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Activist, writer, researcher, addicted to sharing information and facts.

Sub-unit of elite German KSK special forces to be disbanded over links to far-right extremists – ABC News

The move came after a May police raid in which weapons, explosives and ammunition were seized from the home of a KSK regiment soldier in the eastern state of Saxony.

Military investigators began looking into the unit in 2017, after reports of a party where members of the regiment gave Hitler salutes and listened to right-wing extremist music.

Source: Sub-unit of elite German KSK special forces to be disbanded over links to far-right extremists – ABC News

A “Gestapo” Coming Soon

deja vu all over again – attempt to criminalize those who oppose you – fascism pure and simple.

In Saner Thought

Looks like that fascist police dud AG Barr has a new idea to make all protests illegal…..

Attorney General William Barr is reportedly forming a task force to address “anti-government extremists.”

Barr outlined the group in a memo obtained by The Washington Post.

“Although these extremists profess a variety of ideologies, they are united in their opposition to the core constitutional values of a democratic society governed by law,” Barr reportedly wrote in the memo. “Some pretend to profess a message of freedom and progress, but they are in fact forces of anarchy, destruction, and coercion.”

Barr’s efforts come amid weeks of nationwide protests sparked by the May 25 death of George Floyd while in the custody of Minneapolis police that extremists groups have used to create chaos – including violence and the destruction of property

The report about the task force also came on the same day that President…

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United States: Armed, right-wing vigilantes terrorise BLM activists in New Mexico | Green Left

The alleged shooter, Steven Ray Baca, a Tea Party member and son of a retired local Deputy Sheriff, was an unsuccessful 2019 candidate for Albuquerque City Council and is a vocal supporter of the Albuquerque Police Department (APD). Baca was initially held in police custody but released on June 22, and is facing various charges, including carrying a concealed gun without a permit. Some protesters claimed to have seen Baca arrive at the rally in a vehicle with NMCG members. The NMCG has since claimed Baca is not a member of their group. Baca appears on widely-circulated mobile phone video recordings of the demonstration, shoving protesters and knocking a woman to the ground, prior to drawing and firing a pistol.

Source: United States: Armed, right-wing vigilantes terrorise BLM activists in New Mexico | Green Left

How Mis- And Disinformation Campaigns Online Kneecap Coronavirus Response – Note

NewsGuard, a startup by two former journalists that vets the internet for misinformation, has identified 217 websites in Europe and the United States that publish “materially false” information about COVID-19. The volume is so great that NewsGuard, which was launched to check political fabrications, has pivoted to full-time COVID-19 fact-checking.

 

Source: How Mis- And Disinformation Campaigns Online Kneecap Coronavirus Response – Note

US buys up world stock of key Covid-19 drug remdesivir | US news | The Guardian – (3-month supply from sole source Gilead – who recently bought a lot of Gilead stock?)

The Trump administration has now bought more than 500,000 doses, which is all of Gilead’s production for July and 90% of August and September. (Sets stage for only rich getting the medicine and Gilead getting $3,000 per patient)

Source: US buys up world stock of key Covid-19 drug remdesivir | US news | The Guardian