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Aerospace Hose and Tube Assemblies Market (impact of COVID-19) to See Massive Growth by 2026| Ametek, Inc., Eaton Corporation, Flexfab, LLC, ITT Inc.,…

Posted on July 10, 2020 by Danzig

COVID-19 Impact on Global Aerospace Hose and Tube Assemblies Market Size, Status and Forecast 2020-2026

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Taiwan: Supporting the Next Generation of Aerospace Manufacturing – Modern Machine Shop

Posted on July 10, 2020 by Danzig

As the fourth largest exporter of machine tools and components in the world, Taiwan has averaged $4 billion in exports per network of more than 1,000 precision machinery manufacturers and more than 10,000 upstream suppliers over the last few years. The greater Taichung area is home to a significant machine tool and component industry cluster, enabling global companies to meet their needs in a central location. The supply chain covers key parts and components for sectors including machine tools, dies and molds, controllers, sliding rails, clamping fixtures, metal cutting and milling tools, power components and transmission components.

At the time of this writing, Taiwan had reported only 441 conformed cased of the coronavirus. According to TIATRA, one theory for this relatively low number is that Taiwanese machine tool manufacturers were able to unify their experience to reduce the time it took to get 60 mask production lines up and running from six months to just 25 days. With these 60 lines, the number of masks produced in Taiwan reached 10 million daily by mid-March. TIATRA reports that this is strong evidence that Taiwan's manufacturing industry is more than competitive, which has enabled the island to react quickly to the crisis and make up for the shortfall in face masks.

A forecast by Boeing and Airbus suggested the global aerospace industry still has another $5 trillion in growth capacity over the next 20 years. And, according to PricewaterhouseCoopers 2017 report, Taiwan ranked sixth in aerospace manufacturing attractiveness. Taiwan has both manufacturing and MRO capabilities to supply Airbus, Boeing and other global aircraft builders. Its output in 2019 totaled $4.499 billion thanks to the full support of Taiwanese machine tools builders, reports TIATRA. With sights set on the global aerospace industry, Taiwan has begun to develop intelligent machine models capable of processing intricate designs autonomously.

Taiwan's aerospace producers, such as Aerospace Industrial Development Corp. (AIDC), initialized the A-Team 4.0 at the end of 2015. This team signed a memorandum with 14 Taiwanese machine tool manufacturers in 2017 (now increased to over 40 quality suppliers) to provide a new platform for Taiwanese machine tool manufacturers to supply high-quality machines for aerospace parts and component manufacturing. AIDC helps to cultivate these manufacturers to be recognized as qualified machine producers with matching stringent standards in the aerospace industry. As a result, 90% of the machinery in AIDC's Aero Engine Factory Case Line III is made in Taiwan.

Taiwans Ministry of Economic Affairs has launched the Aerospace Composite Material Processing and Smart Manufacturing Pilot Project as well as the Aerospace Smart Manufacturing Technology Development Plan. AIDC has joined hands with Mirle Automation, Vision Wide and Gongin Precision (GPI) to establish localization of aerospace composite processing equipment and intelligentization of the production line. Together, AIDC and the three machinery equipment manufacturers obtained certification from international aerospace manufacturers, and over the next 10 years they will receive international orders worth $2.06 billion, including orders from global aviation manufacturers Boeing and Airbus.

As for the Aerospace Smart Manufacturing Technology Development Plan, Taiwan's major machine tools manufacturer Yeong Chin Machinery (YCM) also developed and introduced its smart processing equipment into the production lines of Drewloong Precision and Magnate Technology both of which are suppliers to Evergreen Aviation, a joint venture between EVA Air and General Electric since 1998, consistently delivering exceptional aircraft maintenance solutions to airline partners.

Join the webinar featuring fiveTaiwanese manufacturing solutions providers including APEC, HonorSeiki, Soco, Techman Robots, and YCM and learn about aerospace solutions to meet critical needs and stay ahead.Taiwan: Supporting the Next Generation of Aerospace Manufacturing will stream Wednesday, July 22, 2020 at 3 a.m. ET.Register here.

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This Aerospace Powerhouse Will Double Your Money (and Seriously Upgrade Your Vacations) – Money Morning

Posted on July 10, 2020 by Danzig

Jet travel is as fast as it's ever been, thanks to new materials like carbon fiber, and ultra-efficient turbofan engines, like General Electric Co.'s (NYSE: GE) GE9X and Rolls-Royce Holdings' (LSE: RR) Trent XWB.

Still a trip from my home in California's Bay Area to, say, Sydney is a grueling, boring 15-plus hours. New York to London clocks in at more than seven hours, and the busy New York to Los Angeles route takes nearly five-and-a-half hours.

But what if you could take off from San Francisco and land in Sydney in a little over three hours? Or make the trip from JFK to London Heathrow in 90 minutes? How about a 230 mile hop between Washington, D.C. and New York that takes just four minutes?

Those incredible travel times are very, very possible traveling at Mach 5 five times the speed of sound, or around 3,836 miles per hour.

It's become what's known as "hypersonic" speed, and before much longer, it's going to make those mighty GE9Xs and Trent XWBs look like steam engines.

The technology to take us hypersonic isn't coming tomorrow, or "just around the corner" it's here now. Today.

It's not available to commuters or vacationers yet but it's the top priority of American, Chinese, and Russian defense firms.

That makes this tech critical to our security. At the same time, owning the industry leader I've identified here is going to be critical to your prosperity

Deloitte says the hypersonic market has grown by roughly 26% a year since 2014. At that rate, the annual spending is expected to double, from $2.6 billion last year to well over $5 billion by 2025.

But in my view, that's a conservative estimate it simply doesn't include hundreds of millions of dollars in venture capital that is flooding in.

What's more, now that a proof of concept and the glaring need for this technology is established, expect growth to come faster.

And wherever there's growth, there are investment dollars. The next catalyst for growth is coming courtesy of Uncle Sam.

See, in early June, the U.S. Senate was working on the new defense spending bill for the next fiscal year.

Drafters are "digging deep" not just for hypersonic vehicle development, but also for building defenses against our global rivals, particularly the Chinese and Russians.

By now, most people are familiar with the acronym for intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM).

Now it's time to learn a new acronym for the coming age HGV. That stands for hypersonic glide vehicle, and it's what the military is spending huge resources to develop and counter.

Yes, the big defense companies we all know and love are part of this effort. We're talking Lockheed Martin Corp. (NYSE: LMT), Raytheon Technologies Corp. (NYSE: RTX), and Northrop Grumman Corp. (NYSE: NOC).

There's another player at work here it doesn't get as much attention as the "Big Three" of the U.S. defense sector, but it will get a big cut of the hypersonic business. What's more, there's a merger on the table that will add some "oomph" to the shares.

And this company's merger with a major player in the aerospace sector may not make the stock go hypersonic, but it will certainly add to its velocity.

It's selling at a 35% discount to the S&P 500 at the moment, and it sports an enviable track record of beating that benchmark by 160%.

Over the past five years, the S&P 500 is up only about 49%. Over that same period, its shares are up 129%.

Yes, there's incredible upside ahead in Leidos Holdings Inc. (NYSE: LDOS).

Leidos has been around in one form or another since the late 1960s. Back then, it was established as the go-to government contractor for advanced scientific research.

