhetorik erinnert sie damit an islamistische Terrorgruppen wie den IS und al-Qaida. Das gilt auch für die Rekrutierung über das Internet: Gepredigt wird die Strategie autonomer Zellen. Kleingruppen und Einzeltäter sollen zu Morden und anderen schweren Straftaten animiert werden. Verehrt werden Massenmörder wie Charles Manson und Anders Breivik. (…) Aus einem Datenleck dieses Forums hatte t-online Ende 2019 die Spuren des bislang einzigen deutschen Propagandavideos bis zu einem Neonazi nach Eisenach in Thüringen verfolgt. Aus seinem Umfeld führten Verbindungen zu einer Terrorgruppe in Großbritannien, die ebenfalls Kontakte zur “Atomwaffen Division” in den USA unterhält. Direkt nach der Berichterstattung löste sich die Kameradschaft des Eisenachers offiziell auf. Er selbst bestritt öffentlich, mit der “Atomwaffendivision Deutschland” in Verbindung zu stehen. Zuletzt wurde er mit Gesinnungsgenossen im Zuge der Corona-Demos in Berlin bei Ausschreitungen vor der russischen Botschaft festgenommen.
Kontakte von Bundeswehr-Angehörigen in die rechte Szene sorgen immer wieder für Schlagzeilen. Nun wird gegen einen Soldaten aus Neubrandenburg wegen Extremismusverdachts ermittelt. Am Montag haben Polizeiermittler bei Neubrandenburg Wohn- und Büroräume eines 40-jährigen Soldaten wegen Extremismusverdachts durchsucht. Seit den frühen Morgenstunden seien etwa 70 Beamte im Einsatz gewesen, sagte Oberstaatsanwalt Harald Nowack von der für solche Fälle zuständigen Staatsanwaltschaft in Rostock. Er bestätigte damit Berichte des ARD-Politikmagazin „Kontraste” und des Nordkurier. Ein Sprecher des Verteidigungsministeriums sagte: „Wir haben Kenntnis von dem Vorfall.“ Ausgangpunkt seien umfangreiche Ermittlungen des Militärischen Abschirmdienstes (MAD) in enger Kooperation mit dem Verfassungsschutz und Strafverfolgungsbehörden, sagte eine MAD-Sprecherin in Köln dazu. Staatsanwaltschaft: Verdächtige Außerungen des Soldaten als Auslöser Nach Angaben Nowacks wurden Ermittlungen wegen Verdachts der Vorbereitung einer schweren staatsgefährdenden Gewalttat nach § 89 a StGB aufgenommen. Auslöser sei ein Hinweis auf verdächtige Äußerungen des Deutschen gewesen. Der Mann stamme aus der Region und sei bislang keiner Gruppierung zuzuordnen, sagte Nowack. Der 40-Jährige arbeite auch als Selbstständiger im Sicherheitsbereich. (…) Der innenpolitische Sprecher der Linksfraktion im Landtag, Peter Ritter, forderte, die Terrorvorwürfe gegen den Bundeswehrsoldaten schnellstmöglich und umfassend aufzuklären. Dazu gehörten auch laut Medienberichten bestehende Kontakte in extrem rechte Kreise. „Sollten sich die Vorwürfe durch die heutige Durchsuchung erhärten, müssen die Behörden auch ein möglicherweise bestehendes Netzwerk ins Visier nehmen, anstatt erneut voreilig von einem Einzeltäter zu sprechen“, mahnte Ritter. Er verwies zudem darauf, dass die Ermittlungen der Bundesanwaltschaft gegen die beiden Terrorverdächtige aus dem „Nordkreuz“-Netzwerk auch nach drei Jahren nicht abgeschlossen seien. Bei dem Verdächtigen soll es sich um einen aktiven Bundeswehrsoldaten handeln, der in der Tollense-Kaserne in Neubrandenburg stationiert ist. Der Mann soll Kontakte in rechtsextreme Kreise pflegen. Er habe sich den durchsuchenden Beamten gegenüber sehr kooperativ gezeigt, hieß nach den „Kontraste”-Berichten.
