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Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail '16 --Updated: The Plot Thickens With Woolsey

The Alt. Media and Conspiracy Theories

One of the most striking aspects of this election cycle has been the mainstreaming of conspiracy theories and the alt media in general. While Goldwater of course received ample support from the Birchers during the '64 election, Alex Jones and his ilk hold far more sway over the general public in 2016 than his Bircher predecessors could have scarcely imagined in 1964. Thus, while Goldwater attempted to keep the Birchers at arm's length, Donald J. Trump has unabashedly embraced Jones and his supporters. Indeed, on December 2, 2015 (the day of the San Bernardino shooting) Trump even appeared on Jones's online show where the mutual admiration was undeniable. The New Yorker notes:

"... Jones’s guest on his show the morning of the shooting had been, as chance would have it, Donald Trump. Jones had praised Trump, claiming that ninety per cent of his listeners were Trump supporters, and Trump had returned the favor, saying, 'Your reputation is amazing. I will not let you down.' "

Alex Jones

Since then Jones has become one of Trump's most dedicated attack dogs in the media (even as his behavior has grown more erratic). Consider this dust-up that unfolded between Jones and the Young Turks that occurred during the 2016 Democratic Convention.

But Trump's embrace of Jones was only a warm up for his decision to place Stephen Bannon, the chairman of the alt. right haven Breitbart, in charge of his campaign. This move effectively signaled that Trump was all in with the "alt. media." Mother Jones reports:

"Last week, when Donald Trump tapped the chairman of Breitbart Media to lead his campaign, he wasn't simply turning to a trusted ally and veteran propagandist. By bringing on Stephen Bannon, Trump was signaling a wholehearted embrace of the 'alt-right,' a once-motley assemblage of anti-immigrant, anti-Muslim, ethno-nationalistic provocateurs who have coalesced behind Trump and curried the GOP nominee's favor on social media. In short, Trump has embraced the core readership of Breitbart News.

" 'We're the platform for the alt-right,' Bannon told me proudly when I interviewed him at the Republican National Convention (RNC) in July. Though disavowed by every other major conservative news outlet, the alt-right has been Bannon's target audience ever since he took over Breitbart News from its late founder, Andrew Breitbart, four years ago. Under Bannon's leadership, the site has plunged into the fever swamps of conservatism, cheering white nationalist groups as an 'eclectic mix of renegades,' accusing President Barack Obama of importing 'more hating Muslims,' and waging an incessant war against the purveyors of 'political correctness.' "

Stephen Bannon

Much more at: http://visupview.blogspot.com/2016/09/f ... il-16.html

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As he climbs back up to a statistical dead heat in the polls, Trump complimented Vladimir Putin for his leadership style. Media criticism focused on the fact that Putin ordered the invasion and occupation of Ukraine's Crimean peninsula. Others dusted off Cold War tropes to remind us that we hate the Russians. All of this misses the point that Trump zeroed in on Putin's leadership style. This demands that we look at how he treats his own people—how he leads his own nation.



In Russia, it's not healthy to oppose Putin. Prominent Russian journalist Nataliya Gevorkyan, for example, has recently survived two violent attacks by unknown assailants. Her former newspaper, Kommersant, like practically all of the major Russian press outlets, is now a Putin propaganda organ. Gevorkan has since left Russia as Putin allies continue to buy up private press outlets.

Journalists and bloggers who question the government are also jailed or killed. The Committee to Protect Journalists recently ranked Russia in the top 10 nations where journalists are murdered with impunity. While Russian authorities claim that 90 percent of murders in that country are solved, when it comes to the murders of journalists, in 90 percent of the cases there is no prosecution.

Last year Putin's government labeled internationally affiliated human rights groups operating in Russia as “foreign agents." This year, Putin's government issued an outright ban on many such entities, now listing them as "undesirable foreign organizations." Russians who associate with such human rights and environmental organizations can face up to six years in prison. Another new law has sent bloggers who oppose Russia's invasion of Crimea to jail. Political opponents such as former Yeltsin-era Deputy Prime Minister Boris Nemtsov are sometimes conveniently assassinated.

At the end of last year, when human rights activists alleged Putin involvement in the murder of opposition journalists in Russia, Donald Trump defending him, telling MSNBC that Putin is "running his country and at least he's a leader, unlike what we have in this country." Murdering journalists was no big deal; as Trump explained, "I think our country does plenty of killing also."

Last week the Republican presidential candidate praised Putin for having "very strong control" over his country, adding that "he's been a leader far more than our president has been a leader." The Republican vice presidential candidate, Mike Pence, doubled down on Trump's comments, calling them "inarguable." This is the Republican White House ticket. This is their idea of a leader.