Basically, this covered everything from nuclear and electromagnetic weapons to radiation therapies for cancers.

Leidos' unmatched ability to take cutting-edge technology and turn it into pragmatic applications has been a big part of its ability to thrive for decades in a cutthroat environment.

But it has stayed closer to its scientific roots than the bigger defense firms. It's not a top tier player in defense, but that's no ding against Leidos: That means it's much better leveraged for growth.

As a matter of fact, in 2016, Leidos bought Lockheed's Information Systems and Global Solutions business for $4.6 billion to be more competitive in the aerospace and defense markets.

This has been part of a longer-term strategy to build out its aerospace work through its longstanding government and Pentagon relationships.

Late last year, Leidos bought Huntsville, Ala.-based aerospace and applied sciences firm Dynetics for $1.6 billion to further expand its exposure to hypersonics, space, and weapons systems.

And yet it has managed to absorb those firms and keep fresh cash flowing in, to the tune of $922 million a year, in fact.

I believe this conservative approach is great news for investors. It shows the company is highly efficient, with a laser-like focus on its core competencies.

The fact that Leidos has battled it out successfully in the aerospace sector for four years means big things ahead.

Leidos boasts a workforce of nearly 11,000. Of those, some 38% are former Department of Defense employees. It's no surprise then that more than a third of its $10 billion-plus annual revenue comes from defense and intel agencies.

That's where the new Hypersonic and Ballistic Tracking Space Sensor (HBTSS) comes in. As the name implies, this is a sophisticated platform that can track objects flying through space at hypersonic speeds.

During the dark days of the Cold War, U.S. and allied militaries reckoned they'd have about 30 minutes' time between the hostile launch of a land-based ICBM and its impact. Now, that's not a very long time, but it's sufficient when you only need 10 minutes to prepare and launch a counterstrike.

Now, submarine-launched missiles, should they be launched from just offshore, cut that warning and response time down to as little as two or three minutes.

That's scary enough, but now we're talking about hypersonic weapons. The challenges our military faces in tracking HGVs are obvious and significant.

The Pentagon is turning to Leidos for that all-important tracking capability.

Meanwhile, Leidos also ranks as a major player in the next generation of space travel, which some experts expect to be an $800 billion industry in the next decade.

Last year, Leidos won a $3 billion NASA contract for IT services. It has supported 87 missions from various firms to the International Space Station and is heavily involved in the planned Artemis moon missions.

The U.S. government is nothing if not a great, reliable customer. That sets Leidos up in the most favorable possible position for long-term revenue growth.

Leidos will become an important part of U.S. defense strategy before its tech sends customers on suborbital, Mach-5 vacation and business jaunts. By that time, it's likely to have doubled your money at least once.

Own this one for the long haul.

And that's not the only tech opportunity I have for you today

By now, you've heard the 5G story a million times over. You've seen the billboards, you've seen the commercials, and you've seen the hype campaigns. But there's a key reason why there hasn't been a nationwide rollout yet.

It was following in the footsteps of the 10 years it took 4G to roll out but the FCC just stepped in with a $10 billion initiative to supercharge 5G. Here's how to take your slice

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Michael A. Robinson is Defense and Tech Specialist for Money Map Press. He is a 36-year Silicon Valley veteran and one of the top technology financial analysts working today. That's because, as a consultant, senior adviser, and board member for Silicon Valley venture capital firms, Michael enjoys privileged access to pioneering CEOs, scientists, and high-profile players. And he brings this entire world of Silicon Valley "insiders" right to you...

This all means the entire world is constantly seeking Michael's insight.

In addition to being a regular guest and panelist on CNBC and Fox Business, he is also a Pulitzer Prize-nominated writer and reporter. His first book Overdrawn: The Bailout of American Savings warned people about the coming financial collapse - years before the word "bailout" became a household word.

Silicon Valley defense publications vie for his analysis. He's worked for Defense Media Network and Signal Magazine, as well as The New York Times, American Enterprise, and The Wall Street Journal.

Michael is 100% independent and receives absolutely no compensation from companies he writes about. His ideas are completely his own.

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SpaceX delays launch of latest batch of Starlink satellites, with two hitchhiking spacecraft – The Verge

Posted on July 10, 2020 by Danzig

Update July 8th, 12:00PM ET: SpaceX postponed todays launch due to bad weather in the area. The company decided to proceed through the countdown of the launch up until one minute before the planned takeoff in order to collect data from the rocket. A new date for the will be decided soon.

Original Story: Just a week after launching a GPS satellite for the Space Force, SpaceX is back with another launch of its internet-beaming Starlink satellites. The companys Falcon 9 rocket is slated to take off from Cape Canaveral, Florida, today, launching 57 Starlink spacecraft as well as two hitchhiking Earth observation satellites from operator BlackSky.

The flight is the latest in SpaceXs ongoing quest to flesh out its proposed massive Starlink constellation, aimed at providing broadband internet connectivity from space. The company has permission to launch nearly 12,000 Starlink satellites from the Federal Communications Commission, a swarm of spacecraft that will beam internet coverage to every point of the globe. After this launch, SpaceX will have launched 595 of its Starlink satellites (though at least one has come out of orbit, while a few others have failed since making it to space).

Todays mission is the second Starlink launch to include another companys satellites along for the ride. Typically, SpaceX has launched its Starlink probes in batches of 60, all by themselves. But on a previous launch in June, SpaceX launched 58 Starlink satellites as well as three tiny imaging satellites from the company Planet. The company Spaceflight, a broker that finds room for satellites on upcoming launches, arranged for the BlackSky satellites to fly on this mission. SpaceX also has its own program to arrange ride-shares on its Falcon 9 rocket, working directly with customers, as it did with the recent Planet ride-share.

The Starlink satellites going up on todays launch will all sport a relatively new feature, too. Theyre equipped with a deployable visor, known as a sunshade, designed to prevent the Suns light from reflecting off of the shiniest parts of the satellites, notably the antennas. The goal is to decrease the overall brightness of the Starlink spacecraft while in orbit so that they appear as dark as possible in the night sky. SpaceX already launched one of these sunshades on a previous Starlink flight in early June. This is the first launch where the entire fleet will carry the visor.

SpaceXs new sunshades are a direct response to concerns that have been raised by the astronomy community about Starlink. After the first launch of SpaceXs satellites, astronomers noticed just how bright the spacecraft appeared in the sky, and scientists grew worried that such a massive constellation of shiny satellites would interfere with their observations of the Universe. To observe distant celestial objects, astronomers often rely on taking long-exposure images of the night sky and a satellite zooming through an image leaves a bright streak that can ruin an observation.

Following discussion with leading astronomy groups, the sunshade is the latest solution SpaceX has come up with. The company tried coating one of its Starlink satellites in early January to make it appear darker; that solution didnt dampen the vehicle enough to allay everyones fears. More changes could be on the horizon, too, such as changing how the satellites are oriented when they reach their final orbits.

SpaceXs Falcon 9 is slated for liftoff at 11:59AM ET out of the companys launchpad at NASAs Kennedy Space Center in Florida. SpaceX is using one of its used rockets for the mission, a Falcon 9 that has flown to space and back four times before. The rocket will attempt to land on one of SpaceXs drone ships in the Atlantic following the launch, potentially enabling the vehicle to fly for the sixth time after today. In June, SpaceX set a new record of landing the same Falcon 9 for a fifth time following a flight; the company could repeat the feat today.

