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Recordings of over 100 people, including the hate group’s leader Rinaldo Nazzaro, reveal their recruiting tactics and plots The latest episode of the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC)’s podcast Sounds Like Hate published today with exclusive and never-before-heard recordings from a neo-Nazi white supremacist group, The Base. Titled Baseless, this three-part story takes listeners through 83 hours of secret recordings as 100 men apply for membership into The Base, revealing the group’s recruiting tactics, violent plots and efforts to avoid law enforcement. “We want things to accelerate, we want things to get worse in the United States,” said Rinaldo Nazzaro, the leader of The Base in the recordings. “And from that point by virtue of the chaos that ensues, that would naturally present some opportunities for us … law and order starts breaking down, power vacuums start emerging…for those who are organized and ready, to take advantage of those.” The analysis of these recordings used machine learning to find patterns in what was said. According to podcast producer and co-host Geraldine Moriba, “there’s nothing coded here. These are expressions of malcontentment with a real goal to destroy our nation. Little did I know when I agreed to investigate these stories the president would tell white supremacists to ‘stand back and stand by,’ and they would be emboldened to the point of openly pursuing their accelerationist plans.” Listen to the latest episode, Baseless, of the Sounds Like Hate podcast. SPLC Senior Analyst Cassie Miller, who has also listened to some of the recordings herself and is featured in the series, adds: “That kind of violence … is very much the core strategy that defines the group. It’s something that they really don’t talk about very often on their calls because they’re worried about being implicated with incitement. The really remarkable thing about that moment in the call is that they actually go on to explain this strategy to this potential recruit.”

via splcenter: EXCLUSIVE: SPLC Podcast Reveals Secret Recordings from Neo-Nazi White Supremacist Group, The Base

siehe auch: Violent neo-Nazis recruit former soldiers for doomsday prep: report. A violent, neo-Nazi group called The Base is recruiting current and former U.S. soldiers — and is planning a military response to what it believes will be the collapse of society, according to a new report. “Our mission’s very, very simple. It is training and networking, preparing for collapse,” the white supremacist group’s leader, Rinaldo Nazzaro, was taped telling prospective recruits in an audio recording obtained by the Southern Poverty Law Center. “We want to be in a position where we’re ready, we’re prepared enough, ready enough that we can take advantage of whatever chaos, power vacuum, that might emerge,” he tells the prospects, NBC News reports of the SPLC’s chilling tapes. “We want to try and fill that power vacuum and take advantage of the chaos.” The SPLC, which monitors hate groups, has amassed 80 hours of tapes involving the white supremacist group and its leader, Nazzaro, NBC says. On the tapes, the U.S.-born Nazzaro says he runs the group from an apartment in St. Petersburg, Russia, where he lives with his Russia-born wife — raising the potential of foreign influence, NBC says. On the tapes — recorded starting in November 2018 — 20 percent of more than 100 prospective recruits to The Base said they were active-duty military or had served in the military in some capacity; Secret recordings of neo-Nazi terror network The Base ‘show the group actively recruiting US military members as they prepare for the “impending collapse” of US society and the coming race war‘. The Base is collective of hardcore neo-Nazis operating as a paramilitary group They want people with military expertise for ‘the collapse of society’ More than 80 hours of audio forms part of a new podcast on the group It shows that 20% of those approached were active-duty military or veterans 80% of the tapes are said to include chats on guns and the collapse of the US Included in the tapes is also said to be alleged leader Rinaldo Nazzaro. (…) Senior intelligence analyst Mollie Saltskog said: ‘Extremely lethal and dangerous operations that believe in an impending race war like The Base or Atomwaffen make a concerted effort to recruit people with military experience. ‘Having these types of people in these types of organizations increases their operational capabilities to commit acts of terrorism.’
Included in the tapes is said to be alleged leader Rinaldo Nazzaro. He says: ‘We want things to accelerate, we want things to get worse in the United States’ Included in the tapes is said to be alleged leader Rinaldo Nazzaro. He says: ‘We want things to accelerate, we want things to get worse in the United States’ Organizers of The Base recruit fellow white supremacists online — particularly seeking out veterans because of their military training — using encrypted chat rooms and training members in military-style camps in the woods, according to experts who track extremist groups. The group, which has the motto ‘learn, train, fight,’ brings together white supremacists with varying ideologies. In January The Guardian identified Nazzaro, 46, as the real name of the ringleader who launched the group in 2018, and who also goes by the aliases Norman Spear and Roman Wolf. The outlet reported that Nazzaro previously lived in Midtown Manhattan and New Jersey, but is currently believed to be in Russia, living with his Russian wife that he married in 2012 in New York City. The man identified as Nazzaro says in the tapes: ‘We are survivalism, a self-defense network. Our mission’s very, very simple. It is training and networking, preparing for collapse. ‘We want to be in a position where we’re ready, we’re prepared enough, ready enough that we can take advantage of whatever chaos, power vacuum, that might emerge. ‘We want to try and fill that power vacuum and take advantage of the chaos.’ He adds: ‘What people decide to do outside The Base with that training and contacts they make is their business. We don’t really need to know about it. I mean, sure, it’s kind of better that we don’t for everyone’s sake and for everyone’s success.’ In encrypted chat rooms, members of The Base have discussed committing acts of violence against blacks and Jews, ways to make improvised explosive devices and their desire to create a white ‘ethno-state,’ the FBI has said in court papers.