siehe auch: Anti-Terror-Einsatz – Es gibt Verbindungen zur Neubrandenburger Kampfszene. Die Polizei hat ein Haus in Sponholz wegen Terrorverdachts durchsucht. Einer der Betroffenen betreibt ein Sicherheitsunternehmen. Es soll Kontakte zur Neubrandenburger „Fight Night” geben. In dem Wohnobjekt in Sponholz bei Neubrandenburg, das rund 70 Ermittler der Polizei aufgrund eines Terrorverdachts seit den Morgenstunden durchsuchen, sollen seit einiger Zeit mehrere Männer wohnen. Sie stehen nach Nordkurier-Informationen im Zusammenhang mit der Neubrandenburger „Fight Night”, einer Kampfsportveranstaltung.; Verbindungen zu Rechtsextremen: Soldat unter Terrorverdacht. In Neubrandenburg hat die Polizei das Haus eines Soldaten durchsucht. Nach taz-Recherchen handelt es sich um einen Kampfsportler. (…) Nach taz-Informationen heißt der Soldat Matthias D., ist 40 Jahre alt und in der Tollense-Kaserne in Neubrandenburg stationiert. Das ist der Standort der Panzergrenadierbrigade 41. Laut einem älteren Lokalzeitungsbericht war er in der Vergangenheit mehrfach in Afghanistan, um dort eine Sondereinheit auszubilden. Laut Nordkurier ist D. aktuell für eine Sicherheitsfirma tätig, die aber nicht auf seinen Namen läuft. (…) Der beschuldigte Matthias D. ist langjähriger Kampfsportler bei einem Rostocker Kampfsportverein, In der Vergangenheit bot D. zudem Selbstverteidigungskurse für Kinder an. Unter dem Namen „Odin“ ist der ehemalige Kickboxweltmeister bei einem jährlich stattfindenden Kampfsportevent des Vereins La Familia Fightclub in Halle an der Saale in den Ring getreten. Unter den Teilnehmenden finden sich auch immer wieder bekannte Rechtsextreme und organisierte Neonazis. D. tritt zudem bei Wettkämpfen für das First Fight Team Neubrandenburg an. Dieses fiel in der Vergangenheit immer wieder aufgrund rechtsradikaler Aktivitäten seiner Mitglieder auf. Cheftrainer des Kampfsportclubs ist Ronny S., auf denselben Nachnamen ist die Sicherheitsfirma in D.s Haus registriert.
A popular website for posts about the conspiracy group QAnon abruptly shut down after a fact-checking group identified the developer as a New Jersey man. Qmap.pub is among the largest websites promoting the QAnon conspiracy, with over 10 million visitors in July, according to web analytics firm SimilarWeb Ltd., and served as the primary archive of QAnon’s posts. The website aggregates posts by Q, the anonymous figure behind the QAnon theory, and the creator of the Qmap.pub website is known online only as “QAppAnon.” The fact-checking site Logically.ai identified Jason Gelinas of New Jersey on Sept. 10 as the “developer and mouthpiece” for the site. New Jersey state records connect QAppAnon to Gelinas’s home address, Bloomberg found. Reached outside his home, Gelinas declined to comment on the Logically report, saying only that someone had sent it to him on Twitter after it was published. “I’m not going to comment on any of that,” Gelinas said when asked if he was behind the website Qmap. “I’m not going to get involved. I want to stay out of it.” Wearing an American flag baseball cap, Gelinas said that QAnon is a “patriotic movement to save the country.” Hours after the initial contact from Bloomberg News, the website was no longer accessible. A LinkedIn profile for Gelinas says he works as an information security analyst at Citigroup. Citigroup declined to comment.