If all goes well, the two BlackSky satellites will deploy first, just over an hour after takeoff. The Starlink satellites will then deploy about 30 minutes after that. Weather is a bit iffy, with just a 60 percent chance that conditions will be favorable for flight. If SpaceX is able to launch today, the companys live stream is set to begin about 15 minutes before takeoff.

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SpaceX Vs Blue Origin: Who Wins The Space Race – Analytics India Magazine

Posted on July 10, 2020 by Danzig

The space projects have been dominated by government bodies until we saw the ambitious companies such as SpaceX and Blue Origin diving into this diverse area. These two are the most prominent names in the private space community and are often put on a face-off due to the similarity of its founders in other areas as well.

Owned by two of the most powerful businessmen of all time Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos, they have been on the competition radar for their interest in the area of autonomous vehicles. Similarly, in the space segment, while the two companies might look quite similar in its attempts to explore space, the ideology and the approach of these companies vary quite significantly. But one thing cannot be denied that they both are developing large, reusable vehicles capable of carrying people and satellites across space.

While we have often heard about SpaceXs missions and launches over the past few years, Blue Origin does not come out to be so ambitious in gaining traction. In the last two years alone SpaceX has performed 21 launches, representing about 20% of roughly 100 worldwide launches.

Recently it also became the first private company to successfully launch its SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket into space. It is the first time ever that commercially-developed space vehicles owned and operated by a private entity rather than NASA have transported humans into orbit. Musks obsession with exploring Mars and other space is not unknown. Back in 2001, he came up with the idea for Mars Oasis and even pledged a few million dollars for the project.

Blue Origin, on the other hand, has yet to launch anything into orbit. But its ambitions are not too different from SpaceX. Its rocket called the New Glenn is often the talk of the town, and the company is aiming to launch it in 2021. This rocket will be powered by an engine developed by the company itself, called the BE-4. It was secretly found in 2000 by Bezoz but has gained attention only after 2015. It is also working on New Shepard, a vertical takeoff and vertical landing rocket that the company wants to use for human tourism.

In 2018, SpaceX sent an AI-based robot called CIMON, short for Crew Interactive Mobile Companion to the international space station. It was designed to help astronauts perform their work such as scientific experiments. It became the first AI technology to be launched to the space station.

Not just that, the recently launched Falcon 9 rocket also made use of artificial intelligence. It has a sophisticated AI autopilot that steers the cone-shaped Crew Dragon. Once it reaches within 60 feet of the space station, the astronauts then manoeuvre it.

Talking about Blue Origin, Bezos parent company Amazons cloud unit, AWS recently unveiled a new space business segment called Aerospace and Satellite Solutions business segment. With an aim to bring AWS services to space enterprises and satellite industry, it aims to help them with spaceflight operations. It aims to reimagine space system architectures, launch services that process space data on Earth, provide secure, flexible, scalable, and cost-efficient cloud solutions to space missions. It might hardly come as a surprise if Blue Origin tries to benefit from it in the coming future.

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SpaceX has many firsts in its name, for instance, building and sending liquid-fueled rockets in Earths orbit, developing a small launcher, successfully launching, orbiting and recovering spacecraft, developing the cheapest rocket, first private company to send humans into space and more.

Blue Origin, on the other hand, likes to take smaller steps at a time. It has so far developed a suborbital capsule system, acquired the technology of reusable rockets with vertical takeoff and landing, made a two-stage orbital launch vehicle with New Glenn and soon aims to send astronauts to the moon again.

While SpaceX has sent many rocket designs to orbit and recently sent astronauts to space, Blue Origin is working towards it. It has till now flown suborbital rocket flights and is in the early stages of assembling its first rocket capable of reaching orbit. Though there is a visible lag, experts believe that Blue Origin is well set for giving major competition to SpaceX. Especially with Amazons Kuiper project and AWS space unit, it can soon be expected to make a competitive move against SpaceX.

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NASA’s Guardian Angels: Pararescuemen and the SpaceX launch – SOFREP

Posted on July 10, 2020 by Danzig

SpaceXs Falcon 9 spacecraft launched from the Kennedy Space Center on May 30th. This was the first spacecraft to take off from the Kennedy Space Centers pad since the Space Shuttle Program was shut down in 2011.

The Defense Visual Information Distribution Service was on the front lines of this historic event. They provided an in-depth story and personal interviews with those present.

Hordes of people came to watch the historic liftoff, not to mention the thousands that watched it remotely. Among all these people, there was a small group watching with intense eyes, hoping for the best, but prepared for the worst. These people were the Air Forces 58th Rescue Squadrons Guardian Angels, out of Nellis Air Force Base.

These Guardian Angels are the Air Forces elite Pararescuemen, better known as PJs. These personnel recovery experts were split up into three Space Flight Support Force teams strategically located at Patrick Air Force Base, Florida, Joint Base Charleston, South Carolina, and Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam, Hawaii to support this very important space mission.

Being a part of this event was a historic tradition for the Pararescue community. As Major Lucas Gagliardi, a member of the 58th Rescue Squadron and director of operations, pointed out, Pararescue has been a part of manned space flight since it began in the 1960s, so to be included in the first team to bring back some of our heritage was a super humbling and awesome experience.

The three teams were tactfully located to respond if an emergency occurred and the mission was forced to abort at any time before the spacecraft linked up with the International Space Station.

The preparation for this special mission was intense. A month before the launch took place, the three teams, comprised of Combat Rescue Officers and PJs, went to Cocoa Beach, Florida to participate in Just-in-Time-Training (JITT) with Detachment 3, a unit attached to the 45th Space Wing, out of Patrick Air Force Base.

Gagliardi summed up the month of intense training: We spent, between 12 to 14 hours daily, working in the basin and getting hands-on training with the capsule. We had a wide variety of instructors from retired Pararescuemen, to pilots, firefighters, doctors, basically the whole gamut of rescue personnel who each brought their unique, capabilities and expertise to train us up for this mission.

He went on to say, If something were to go wrong, we [were] trained to be able to support multiple contingencies and hazards during day or night ops. For example, in all these scenarios we had to be prepared to execute a recovery in the open ocean for up to 72 hours, treating patients until a helicopter arrived or a recovery by a ship of opportunity [sic].

The team at Patrick Air Force Base was staged with HH-60 Pavehawk helicopters and an HC-130 Combat King II. That team was to respond to an incident happening before or shortly after liftoff.

Once the Falcon 9 proceeded on its route, the team at Joint Base Charleston took the watch, accompanied by a C-17 Globemaster III, which could take the Pararescue team anywhere up and down the East Coast to respond to an incident.

On the last leg of the trip, prior to the Falcon 9s arrival to the International Space Station, the third team at Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam took over. They had a C-17 at their disposal, which could take them anywhere they needed to go in the Pacific Ocean.

In total, the teams were on call for 24 hours. Thankfully, the space mission went according to plan and the Pararescue teams did not have to put their training to the test.

With this new advent of space travel, the Air Force Pararescuemen community and the 58th Rescue Squadron look forward to further employment, serving space missions into the future.