siehe auch: Sounds Like Hate is an audio documentary series about the dangers and peril of everyday people who engage in extremism, and ways to disengage them from a life of hatred. Sounds Like Hate is a new podcast from the Southern Poverty Law Center that focuses on the stories of people and communities grappling with hate and searching for solutions. Each two-part episode, divided into 40-minute parts, takes a deep dive into the realities of hate in modern America: how it functions, how it spreads, who is affected and what people are doing about it. These are human stories. You will meet people who have been personally touched by hate, hear their voices and be immersed in the sounds of their world. You will learn about the power of people to change – or to succumb to their worst instincts. And you will hear about ways that people across the country are becoming change agents in their own communities.

Nach Recherchen von Belltower.News stehen die Hausdurchsuchungen in Hessen am gestrigen Mittwoch im engen Zusammenhang mit der Gründung einer international vernetzten rechtsextremen Gruppe. Während in Nordrhein-Westfalen eine rechtsextreme Gruppe innerhalb der Polizei für Aufsehen sorgt (vgl. Belltower.News), wurden nahezu zeitgleich am Mittwochmorgen in Hessen sechs Wohnungen durchsucht. Das Innenministerium spricht in einer Pressemitteilung von Personen, die „bereits im Bereich der politisch motivierten Kriminalität rechts aufgefallen waren“. Chatverläufe, die Belltower.News vorliegen, erhärten nun den Verdacht eines online organisierten rechtsextremen Netzwerkes, das über die Grenzen Deutschlands hinaus aktiv ist. Der Verdächtige einer Hausdurchsuchung soll zu einer rechtsextremen Gruppe gehören, die sich „NSC 131“ nennt. Die Chiffre „NSC“ steht für „Nationalist Social Club“ und „131“ für die Buchstaben „ACA“, was als Zahlencode so viel wie „Anti-Communist-Action“ bedeuten soll. Die Gruppe “NSC 131” hat sich Anfang diesen Jahres (2020) gegründet. Ihre Mitglieder sind teilweise ehemalige Mitglieder rechtsterroristischer Gruppen wie „The Base“ (vgl. The Guardian), die Terroranschläge planten, um einen „Rassekrieg“ loszutreten, oder von „Combat18“, dem militärische Arm des verbotenen „Blood&Honor“-Netzwerkes, das auch in Deutschland aktiv ist. „NSC 131“ rekrutiert in den USA zahlreiche neue Mitglieder und inszeniert sich als Schutzgruppe für „Weiße“. Die Mitglieder posten Fotos, auf denen sie mit Hitlergrüßen, Waffen und eigenem Merchandise posieren. Mittlerweile haben sich weitere Ableger in den USA geformt, die stetig anwachsen. Das größte Rekrutierungsmedium dieser Struktur scheinen Chat-Gruppen zu sein. Am 20. August 2020 wurde in dem Infokanal der Gruppe ein Bild gepostet, das den Aufbau einer „NSC 131“-Gruppe in Deutschland nahelegte. (…) Welche Gefahr von dieser Gruppe ausgeht, zeigt sich in den Beschlagnahmungen der Hausdurchsuchung. In der Pressemitteilung der Polizei heißt es, es seien „Waffen und NS-Devotionalien” sichergestellt worden und die zuständige Ermittlungseinheit „Besondere Aufbauorgnaisation (BAO) Hessen” übernehme „auch Verfahren wegen des Verdachts des illegalen Waffenbesitzes, die immer wieder auch zum Auffinden rechter Devotionalien” führe und die Verdächtigen „als rechtsmotivierten Straftäter entlarven und sie dann dauerhaft in den Fokus der Polizei rücken”. Im Laufe der Recherche werden weitere Infos über den Gruppengründer „Paulo“ bekannt. Auf seinem Instagram-Profil posiert er vermummt und mit einschlägiger rechtsextremer Szenebekleidung in der Frankfurter Innenstadt Auf seinem Ellbogen prangt als Tattoo das neonazistische Symbol einer „Schwarzen Sonne“ und seine Freunde posieren im „Kampf der Nibelungen“-Shirt. “Kampf der Nibelungen” ist ein Neonazi-Kampfsportevent, das auch der Vernetzung der gewaltbereiten rechtsextremen Szene dient. Ein anderer Post eines Propaganda-Accounts auf Instagram lässt vermuten, dass „Paulo” einen Teil seiner Ausgaben beim Merchandise-Druck zudem durch den Versand von rechtsextremen Stickern deckt. Ein anderes Mitglied der deutschen „NSC 131”-Gruppe taucht auch in einer weiteren internationalen „Telegram”-Chat-Gruppe auf, in der verfassungsfeindliche Symbole, gewaltverherrlichende Videos und verbotene Neonazi-Musik geteilt wird. Das Mitglied verbreitet dort Propaganda der rechtsterroristischen Organisation „National Socialist Order” (vgl. Vice), einer Nachfolgevereinigung der rechtsterroristischen Struktur „Atomwaffen Division”, und Beiträge, die Rechtsterroristen glorifizieren. In dieser Gruppe befinden sich mindestens vierzig deutsche Mitglieder, die angeben, zum Teil in Biker-Gruppen oder Neonazi-Strukturen aktiv und bestens vernetzt zu sein.