-- Michael I. Niman, The Public

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The Clintons are just as comfortable with assassinating those who speak out as Putin's clique is, to be fair.

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http://kboo.fm/media/52491-psychology-trumpism

Psychology of Trumpism

Hosted by:
Jan Haaken
Produced by:
KBOO
Produced for (Program name):
Old Mole Variety Hour



Psychoanalytic look at Trump supporters

Jan Haaken talks with Nancy Hollander about right-wing populism in the United States and abroad as a response to the larger crises in neoliberalism and global capitalism. Hollander is a psychoanalyst and professor emeritus of Latin American History at California State University. She is author of Uprooted Minds: Surviving the Politics of Terror in the Americas.

Listen here: http://kboo.fm/sites/default/files/audi ... umpism.mp3

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Examining Soldiers of Odin Claims to Have "Purged" Membership of Racists

More at: http://anti-racistcanada.blogspot.com/2 ... ms-to.html

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Monday, September 19, 2016
Hate Crimes Against American Muslims Most Since Post-9/11 Era

"Hate crimes against American Muslims have soared to their highest levels since the aftermath of the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks, according to data compiled by researchers, an increase apparently fueled by terrorist attacks in the United States and abroad and by divisive language on the campaign trail."

Posted by As'ad AbuKhalil

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Russian Alt-Right Candidate Hopes to Get Elected by Loving Trump and Hating Clinton

Robert Mackey
Sep. 16 2016

AHEAD OF THIS weekend’s elections in Russia to choose deputies for the Duma, the lower house of parliament, one young candidate for an ultra-nationalist party is going all out to associate herself with three politicians revered by the Russian version of the alt-right: Vladimir Putin, Marine Le Pen, and Donald Trump.

Maria Katasonova, 21, who is running to represent the nationalist party Rodina, or Motherland, made her name as a leader of the National Liberation Movement, a far-right group that supports Russian-backed separatists in Ukraine and attacks anti-Putin dissidents for lacking in patriotism.

This week, she shared an image of herself on social networks, wearing camouflage and saluting alongside painted images of Putin, Le Pen, and Trump in their younger days. The poster was captioned “Nobody but us!,” which is the motto of the Russian Airborne Troop.

Continues at: https://theintercept.com/2016/09/16/tru ... g-clinton/

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Man Assaulted by Finnish Neo-Nazi Group Linked to the Soldiers of Odin Dies

http://anti-racistcanada.blogspot.com/2 ... group.html

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Meet the Horde of Neo-Nazis, Klansmen, and Other Extremist Leaders Endorsing Donald Trump

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The love of his own nation has never yet prevented the entrepreneur from using foreign labor if it was cheaper and made more profit for him. Whether his own people are thereby injured does not concern him in the least; the personal profit is the deciding factor in such a case, and so-called national interests are only considered when they are not in conflict with personal ones. When there is such conflict all patriotic enthusiasm vanishes.

Rudolf Rocker, Nationalism and Culture

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Speaking of little Fuhrer's, I was wondering why the neo Nazi alt right online has been idolizing a non white person like Philipino president Rodrigo Duterte. Along with (another non white person) Chilean dictator Pinochet,
Duterte has cropped up in a number of pro WN memes. Now we can see why

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-37515642

Rodrigo Duterte 'happy to slaughter' addicts as Hitler did Jews

Like the killing fields of the Khmer Roge, these things have a tendency to slip further and further out in a circle. Duterte issued a fatwa on television, calling for the death of drug dealers.
Now, it's anyone suspected of merely using drugs. Which, is pretty much anyone.

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Speaking of little Fuhrer's, I was wondering why the neo Nazi alt right online has been idolizing a non white person like Philipino president Rodrigo Duterte. Along with (another non white person) Chilean dictator Pinochet,
Duterte has cropped up in a number of pro WN memes. Now we can see why

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-37515642

Rodrigo Duterte 'happy to slaughter' addicts as Hitler did Jews

Like the killing fields of the Khmer Roge, these things have a tendency to slip further and further out in a circle. Duterte issued a fatwa on television, calling for the death of drug dealers.
Now, it's anyone suspected of merely using drugs. Which, is pretty much anyone.

It has never been that cut-and-dry, though, has it? Look at the World War Two Japan alliance. Even Nazis, paradoxically, know that true racial isolationism is a recipe for stagnation and defeat. Now if they could only move that insight outward...