Major Gagliardi is excited about the opportunities that lie ahead for the 58th Rescue Squadron. We are sending personnel back to Florida to train and support the recovery of the capsule from this launch, and we will be there to support future launches. This readiness embodies the unique capabilities Guardian Angel Squadrons bring to the Air Force and the country.

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Banned by PayPal and YouTube, this alt-right comedian is back on PayPal and YouTube (updated) – The Daily Dot

Posted on July 10, 2020 by Danzig

Update 6:23pm CT,July 8: PayPal deleted both accounts associated with Owen Benjamin. We regularly assess activity against our Acceptable Use Policy and carefully review actions reported to us, and will discontinue our relationship with account holders who are found to violate our policies, a company spokesperson told the Daily Dot in a statement.

Update #2 8:41am CT, July 9: On Thursday, a YouTube spokesperson said that the company had begun deleting the accounts. Only one of the seven which was inadvertently left out of an inquiry to the companyremains live. A YouTube spokesperson said in a statement,All users agree to comply with ourTerms of ServiceandCommunity Guidelineswhen they sign up to use YouTube. When users violate these policies repeatedly, like our policies against hate speech and harassment or our terms prohibiting circumvention of our enforcement measures, we terminate their accounts.

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Owen Benjamin has called internet bans a joke. Yet he seems unwilling to accept them.

Last year, Benjamin, an alt-right comedian, was banned by the major platforms. In short order, YouTube, Twitter, Facebook, PayPal, and Patreon permanently booted him for violating their policies against hate speech. Hes suing Patreon for $3.5 million over its ban.

The alt-right is a loose collection of conservatives that harbor white supremacists.

In March, the Daily Dot reported that hed apparently launched at least seven YouTube channels in an attempt to circumvent the ban. All seven were subsequently removed by the platform.

Now it looks like hes back.

The Daily Dot has found seven new channels that seem to belong to him, though they also may have been launched by fans doing his bidding. Benjamin is never shy about asking his followers, whom he calls Bears (he calls himself Big Bear), for favors and cash.

Theres Owen Benjamin Big Bear (21,000 subscribers), Owen Benjamin Big Bear v1 (1,400 subscribers), Owen Benjamin Big Bear v2 (80 subscribers) Mountain Bear 2.0 (2,600 subscribers), Anchor Bear (4,800 subscribers), and Big Bear Music Reconbear (560 subscribers), and Im Not Owen Benjamin v5 (7,400 subscribers).

Previous mirror channels, as the duplicates are known, were named Im Not Owen Benjamin v3 and v4, respectively.

Most launched after the Daily Dot reported on the seven mirror channels. Big Bear Music Reconbear is an exception; it launched in 2013. Videos on the channel date back just 10 months to shortly before Benjamin was banned from YouTube last December.

Benjamin did not respond to an email inquiry sent to an address listed on his DLive channel this afternoon.

As before, the content on these channels looks to be exclusively Benjamins.

YouTube did not immediately respond to a request for comment about whether these channels violate the ban, or if it would violate Benjamins ban if they were created the channels by others.

YouTubes community guidelines broadly prohibit channels and content that impersonates others or is intended to look like someone else is posting it.

Channels claiming to be a fan account, but actually posing as anothers channel and reuploading their content, are specifically prohibited.

So even if these channels were created by Benjamins fans, they could still be in violation of YouTubes rules.

The channels could also violate other policies. Benjamin has a track record of repeatedly making anti-Semitic and other bigoted statements, as well as spreading conspiracy theories and lies.

In a June 28 video Benjamin calls it preposterous to say the Union freed slaves in the Civil War, and implies that Black slaves supported the Confederacy.

Why were so many Blacks fighting for the Confederacy you might ask yourself, Benjamin said.

Have you ever tried to shoot a gun in chains? Have you ever tried to pick cotton in chains? The lies are becoming absurd.

In other videos he speaks pejoratively about grabblers, a derogatory term for Jewish people that he invented in part to avoid getting flagged for hate speech.

The three versions of the Owen Benjamin Big Bear channels include a contingency plan in case YouTube shuts them down.

One says, Youtube try to shut down our channel. Please, Subscribe to our second channel. [sic]

The main channel describes itself as Owen Benjamin Channel.

All three use the same icon for an avatar.

Two of the channels link to a Facebook group also called Owen Benjamin Big Bear. In a video from June 15, he says that his Instagram is now closed.

I will be not adding any more people.

The three Big Bear channels and the Im Not Owen Benjmain v5 link to PayPal accounts named Owen Benjamin Big Bear and Papa J. Bear, respectively.

In a recent video, Benjamin bragged, PayPal takes a few months before they figure out whos doing it.

PayPal is among the companies that banned him. In response to the Daily Dots inquiry, a PayPal spokesperson said that the company will look into whether the accounts are linked to Benjamin.

Given that Benjamin has joked that being kicked off platforms doesnt bother him, that he thinks its funny, it may seem strange that heor his fanswould bother to circumvent bans, never mind sue over them, especially considering that he still has other platforms to post content and fundraising streams available.

But money doesnt make itself, and Benjamins preferred way of making money is having his fans give it to him. The more ways he can reach them, the more money he presumably makes.

As the Daily Dot reported earlier this week, lately hes been begging followers to give him millions to buy a ranch in northern Idaho, which hes calling BearTaria. On DLive, a video hosting platform with more permissive terms of service than YouTube, he directs people to a fundraising page set up specifically for this purpose.

Donors are promised access to the campground, space permitting, of course.

All donations are non-refundable.

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Banned by PayPal and YouTube, this alt-right comedian is back on PayPal and YouTube (updated) - The Daily Dot

The saffron swastika – The Express Tribune

Posted on July 10, 2020 by Danzig

When Rachel Maddow published her recent book, Blowout, claiming that Russia in confluence with the oil lobby had conspired to bring Donald Trump to power in revenge for the US punitive measures in response to the annexation of Crimea, I had taken an issue with her central premise based on two arguments: timeline and the rise of white nationalists. By the time the annexation of Crimea and the following opprobrium could have policy implications. several developments like the rise of populist leaders like Modi and the strengthening of white nationalist groups were already in motion. I do not think Maddow has done justice to that aspect. But one of her self-confessed admirers, Stephen Bannon, Trumps former chief strategist, might be of some help.

Bannon believes in dharma and is a fan of the Bhagavad Gita. It is funny how these white nationalists and fringe ideologues take what suits them from the sacred book. For instance, his faith in his own dharma (righteous duty) owes itself to an interaction between Krishna (an avatar of Vishnu) and Prince Arjuna. The prince is refusing to fight a war and Vishnu through Krishna reveals his true and imposing form. This is also the source of Oppenheimers famous line, Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds. We will return to Vishnu and the alt-rights fascination with this deity and his destructive powers. Let us keep our eyes on Bannon for now.

Mumbai-based libertarian writer and podcaster Amit Verma has written a blogpost recollecting his meeting with Bannon and an unnamed woman (most probably Rebekah Mercer) in 2015, in New York, where he was asked if he would be interested in launching Breitbart India. Breitbart, originally a conservative online paper, has become a breeding ground for the alt-right. When Verma refused the offer Bannon told him, Well, we think that Modi is Indias Reagan. This is when Bannon had not joined the Trump campaign and barely personally knew the man. It is interesting how everyone who stands in Bannons way is destroyed. Bannon wants Andrew Breitbarts job, he drops dead. Bannon wants Paul Manaforts job, he is disgraced and forced to resign. He is wary of Roger Ailes stealing his thunder, he drops dead.