siehe auch: QAnon Key Figure Revealed as Financial Information Security Analyst from New Jersey. A Logically investigation identifies a key QAnon figure as New Jersey resident Jason Gelinas. The investigation ties QAnon properties to a company owned by Gelinas, an information technology specialist who has held prominent positions at both Credit Suisse and Citigroup. Ever since the shadowy figure known as Q made his first appearance on the 4chan imageboard in October of 2017, the author’s identity has remained a mystery. Since then, Q has posted thousands of ‘drops,’ converting legions of followers to the belief that Donald Trump is leading a global fight against a satanic cabal of child trafficking elites, commonly referred to in the QAnon world as the ‘Deep State’. Over the years, Q’s posts would move from the 4chan forum to 8chan, and finally to its later iteration, 8kun. But these forums weren’t where most of Q’s followers would go to access the drops: most would find them neatly compiled on a site called QMap, now the main platform on which Q’s drops are published. For years it was believed that QMap was an endeavour that was independent of both the chan forums and the person or people posting Q’s drops, but recent discoveries concerning an IP address behind QMap raised questions as to whether Jim Watkins, the owner of 8chan and 8kun, an elusive figure in his own right, could also be Q. As some QAnon researchers have pointed out, however, the story of Q’s operations does not end with Jim Watkins. What is QMap? In the world of QAnon, the site qmap.pub is something of a sacred text. It’s a site designed to collect Q’s posts on other message boards and collate them in a searchable database; over the years, it has grown to include glossaries on themes, profiles on people named across the drops (handily sorted into ‘Evil’, ‘Traitor/Pawn’, and ‘Patriot’), and even a prayer wall. Most followers of QAnon tend not to visit Q’s posts on 8kun and the ‘chan’ boards where they are initially posted (the vernacular used on those sites is deliberately exclusionary and newcomers are often put off). This makes qmap.pub a crucial port of call for all QAnon information and a major node in how the movement disseminates its lore. The site has been hitting over 10 million monthly users since April of this year. The developer of QMap has been known only as ‘QAPPANON’ since the launch of the site in May of 2018. They have a successful Patreon where they regularly post and update their following on the running of the website. They pull in over 600 patrons and a $3,320 a month income – although there is a $4,000 a month target for ‘running costs’ of the website. In addition to the website, QMap also had an accompanying app on the Google Play Store (for $2.99) until it was removed in May this year as “harmful content”. The user QAPPANON is synonymous with qmap.pub, acting as its sole developer and mouthpiece.
Grafik bei logically.ai: Relationship between Jason, Armor of God, QAPPANON
Nineteen years ago Friday, attacks by the Islamist terrorist cult Al Qaeda took place on American soil, followed by conspiracy theories that the CIA bombed the World Trade Towers and the Pentagon. These have been thoroughly debunked, but they have still flourished, as Al Qaeda did itself until the U.S. took the threat seriously. Before you dismiss QAnon as another kooky ideology, consider the fact that it’s gaining popularity — and quickly. Now we face another dangerous cult that has inspired political conspiracy theories and could once again do the U.S. homeland damage: QAnon. The shadowy internet-based organization’s followers believe that the world is run by a global cabal of Satan-worshipping pedophiles and child sex traffickers who are plotting against President Donald Trump and his supporters and that only Trump can save us. There is great concern that QAnon might turn violent, particularly if Trump loses the election. According to QAnon, those involved in the plotting include “deep state” government bureaucrats, Democrats and celebrities. QAnon also appears to be spouting Nazi anti-Semitic tropes, and it uses biblical references, as some are convinced that Jewish bankers want to enslave people and incite world wars, evoking an out-and-out Nazi cult. They have recruited anti-vaxxers who are espousing distrust of virus experts like Dr. Anthony Fauci, believe Bill Gates wishes to put chips into people and think 5G cell towers are dangerous. Before you dismiss QAnon as another kooky ideology, consider that it’s gaining popularity — and quickly. There are millions of QAnon (pronounced “KEW-a-non”) adherents in the United States, with entities established in more than 71 countries. And their conspiracy theories have seeped into the political landscape in significant ways. (…) While not all followers are “brainwashed” by all of its beliefs, QAnon is a destructive cult that operates the same way all cults do. That is, QAnon recruiters and proselytizers use deceptive and manipulative tactics to attract people and feed them messages that trigger certain emotions to hook them and indoctrinate them into a new sense of reality. QAnon leaders spread their messages through social media platforms, such as Twitter, Reddit and YouTube. These platforms are able to algorithmically radicalize people who are curious about QAnon using clickbait titles, images, videos and even purported documentaries. According to alternate reality game expert Jim Stewartson, QAnon uses online gaming techniques to entice people down an online rabbit hole, offering them a series of fantasy challenges with hidden code messages called “Q drops” that soon become addictive. By getting involved with QAnon, followers feel they are part of an elite community, which gives them a sense of belonging. That’s a powerful force — but you can work against it if you take the right steps.