via belltoewer: Hausdurchsuchungen in Hessen Neue rechtsextreme Gruppe „NSC 131“ in Deutschland

siehe auch: 131 Crew / NSC 131 – – White Nationalist — United States. What began as a White Boys’ fight club, has quickly evolved into self-proclaimed defense forces for white people. Originally conceived as a group who circulates racist flyer campaigns, Crew #131 boasted of exposing ANTIFA / Anti-Fascist Action and African Americans with amateur policing. The use of the numbers “131” corresponds to the numbers of the alphabet, A=1, C=3, A=1, code for “Anti-Communist Action.” Increasingly Crew #131 has been willing to engage the public at large in the physical world over the virtual. Recently Crew #131 has caused divisions within the larger Telegram Eco-Fascists / Accelerationist’s community, some of their members are former Patriot Front and the even more extreme The Base. EmergenceOn 23 March 2020, a new Telegram channel named “#131 Crew” was created. Though the group boasted to be around all of New England area, all of the images of the masked men circulated were small cells posting…

The UK’s recent ban of the sixth far right group since 2016, the neo-Nazi Feuerkrieg Division, might come as little surprise given the growing challenge posed to the country by right wing extremism. But what might seem stranger is that this largely online entity—allegedly founded by a 13-year-old Estonian boy—‘no longer existed’ by the time of its proscription, with members already fanning out to join new online groups since the its dissolution in February[1]. Episodes like these reflect a constellation of interrelated challenges associated with an increasingly ‘post-organisational’ threat landscape—where the fluid boundaries between organisations and movements, direction and inspiration, and online and offline are becoming more and more ambiguous. The fracturing and franchising of global extremist movements globally poses a critical challenge for policymakers and tech companies. Amid mounting pressure from governments and civil society, some progress has been made in recent years in removing illegal terrorist content associated with proscribed groups from more mainstream social media platforms. However, our current approaches are not fit to tackle an increasingly diffuse, ‘post-organisational’ threat emerging from both Islamist and far-right extremism. Given the increasingly decentralised, post-organisational and ‘crowdsourced’ nature of both the global Islamist and far-right movements, in large part enabled through burgeoning online extremist ecosystems, it is essential that policymakers and tech companies alike develop policy frameworks that move beyond a group-centred approach to understanding the threat from violent extremist groups. (…) This post-organisational challenge poses a particular threat within far right extremism, with increasingly ideologically cohesive, networked and transnational movements forging new online ecosystem across unregulated imageboard sites such as 8chan and 4chan, censorship-free discussion platforms like Voat, ultra-libertarian social media sites like Parler, and encrypted messaging channels such as Telegram, to coordinate campaigns and share extremist content[10]. But there remains considerably less international alignment around the far right than there is on Islamist threats, posing major challenges to classification and enforcement. There have been moves to proscribe far right groups as terrorist organisations in some national contexts, such as National Action in the UK and Blood & Honour in Canada, while the US recently proscribed its first foreign ‘Racially and Ethnically Motivated’ terrorist organisation, the Russian Imperial Movement[11][12][13]. But such movements are banned in some countries but not others, even if, like Combat 18, they have transnational membership[14]. While tech companies have been developing their own internal guidelines and terms of service around ‘hateful’ and ‘dangerous’ groups, specific policies around terrorism are partly hamstrung by the limitations of international lists of proscribed terrorist groups, such as the UN Designated Terror Groups list, which are focused on ISIS and al-Qaeda related threats[15]. Meanwhile groups like Atomwaffen Division, originally formed in the US, are currently not banned at all despite explicitly advocating for the use of terrorist tactics. An analysis of the presence of terrorist-supporting constituencies on Telegram has shown that while the organisational power of groups such as Atomwaffen Division is still important, there is an expansive network of terrorist-endorsing channels on the platform that are not explicitly affiliated with any group, which are very easy for individuals to tap into without expressing formal affiliation to a movement or making contact with other affiliates. Channels and content can thus be seen as “pro-terrorist” whereby support is expressed for politically motivated violence or individuals who have committed attacks, even when there is no express affiliation to a proscribed organisation[16].