Bannon claims he is not a racist or a neo-Nazi but his views resonate with Hitlers propaganda. Hitler would blame the political elite of Germany which betrayed its countrymen in consonance with global moneyed Jewry. Bannon believes that Americas permanent political elite has betrayed its people in consonance with what he calls the party of Davos (international business elite). Like Hitler, he is an accelerationist who wants to bring everything down to build it anew and is renting an 800-year-old monastery in Italy to train gladiators to fight the coming wars at an annual cost of 100,000 per annum from his own pocket. That is where Vishnu the destroyer of the world fits into his narrative.

Speaking of Vishnu and Hitler, I told you two weeks ago that Savitri Devi, a Hindu convert of European origin and of Nazi persuasion, believed that Hitler was an avatar of Vishnu. Savitri Devis works have worked as the Rosetta Stone of neo-Nazism and Hindutva connection. Her book, The Lightning and the Sun, led me back to Turner Diaries publisher National Vanguard Books and to its recent publisher Counter-Currents. Her book, A Warning to the Hindus, led me to Hindutva philosophys founder VD Savarkar whose brother SD Savarkar wrote the foreword of the book. The Nazis believed in the fundamental inequality of humanity but did not have a religious philosophy. Savitri Devi provided them one by deifying Hitler and through effective exploitation of the cast-ist theology of monism. The only problem with this invention is that todays Nazis neither consider Indians as their equals or Aryans. It is a disaster waiting to happen as we will show you.

Interestingly, the man responsible for bringing Savitri Devis work to Counter-Currents is one John Morgan, who before coming to this publishing house, had co-founded another neo-Nazi house Arktos media in Budapest with Swedish white nationalist Daniel Friberg in 2009. In 2010, Arktos moved to India where it remained till (surprise surprise) 2014. During this period Friberg had a frequent truck with the RSS and BJP leaders and explored ways to work with them. Soon, Arktos would start publishing Hindutva books with equal fervour hitherto reserved for white nationalist literature. When in 2016 Morgan and Friberg split and Morgan joined Counter-Currents, Friberg combined forces with white nationalist and one-time Trump supporter Richard Spencer to establish AltRight.com.

The alt-rights online presence needs some closer scrutiny. It is commonly believed it emerged from gaming-related imageboards and websites like 4chan and Reddit. These websites, by the way, are infested with both neo-Nazis and Hindutva extremists. These origins are also important because Bannon in the documentary American Dharma made on his life let slip an illuminating anecdote. He talks about a nobody called Dave who one day dropped dead in his office and nobody, not even his family knew him well. However, in the gaming community, he was known as Ajax. And in a multiplayer game, thousands gathered to pay tribute to Ajax at his funeral. What it tells us is that the real meetings and planning of alt-right activities might be taking place in virtual and possibly gaming space.

And no wonder, the number of alt-right and neo-Nazi inspired groups keeps increasing. A recent group to emerge is called Boogaloo Bois which seems to be preparing for the second civil war. It calls itself libertarian not white nationalist, but the tactics employed are textbook Turner Diaries. What if like Bannons this is an attempt to obscure the truth and they all are separated pieces of a jigsaw puzzle that are assembled together whenever a race war and violent overthrow of the system is imminent. Bannon talks against the system, Alex Jones talks against the system and Boogaloo movement does so too. In Turner Diaries, the system is the name of a corrupt Jewish ruling elite that wants to turn whites into a minority. Bannon talks of the coming violent disruption as if it is imminent. Neo-Nazism 101.

One last piece of the puzzle: money. When Access Hollywood tape was leaked, everyone thought Trumps campaign was over and donors were ditching, who came to his rescue? An Indian billionaire Shalabh Kumar. Is it too much to suggest that instead of Americas deep state the very same people who came to Trumps rescue might be responsible for the tapes leak so that they can isolate and have Trump for themselves? This money must have gone to some alt-right groups as well.

If a race war is being planned in America and Europe it cannot be anything for the immigrant population including the Indian expatriates. Here is a quote from Turner Diaries: They have us vastly outmanned and outgunned, but not one of their leaders is motivated by anything other than self-interest. They are ready to betray the System the instant they can see an advantage in doing so. For now, we mustnt let them know that they are all inevitably headed for the gallows. Let them think they can make a deal with us and save their necks when the System falls.

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New Zealand police warned of another mosque threat before Christchurch shooting massacre – Reuters

Posted on July 10, 2020 by Danzig

WELLINGTON (Reuters) - New Zealand police and security services were warned of a threat against another mosque for the same day that a gunman killed 51 Muslim worshippers in Christchurch in 2019, an Islamic womens group told an inquiry into the shooting massacre.

FILE PHOTO: Armed police officers stand guard outside Al Noor mosque where more than 40 people were killed by a suspected white supremacist during Friday prayers on March 15, in Christchurch, New Zealand April 1, 2019. REUTERS/Edgar Su

The Islamic Womens Council of New Zealand said it warned police and security services repeatedly about threats from white supremacists, including when they received a Facebook message threatening to burn the Quran outside a mosque in Hamilton on March 15, 2019, the same day as the Christchurch attack.

Although the threat was not directly connected to the mass shooting, extra security measures could have been taken at all mosques, said the submission to the closed-door inquiry which was made public on Tuesday.

The police had enough intelligence to warrant a coordinated national strategy, the group said in the 130-page submission

If there had been such a strategy, then the message would have alerted every mosque in the country to a threat to one mosque on Friday 15 March 2019 and for all mosques to take extra security measures. Whether or not the threat was connected to the Christchurch killer is irrelevant.

Armed with semi-automatic weapons, Australian Brenton Tarrant, a suspected white supremacist, attacked two mosques in Christchurch on March 15, 2019, broadcasting New Zealands worst mass shooting live on Facebook.

Tarrant has pleaded guilty and a court will begin his sentencing on Aug 24.

The Islamic Womens Council submission said police, security services and government representatvies were focused only on combating terrorism by Muslim extremists, leaving the community vulnerable to the rising alt-right movement.

Evidence indicates that public sector employees were, at best, asleep on the job and, at worst, intentionally

ignoring our pleas and actively undermining our work, Aliya Danzeisen, who leads the groups government engagement, said in a statement.

Police said no comment would be made until the Royal Commission had concluded. However, on the specific threat in the report it said the person was identified and formally warned.

A government spokesman said the government will wait for the Commissions report before making any comment.

The Royal Commission inquiry into the shooting massacre is due report its finding by end of July.

Threats to the Muslim community have continued since the attack, with a threatening social media post appearing earlier this year.

New Zealand, unlike the United States or Britain, has never recorded specific hate crime offences, raising questions about what signs security agencies may have missed.

Islamic Womens Council estimates there would not be a Muslim woman in New Zealand who wears the head scarf who has not been abused in public at some time.

New Zealand police warned of another mosque threat before Christchurch shooting massacre - Reuters

America Is in the Grips of a Fundamentalist Revival – The Dispatch

Posted on July 10, 2020 by Danzig

For as long as I can remember, Ive participated in church services and prayer meetings where I prayed fervently for revival. We cried out for another Great Awakening. It was through repentance and reconciliation that wed truly heal our land. I must confess, I wasnt sure Id ever live to see a truly large-scale religious awakening. But here we are. Here it is. Theres just one catch.