Facebook said Saturday it would take down erroneous posts claiming anti-fascist activists have been maliciously sparking wildfires in Oregon and other Western states. The announcement came after multiple organizations, including the Douglas County Sheriff’s Office in Oregon, issued warnings on social media about the false rumors, and another sheriff’s department placed a deputy on leave after he was seen on video suggesting fires were being started by antifa adherents. There is no evidence Oregon’s fires were caused by arson from far-left activists. “We are removing false claims that the wildfires in Oregon were started by certain groups,” Facebook spokesman Andy Stone tweeted. “This is based on confirmation from law enforcement that these rumors are forcing local fire and police agencies to divert resources from fighting the fires and protecting the public.” (…) “Rumors spread just like wildfire and now our 9-1-1 dispatchers and professional staff are being overrun with requests for information and inquiries on an UNTRUE rumor that 6 Antifa members have been arrested for setting fires in DOUGLAS COUNTY, OREGON,” the office said on Facebook Saturday. “THIS IS NOT TRUE!,” it continued. “Unfortunately, people are spreading this rumor and it is causing problems.” A firefighters union in Washington said on Facebook recently that the platform was “an absolute cesspool of misinformation right now.” Facebook’s Stone said the effort to remove such content could save lives.
One of the men has recent links to the Finns Party, while the other reportedly has ties to the Nordic Resistance Movement, Alliance of Nationslists and the Soldiers of Odin vigilante group. Two suspects, both with links to the far-right, and one with ties to the Finns Party, have been detained by police investigating the attempted murder of a Finns Party activist in July. The National Bureau of Investigation NBI says the two men, born in 1981 and 1976, were remanded in custody as part of the pre-trial investigation into the violent attack on Pekka Kataja at his home in Jämsä. Kataja is a Finns Party local councilor and an aide to a Finns Party Member of Parliament, and was left with head injuries and broken ribs after the beating which happened when at least two men showed up at his door claiming to have a delivery for him. Finnish media have named one of the detained suspects as Teemu Torssonen, a Jyväskylä City Councilor and Board Member who had challenged former Finns Party chairman Timo Soini for the leadership of the party back in 2016. (…) The other suspect has been named by Finnish media as as Tero Ala-Tuuhonen, reportedly one of the leaders of the far-right Soldiers of Odin vigilante group, and also connected to the banned neo-Nazi Nordic Resistance Movement. Ala-Tuuhonen is also involved with the far-right Alliance of Nationalists organisation, which has garnered some support from Finns Party MPs; while pictures of an anti-EU rally outside parliament on 1st September, which attracted far-right QAnon conspiracy theorists, show Ala-Tuuhonen posing with at least one Finns Party MP for photographs.
What explains the strange, long life of The Protocols of the Elders of Zion? The modern world’s most consequential conspiracy text was barely noticed when it first appeared in a little-read Russian newspaper in 1903. The message of The Protocols of the Elders of Zion is straightforward, and terrifying: The rise of liberalism had provided Jews with the tools to destroy institutions—the nobility, the church, the sanctity of marriage—whole. Soon, they would take control of the world, as part of a revenge plot dating back to the ascendancy of Christendom. The text, ostensibly narrated by a Jewish leader, describes this plan in detail, relying on centuries-old anti-Jewish tropes, and including lengthy expositions on monetary, media, and electoral manipulation. It announces Jewry’s triumph as imminent: The world order will fall into the hands of a cunning elite, who have schemed forever and are now fated to rule until the end of time. It was a fabrication, and a clumsy one, largely copied from the obscure, French-language political satire Dialogue aux enfers entre Machiavel et Montesquieu, or The Dialogue in Hell Between Machiavelli and Montesquieu, by Maurice Joly. But it has enjoyed a remarkable appeal, despite various attempts to ban it and calls for individuals to denounce it—and now, in our conspiracy-saturated moment, it has decisively reemerged. The book sells widely in Turkey, Syria, and Japan; remains a staple of Russian Orthodox bookshops; and in 2002, was the subject of a long-running Egyptian television series. It is widely available on eBay and on the Barnes & Noble website. The British charity Oxfam sold it on its site until March of this year. When asked by The New York Times in 2018 to name the books at her bedside, Alice Walker listed David Icke’s And the Truth Will Set You Free, a contemporary summary of The Protocols. At a 2019 congressional hearing, the former National Security Council official Fiona Hill described The Protocols’ image of a greedy, devious Jew as “the longest-running anti-Semitic trope we have.” Last week, when an automated Twitter bot managed by the FBI posted a 139-page file containing the text and the agency’s documents on it, hate-filled praise streamed in alongside the replies condemning the tweet for its lack of context. For devotees, The Protocols’ capacity to explain the world remains so resonant that the COVID-19 pandemic has now been blamed on the machinations of the ubiquitous Jewish elders.