via orfonline: Confronting the Challenge of ‘Post-Organisational’ Extremism

Ein Winterthurer (19) fantasiert im Internet über einen Rassenkrieg. Das Motto seiner «Eisenjugend»: «Schweizer zu sein, heisst, weiss zu sein.» Zu Hause hat der Neonazi angeblich zahlreiche Waffen. Die «Eisenjugend Schweiz» eifert amerikanischen Neonazis nach. Ihr Vorbild: Die US-Gruppe «Iron Youth», die wiederum grosse Ähnlichkeiten mit der berüchtigten Atomwaffen-Division aufweist. Eisenjugend Schweiz machte unlängst mit einem Kanal auf dem Messenger-Dienst Telegram auf sich aufmerksam und weist Verbindungen mit der Nationalistischen Jugend Schweiz (NJS) auf. Anführer der Eisenjugend ist laut «Tages-Anzeiger» ein 19-jähriger Mann aus Winterthur. Bisher werde der Rassenkrieg der Eisenjugend vor allem im Internet ausgetragen. Doch der Kopf der Neonazi-Truppe, der unter dem Pseudonym Eszil auftritt, hat einem Jugendfreund zufolge zahlreiche Waffen zu Hause. «Er zeigte mir seine Waffensammlung. Eine Kalaschnikow, zwei Karabiner, zwei Pistolen. Auch Munition bewahrt er zu Hause auf. Alles legal, mit Waffenschein.» Eszil trainiere zudem Tag und Nacht, sagt jemand, der ihn kennt. «Er drückt sich täglich fünf Mahlzeiten rein. Ich rede von richtigen Mahlzeiten, nicht von diesem Grünzeug.» Was bei einem Neonazi eher verwundert, ist der Umstand, dass Eszil an der Zürcher Hochschule der Künste (ZHdK) studiert. Dort reichte er im Mai 2020 eine wissenschaftliche Arbeit zum Thema «volksgeschichtliche Identifikation» ein. Auf dem Telegram-Kanal der Eisenjugend wird dem rechtsradikalen Gedankengut unverhohlen gefrönt: «Das ist unser Führer Adolf Hitler. Adolf Hitler kämpft um Deutschland», liest da ein Unbekannter mit Zürcher Akzent in einem Video vor. «Im Kampf ums Dasein behauptet sich der, der aus irgendwelchen Gründen Lebensuntüchtigere in diesem Kampf ausmerzt.» Zudem tritt die Eisenjugend in einem Blog in Erscheinung, wo sie von einer Vorherrschaft der Weissen fantasiert. «Schweizer zu sein, heisst, weiss zu sein», lautet der Titel eines Beitrags.

via blick: Neonazi-Truppe aus Winterthur ZH fantasiert von Rassenkrieg – Dieser Kunst-Student (19) will eine Schweiz nur für Weisse

siehe auch: Winterthur: Neue Details zu rechtsextremer Gruppe «Eisenjugend». Eine Winterthurer Gruppe namens «Eisenjugend» will die «Zukunft der weissen Rasse» sichern. In Propagandafilmen zeigen sie sich maskiert mit Sturmgewehr. (…) Mindestens eines der Mitglieder stammt aus Winterthur. Der 19-Jährige soll an der Zürcher Hochschule der Künste (ZHdK) studieren und zu Hause mehrere Waffen samt Munition horten. Wie viele Mitglieder die Gruppe insgesamt zählt, ist unklar. Behörden haben Kenntnis Auf Anfrage des «Tages-Anzeiger», bestätigt der Nachrichtendienst des Bundes Kenntnis von der Gruppierung zu haben. Weitere Angaben wolle man nicht machen. Damit man aber tätig werden könne, reiche «ein ideologischer oder politischer Hintergrund von Personen (beispielsweise Neonazis)» nicht aus. Ausschlaggebend seien effektive Gewaltbezüge, also das Verüben oder und Fördern von Gewalt.