Its not Christian.

It is, however, quite fundamentalist.

Look, I know full-well that there is nothing original about observing that many Americans have transformed politics into a religion. The phrase Great Awokening is a direct callback to arguably the most significant Christian religious revival of our nations past. Its not original, nor is it surprising. Were hard-wired for a spiritual purpose. After all, Ecclesiastes 3:11 declares that God put eternity in the hearts of men.

The signs of political-religious fervor are incandescently clear. Heres John McWhorter, writing in The Atlantic, describing the religious elements of what he calls third-wave antiracism:

[T]hird-wave antiracism is a profoundly religious movement in everything but terminology. The idea that whites are permanently stained by their white privilege, gaining moral absolution only by eternally attesting to it, is the third waves version of original sin. The idea of a someday when America will come to terms with race is as vaguely specified a guidepost as Judgment Day. Explorations as to whether an opinion is problematic are equivalent to explorations of that which may be blasphemous. The social mauling of the person with problematic thoughts parallels the excommunication of the heretic. What is called virtue signaling, then, channels the impulse that might lead a Christian to an aggressive display of her faith in Jesus.

McWhorter was discussing anti-racism, but his analysis applies to elements of the intersectional left more broadly. Heres Andrew Sullivan with a similar analysis:

[Intersectionality] is operating, in Orwells words, as a smelly little orthodoxy, and it manifests itself, it seems to me, almost as a religion. It posits a classic orthodoxy through which all of human experience is explained and through which all speech must be filtered. Its version of original sin is the power of some identity groups over others. To overcome this sin, you need first to confess, i.e., check your privilege, and subsequently live your life and order your thoughts in a way that keeps this sin at bay. The sin goes so deep into your psyche, especially if you are white or male or straight, that a profound conversion is required.

Make no mistake, political religious fervor is not contained to the left. There are times when Trumpism veers directly onto religious turf. Sometimes quite explicitly. Observe the First Baptist Church of Dallas choir sing a hymn called Make America Great Again:

Spend any time around the new Trump right, and youre immediately seized by how closely it tracks that ole time religionwith Trump serving as the charismatic circuit-riding evangelist. People wonder about his deep bond with so many millions of rural Americans, but its obvious to observers who grew up in the Southeven if Trumps a New York reality star, hes still connecting with a deep (and idealized) rural cultural memory.

The result isnt just enthusiastic political support (political rallies and preacher-style rhetoric are nothing new in American politics) but a sense of identity, fellowship, and religious passion thats syncretistic with Christianity, with Trump serving as the Lords mighty instrument of justice and righteousness.

So, yes, secular religion is breaking out across the land. Thats old news. Heres whats newits growing so very dark. We dont need to repeat all the recent excesses of cancel culture to know that many anti-racist progressives are in the midst of a hunt for ideological heretics, and even the oldest sins cant be forgiven. Consider that on Friday a Boeing executive resigned after an employee complained about an article he wrote 33 years ago opposing women in combat.

(For the record, Im now ineligible to work at Boeing because I wrote against Pentagon policy changes permitting women to serve in ground combat roles a mere five years ago, and I stand by my argument.)

And if you think religious Trumpism is sweetness and light, you havent been paying attention. In fact, right-wing Trumpism is trying its best to build its own cancel culture, aimed at purging right-wing institutions of anti-Trump voicesor at abusing them and hounding them online and in real life.Cruelty isnt just a means to an end. Its often the point.

At the edges of Trumpism sit the racist alt-right and the followers of Q, a conspiracy theory so bizarre, incomprehensible, and paranoid that you strain to understand how anyone can believe its claims. Yet its growing in strength, and it occupies a deeply spiritual place in the lives of its adherents.

This darkness requires us to circle back to a word in the opening paragraphs of this essayfundamentalist. The more I experienced the extremes of both left and right, the more I felt like words such as illiberal or authoritarian or even religious didnt quite capture the totality of the devotion and the darkness of the world view. Fundamentalist is a better match. Our nations secular revival looks and feels very much like the fundamentalism Ive seen with my own eyes. It looks and feels like the fundamentalism Ive experienced. And so, on Friday, I tweeted this:

I want to be clear what I mean when I say fundamentalist. The word isnt a mere synonym for religious or evangelical or orthodox or devoted. Each of those words (hopefully) describe me! One or more of those words can describe members of many faiths, including revivalists in the Great Awokening. Ive met many secular, woke, intersectional, pronoun-announcing folks who are also open-hearted and open-minded.Politics may be their religion, but their practice is not grim.

To understand the distinction between fundamentalism and, say, evangelicalism or other forms of devotion, I want to go back to Ecclesiastes 3:11 and quote the entire verse: He has made everything appropriatein its time.He has also put eternity in their hearts,but no one can discover the work God has done from beginning to end.

Let me quote another verse, this one from the New Testament: Fornow we see in a mirror dimly, butthen face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even asI have been fully known.

Both of these passages speak to the existence of an immovable, irreducible amount of uncertainty in this world, including mysteries about God Himself.

Recall the end of the book of Job, when the righteous, suffering man demands an explanation for his plight from the God of the universe, and the God of the universe responds with an extended soliloquy that essentially declares, Im God, and youre not. And what is Jobs response? Behold, I am of small account; what shall I answer you? I lay my hand on my mouth.

As a consequence, while there are many, many things we can know about Godand many things we can learnwe must approach our faith and our world with a sense of existential humility.

And that is exactly the quality that the fundamentalist lacks. Its the fierce existential certainty of the fundamentalist that is so often the root of authoritarianism and illiberalism. Im reminded of the old religious maxim, Error has no rights. That impulse lies at the heart of much of the Christian nationalist/integralist critique of classical liberalism. That impulse lies at the heart of the speech code and the metastasizing intolerance of woke capitalism.

In a culture stripped of existential humility, the only valuable speech is the speech of those who speak existential truth. Dissent harms the body politic by introducing error. Thus free speechas an independent liberty interestcannot possibly be in the common good. The common good is advanced only by truth, and thus only truth has rights.

And what is that fundamentalist truth? Strangely enough, it can shift. A fundamentalist can be both absolutely certain of their faith and endlessly adaptable to new revelation. Opinions held one year ago can be an anathema today. New leaders can rise and make new spiritual demands. Indeed, fundamentalism can be just as much about whom to follow as what to believe.

The deeper the fundamentalism, the more inscrutable its language, culture, and beliefs to those outside the circle of trust. At the extreme edges, like QAnon, the belief system can seem so nonsensical that youre tempted to wonder about the emotional and mental health of its adherents. But even the practices of more acceptable or mainstream fundamentalism can seem both strange and cruel.

Try explaining to someone outside the faith the idea that its necessary to destroy a mans career over a 33-year-old essay expressing an entirely mainstream political position.

Try explaining to someone outside the faith the idea of paying up to $2,500 for two women to come to your home and berate you to the point of tears for your alleged racism and white supremacy.

