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Opinion | Why ‘Stand Back and Stand By’ Should Set Off Alarm Bells – The New York Times

Many of these people predict increasing violence from now through the election, and after, regardless of winner. The white power movement has long sought not only to intimidate voters — which it has done — but also to inflict mass casualties. There is no reason to think that strategy will change.

We are talking about a resurgence of the movement responsible for the Oklahoma City bombing, the largest deliberate mass killing on American soil between Pearl Harbor and the Sept. 11 attacks. The fact that most people don’t remember the Oklahoma bombing as the work of a movement reveals how deeply entrenched the white power movement is as an American problem.

This is a movement that has been using online social network activism since 1983, that has repeatedly targeted people and infrastructure, that has not been effectively confronted. As I found in the extensive archives of the white power movement, we have not allocated sufficient resources to surveil and stop white power violence.

Criminal trials of its activists have often failed. Piecemeal responses to the coordinated recruitment of active-duty military personnel and other groups with similar expertise have not sufficiently stopped the flow of weapons, tactics, and training to these groups.

We are decades, if not generations, into this problem. A call to arms like “stand back and stand by” is nothing less than catastrophic.

Leader of Proud Boys also leads grassroots group Latinos for Trump – CNNPolitics

Based in Miami, the grassroots group headed by Tarrio has been active during the 2020 election cycle, knocking on doors during the coronavirus pandemic to reach potential voters. Speaking to CNN on Thursday, Tarrio said his Latinos for Trump group believes “all gun laws are unconstitutional.” Source: Leader of Proud Boys also leads grassroots group Latinos for Trump – CNNPolitics

The Trump Administration Lost Millions of Dollars of Food and Water Meant For Puerto Rico After Hurricane Maria – (someone made a lot of money selling relief for their profit?)

FEMA shipped 97 million liters of water to Puerto Rico between September 2017, when Hurricane Maria made landfall, and April 2018, according to the report. Of that 97 million liters, just 36 million liters definitely reached local distribution points. In those first eight months following the hurricane, FEMA shipped 53 million meals to Puerto Rico. Just 24 million verifiably reached local distribution points.

“The remaining commodity shipments for both water and meals that arrived in the Commonwealth either remained in FEMA’s custody were in contractor facilities, or had unknown destinations,” the report found.

Source: The Trump Administration Lost Millions of Dollars of Food and Water Meant For Puerto Rico After Hurricane Maria

Russian journalist self-immolates outside police headquarters, blames government for her death

So very sad – RIP

Irina Slavina, the editor-in-chief of Koza.Press, set fire to herself outside of the police headquarters in Nizhny Novgorod on Friday, October 2. She died at the scene from the resulting burns, the Telegram-based news outlet Baza reports. Slavina’s self-immolation and death was also reported by the Telegram channel 112. 

Tennessee reports 1,293 new COVID-19 cases, 47 deaths on Oct. 1 | WKRN News 2

The health department reported 1,293 new cases, bringing the state to 197,432 total cases, a .7% day-to-day increase since Wednesday. Of the total cases, 189,575 are confirmed and 7,857 are probable.

Tennessee’s seven-day new cases average increased to 1,413 additional cases per day.

Source: Tennessee reports 1,293 new COVID-19 cases, 47 deaths on Oct. 1 | WKRN News 2

The Race for 5G – GERMAN-FOREIGN-POLICY.com

Germany and the EU are falling behind in the global race for the development of 5G networks and are risking additional losses by banning Huawei. EU Commission statements and a brief analysis from corporate circles confirm that the Union is not only failing to achieve its own 5G goals, but is also losing ground vis-à-vis its competitors.  Source: The Race for 5G – GERMAN-FOREIGN-POLICY.com

Is Art just another luxury item? – Pas de Cartier ! – updated ! — Barbara Crane Navarro — Tiny Life — Barbara Crane Navarro

The Fondation Cartier presents the exhibition « The Yanomami Struggle » while the Yanomami are struggling against the gold industry which is destroying their territory and against the gold miners who are spreading the coronavirus! Yes, the Cartier Foundation “supports” a people, the Yanomami, victims of an activity, the extraction of dirty gold, which precisely enriches the […] […] […]

Is Art just another luxury item? – Pas de Cartier ! – updated ! — Barbara Crane Navarro — Tiny Life — Barbara Crane Navarro

Trashing the Last Paradise. World’s biggest Pantanal Wetlands still Ablaze — The Free

As Brazil’s wetlands burned, neo-fascist Bolsonaro regime did worse than nothing to help Tatiana Pollastri And David Biller / The Associated Press September 30, 2020 02:53 PM As Brazil’s wetlands burned, government did little to help Jair Bolsonaro’s government says it has mobilized hundreds of federal agents and military service members to the region to […]

Trashing the Last Paradise. World’s biggest Pantanal Wetlands still Ablaze — The Free