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Hero worship of Third World despots is entirely consistent with the current reality of post-Third Position Fascism, even/especially if it reeks of wingnuttery. I guess its "transgressive" or something...

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A Look at the Soldiers of Odin in Hamilton

http://anti-racistcanada.blogspot.com/2 ... ilton.html

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How David Duke’s (Very Live) Ghost Haunts Donald Trump





Duke campaigned against higher taxes, out-of-touch government bureaucrats and against what he called “free trade,” which he said benefited Japan and other countries at the expense of American workers. Troops overseas should be sent to seal the border with Mexico, he said. Careful not to utter the N-word, he forcefully attacked affirmative action, minority set-asides and other government programs aimed at helping blacks—a message that hit home with out-of-work whites or those whose incomes were stagnating as Louisiana slowly recovered from the oil bust of the 1980s.

Trump has his own set of boogeymen, beginning with the immigrants from Mexico and Central America. He made his own well-publicized visit to the border in July—he didn’t need a hand-painted sign attached to his vehicle—and following the terrorist attack in Paris called for temporarily banning Muslims from entering the country.

Not surprisingly, reporters have fixated on Duke’s Klan past in their recent coverage. But his guiding light is actually the profound conviction that Jews are using their control or ownership of big media outlets (think of the New York Times and the Newhouse family) to force whites to live, study and work with blacks, who he believes are genetically inferior. When all those folks rub elbows, miscegenation inevitably results, he believes. The white gene pool is weakened. In short, Duke is a neo-Nazi. (No one has accused Trump of harboring such feelings, but he has kept a copy of Hitler’s speeches by his bedside.)

For Trump, the illegal immigrants crossing from Mexico into the United States seem to be an economic issue. Not for Duke. It’s about what he calls “the demographic threat to America,” and he’s convinced Jews are behind it. "When he’s taking on the immigration, the open borders,” Duke said on the radio, “he’s really taking on the Jewish establishment and he’s taking on the neocons who control the Republican Party.”

Duke didn’t publicly discuss his fixation on Jews during his political heyday in Louisiana. Voters wouldn’t get it, he once explained privately. Now a political has-been in Louisiana, having served a stint in federal prison for misusing money from his followers, Duke is openly espousing his anti-Semitic message again.

And Duke sees Trump as a fellow traveler. “The reason we have this incredible destruction of both Europe and America,” he said on the radio, “is because we have an alien race, an alien people who have taken over our countries, taken over our media, taken over our banking, and only Donald Trump of any Republican has spoken up against Wall Street and the Jewish banks like Goldman Sachs.”

During Duke’s political rise, as a reporter for The Times-Picayune newspaper, I reported that he got his political start with the National Socialist White People’s Party and created his own faction of the Klan after graduating from Louisiana State University because he saw the Klan as a way to generate news coverage to get out his white-rights message.

While he ran for the state Senate, I reported that for years he had celebrated Hitler’s birthday (complete with a cake) and had said repeatedly that the Holocaust was a hoax trumped up by Jews to win sympathy. I reported that he sold Mein Kampf and neo-Nazi books out of his legislative office. I even reported that he had dodged the draft during the Vietnam War and hadn’t paid all of his taxes.

His supporters didn’t care. They accused me and the Times-Picayune of being part of the liberal political establishment.

During the 1990 Senate campaign, campaign staffers for Johnston thought they would sink Duke with an ad that showed footage of him raising a stiff left arm in a “white power” salute, as he stood before a burning cross while leading a Klan rally in the late 1970s. The television ad caused Duke to drop 6 points in a Johnston campaign poll, but he rebounded a week later.

I was reminded of this when Trump belittled Senator John McCain, a disabled reporter, Fox News anchor Megyn Kelly, Muslims and even Pope Francis—and yet went on to win smashing victories in New Hampshire, South Carolina and, most recently, Michigan and Mississippi.

I wanted to ask Duke for his thoughts on Trump. But he hung up on me as soon as I called him. No big surprise. He had called me a “sleazebag” in his autobiography.

After Duke’s election to the Louisiana House in 1989, novelist Walker Percy offered this insightful perspective to the New York Times. “If I had anything to say to people outside the state,” Percy said, “I’d tell them, ‘Don’t make the mistake of thinking David Duke is a unique phenomenon confined to Louisiana rednecks and yahoos. He’s not. He’s not just appealing to the old Klan constituency, he’s appealing to the white middle. And don’t think that he or somebody like him won’t appeal to the white middle class of Chicago or Queens.”

Donald Trump has disavowed Duke. But in important ways he still acts and sounds like him.

More at: http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/ ... ump-213720