Try explaining to someone outside the faith well, this:

Fundamentalism is the disease, and illiberalism and authoritarianism are two of its political symptoms. Fundamentalism purports to fill that eternity-sized hole in the human heart, and it thus provides a person with a sense of burning purpose and meaning. It is not a grift (though grifters do prey on fundamentalists). It is not malicious (though a sense of righteous certainty can justify and excuse malicious acts). It is an identity.

What is to be done with our nations toxic fundamentalist revival? Heres a short but difficult list: First, reaffirm our nations commitments to pluralism. It is central to our classical liberal founding that error does, in fact, have rights. Second, construct and cultivate opposing institutions that model the values of humility, charity, and free inquiry that we seek to advance. Third, maintain a wide-open door to converts. And fourth, pray without ceasing for our nation and its people.

As longtime readers know, I grew up in a church that had strong fundamentalist roots. Ive seen many people leave fundamentalism and enter religious communities that were rich with the fruits of the spirit, including love, joy, peace, patience, and kindness. I have not, however, seen people battered, mocked, and berated out of fundamentalism. Indeed, anger and intolerance directed at the angry and intolerant often only serve to deepen the fundamentalists sense of conviction and purpose.

In other words, the fight fire with fire logic of the competing fundamentalist strains of the American secular revival is precisely wrong. One flame doesnt eradicate (or even permanently defeat) the other. They both feed each other, until the conflagration spirals out of control. Instead, fight this fundamentalist fire with water, the living water from the Holy Spirit of a loving God.

One last thing ...

Our present national crisis should make us angry, but that anger shouldnt focus on our friends and neighbors. They are not the enemy of our souls. I like this new song from We the Kingdom. Ive highlighted the group before (theyre from my church), and theyre a reader favorite. Their new song is fierce and defiantand aimed at exactly the right target:

Photograph by Erik McGregor/LightRocket via Getty Images.

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Far Right Reading List Shows Link Between Its Literature and Real-World Violence – Truthout

Posted on July 10, 2020 by Danzig

On May 4, far right personalities Milo Yiannopoulos and Michelle Malkin published what they call their America First reading list as a Google Doc that they then promoted through their social media accounts. Yiannopoulos has recently gained attention for promoting conspiracy theories about both COVID-19 and the recent anti-police brutality protests across the United States. Malkin, who might be best known for writing a book arguing that Japanese internment during World War II was justified, has similarly promoted dangerous disinformation about COVID-19 and reduced Movement for Black Lives protesters to invaders [and] ransackers. None of this is out of character for a pair whose recommended reading list is rife with anti-Semitic conspiracy theories, paranoid invasion fantasies, and at least one prominent fascist philosopher who explicitly denied the notion that he should rely on empirical evidence.

It might be tempting to dismiss the list as another stunt by attention-hungry provocateurs or an attempt to give a racist and misogynist worldview an intellectual veneer. However, it is worth paying attention to what their literary choices reveal about their ideology, the narratives that underpin it, and the connection between those narratives and real-world violence.

The first thing their list attempts to do is establish just what constitutes American literature. This holds true despite the fact that many of the titles were not written by Americans at all: the lists creators are invested in defining the United States strictly as an outgrowth of pre-modern Europe, so it should come as no surprise that it includes older canonical texts by figures like Homer, Ovid, St. Augustine and Shakespeare in addition to Americana like Huckleberry Finn and Paul Reveres Ride. The publication dates for most of its more modern literature by U.S. authors peter out by the early 1960s (Ray Bradburys 1963 novel Something Wicked This Way Comes, for instance) with only a small handful of more recent novels, such as the self-published, remarkably poorly written 2019 accelerationist novel Harassment Architecture by Mike Ma.

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In a tab on the Google Doc marked HOW TO READ, Yiannopoulos and Malkin address their readers directly, writing, The purpose of this list is to help you build a library that will give you a firm basis in history, politics, religion and theology. That firm basis manages to exclude the entire wealth of Black and Indigenous perspectives. Their understanding of modern American literature leaves no room for a Toni Morrison or a Leslie Marmon Silko, and their classics certainly have no place for a Frederick Douglass or a W.E.B. DuBois. Instead, they opt for a virtual how-to manual for white resentment and violence.

Having established that what they understand as American literary culture is innately and almost exclusively derived from Europe, the next thing their list does is reassert the narratives of invasion, resistance and expansion that have fueled the far right imagination for decades. Possibly the lists clearest example of an invasion narrative is recently deceased French author Jean Raspails 1973 novel The Camp of the Saints, a book Yiannopoulos and Malkin indicate is a must read and that has been championed by far right figures from Steve Bannon to leaders of Europes identitarian movement. The Camp tells of a ramshackle armada of boats carrying an undifferentiated mass of impoverished Indian migrants who literally eat feces and invade Europe like zombies, displacing its white inhabitants in the process. It begins with an anecdote about a pedigreed university professor who murders a young hippie for supporting the migrants (in 1973, it was still possible for the far right to characterize academics as upholders of Western superiority, rather than its destroyers). In fact, throughout the novel, the real villains are less the migrants than the media, political and religious elites, as well as the hedonistic activists who advocate for the nameless, faceless, brown-skinned horde. In all, the novels plot amounts to an updated stab-in-the-back myth.

Many on the far right have described the book as prophetic since a new wave of migrants began arriving on Europes Mediterranean shores in 2015 and renewed attention has been focused on undocumented immigration at the southern border of the United States since Donald Trumps election campaign began that same year. Pat Buchanan, who recently used The Camp of the Saints as a metaphor for an article about Syrian migrants on the white nationalist website VDARE, has two titles on the reading list, one of which is another must read; VDARE founder and white nationalist Peter Brimelow has one title on the list as well.

In case all of that is still too subtle, invasion narratives also dovetail neatly with the great replacement theory that motivated, among other things, the mass shootings at two mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand, in March 2019. Shooter Brenton Tarrant titled his manifesto The Great Replacement and wrote, We must crush immigration and deport those invaders already living on our soil.

Over the past year, Yiannopoulos and Malkin have been working closely with the groyper movement, which is essentially an alt-right (white nationalist) rebrand since the old label became too toxic following the deadly Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, in 2017. In fact, it is groyper-in-chief Nick Fuentess podcast that gave the movement and the reading list the America First slogan. (Fuentes, one of the very fine people who attended Unite the Right, borrowed the phrase from Donald Trumps inauguration speech.) Groypers are a constituency already moved by the overheated rhetoric of invasion and replacement, and so attacking or, as they would say, resisting the classes of people they regard as responsible for facilitating the invasion is a logical next step.

The reading list includes both Italian fascist intellectual Julius Evolas Revolt Against the Modern World and Unabomber Ted Kaczynskis manifesto Industrial Society and its Future, which Yiannopoulos and Malkin describe as a rejection of the modern world. Either one of these texts is toxic enough by itself, but in conjunction with one another, they amount to a further indication that the list provides both a theoretical rationale and a moral justification for violent attacks on such modern notions as democracy, egalitarianism, feminism and multiculturalism. Where Evola draws on a mythologized past of undiluted elitism and authoritarian, masculine heroism that, he argues, needs to be reclaimed (while explicitly rejecting any need for empirical evidence), Kaczynski, whose 17-year bombing campaign killed three people and injured 23 others, rails against a leftist psychology that he claims is symptomatic of a sick industrial society. Like many contemporary reactionaries, Kaczynski despises political correctness, which he says has its stronghold among university professors. Not coincidentally, it is university professors who were the most frequent targets of Kaczynskis mail bombs.

The list also included more overt resistance narratives. It initially featured The Turner Diaries by William Luther Pierce (it has since been removed with no explanation given). The Turner Diaries is a novel about a clandestine movement of white men who use racialized terrorism and nuclear warfare to take back the United States from Jewish usurpers and what Pierce portrays as the mindless, sex-crazed Black and Latino men who act as their enforcers. Pierce was the leader of the militant white supremacist organization National Alliance and his novel inspired neo-Nazi terror group The Order, which was responsible for murdering talk radio host Alan Berg in 1984. Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh evangelized the book, traveling to gun shows to sell it (and its sequel, Hunter) to like-minded people; his bombing attack on the Murrah Building closely resembled a similar act described in detail in Pierces text. Investigators found portions of it in his getaway car. Germanys National Socialist Underground (NSU), which murdered 10 people and injured others in a years-long terror campaign against a mostly Turkish immigrant population, also took inspiration from The Turner Diaries: NSU member Uwe Mundlos translated several chapters of the book into German and a digital copy was found on a hard drive in an apartment Mundlos and his two primary accomplices had rented while underground.

The list also supports narratives of expansion, a central theme of classical fascism. It includes multiple titles that seek to [set] the record straight about the Crusades, a historical reference point that is ubiquitous in online far right discourse and invokes images of violent confrontation between Western warriors and Muslim Saracens. Moreover, the reading list and the compilers commentary constantly refer to a theme of Christian superiority and its inseparability from Western identity. They describe one must read title as explaining why the noblest virtues all rest on Christian principles and another as articulating how the Christian Revolution forged the Western imagination. At the same time, Willa Cather, the lone female author on the list who isnt a post-civil rights-era right-wing polemicist, may well be a fine writer, but Yiannopoulos and Malkin summarize their interest in her books by emphasizing her focus on the resilient women who settled the Great Plains. By constantly emphasizing the heroism of the colonizer while completely excluding any voice of the colonized, they make it clear that a certain kind of invasion is, in fact, acceptable to them. In brief, the sum total of the outlook supported by these texts is a justification of all past (and, presumably, present and future) colonial efforts by virtuous Western Christians at the expense of whatever Other is at hand.

The list is also heavy on anti-Semitic literature (The Protocols of the Elders of Zion, Kevin MacDonalds Culture of Critique, and yes, Hitlers Mein Kampf, although the latter has also been removed without explanation); masculinist or anti-feminist texts (Jack Donovans The Way of Men or several titles by Camille Paglia); and overt white nationalist screeds by the likes of Jared Taylor, Vox Day and Ann Coulter. Yiannopoulos and Malkins commentary is revealing here. They acknowledge that the Protocols are a hoax, but they say nothing about why they felt a fraudulent text produced in Tsarist Russia should be included anyway. They describe Culture of Critique as a highly controversial historical survey of the roots of anti-semitism [sic]. This is, at best, a grossly misleading summary. MacDonalds book is not so much an exploration of why other people have turned on Jews in the past, but rather why he believes Jews should be hated. His focus on what he believes is Jewish culpability, rather than other peoples attitudes toward Jews, is evident right in the books subtitle: An Evolutionary Analysis of Jewish Involvement in Twentieth-Century Intellectual and Political Movements. In fact, Culture is the final book of a trilogy and the subtitles of the other two, Judaism as a Group Evolutionary Strategy and Toward an Evolutionary Theory of Anti-Semitism only emphasize MacDonalds presumption that Jews are inherently, indeed genetically, predisposed to maintaining a subversive communal identity separate from whatever other populations they encounter. His analysis seldom rises above the level of condemning the clannish nature of international, cosmopolitan Jewry.

Yiannopoulos and Malkin have a history of brushing off claims of racism, misogyny and anti-Semitism by invoking their own genre of identity politics. Yiannopoulos could not possibly be anti-Semitic, because he is part Jewish; Malkin obviously cannot be misogynist because she is a woman. And neither of them could ever be racist because he claims he is married to a Black man (whose name he has never revealed and whose face has never been seen publicly) and she is Filipina and married to a Jewish man. Yiannopoulos, however, was banned from Twitter for leading a viciously racist and misogynist campaign against a Black actor and notoriously filmed singing America the Beautiful while his erstwhile friend Richard Spencer and others gave Nazi salutes. For her part, Malkin has openly supported anti-Semitic conspiracy theories and the white nationalist aspirations of the groyper movement.

One of the major tools of contemporary far right movements like the alt-right, Europes identitarians, and now the groypers is what they call metapolitics. It is a concept borrowed from mid-century Italian Communist Antonio Gramsci that was introduced to far right circles by Armin Mohler, a post-WWII German apologist for fascism, in a 1946 dissertation that codified what he called Germanys interwar Conservative Revolution. The concept gained popularity in the European far right through the work of Mohlers mentee Alain de Benoist and his notion of right-wing Gramscianism. De Benoist, the intellectual leader of Frances Nouvelle Droite (New Right), co-authored a Manifesto of the New Right for the Year 2000, which described metapolitics as, not another way of doing politics. It has nothing to do with a strategy that aims to impose an intellectual hegemony any more than it claims to disqualify other possible approaches or attitudes. It rests solely on the observation that ideas play a fundamental role in collective consciousnesses and, more broadly, in the entire history of men. In practice, far right metapolitics is a process of using cultural means to make far right ideas more palatable, or what many of its practitioners refer to as shifting the Overton window, which represents the outer limits of acceptable discourse.

The America First reading list clearly falls within the metapolitical sphere. It is nothing if not an overt attempt to instill a very narrowly defined conception of American culture in the minds of a young, overwhelmingly white and overwhelmingly male constituency that is already predisposed to racialized and gendered resentment. As we have seen from Christchurch to El Paso, Oslo to Pittsburgh, their cohort is already prone to explosive and deadly violence.

It is possible to dismiss the America First reading list as just another manifestation of the far right echo chamber and the urge for people like Yiannopoulos and Malkin to keep drawing attention to themselves. However, it also provides useful insights into the mindset of their groyper constituency and related far right sects, as well as the pathways that lead from their exclusionary ideology to violent action. Three years after Unite the Right and in the midst of both a pandemic and a rapidly evolving push for anti-racist social and political change, understanding the process by which the far right propagates narratives of invasion, resistance and expansion in the interest of establishing its own sense of legitimacy is still a necessary precondition for effective opposition to their objectives.

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Mendocino County Board of Supervisors Approves Issuance of Fines for Refusing to Wear Facial Coverings – Redheaded Blackbelt

Posted on July 10, 2020 by Danzig

Stock image of a woman in a mask.

On July 8, 2020, during a special meeting of Mendocino Countys Board of Supervisors, the board voted unanimously for penalties to individuals who refuse to comply with facial coverings guidelines.

According to a draft of the proposed ordinance, the fines range from one hundred dollars ($100.00) for the first violation; two hundred dollars ($200.00) for the second violation; and five hundred dollars (500.00) for third or subsequent violations if the subsequent violations occur within one year of the first violation.

The ordinance says fines will apply to any individual person to willfully or negligently refuse to wear a Facial Covering after an Enfofrcement Officer has informed the person that a Facial Covering is requiredunless the individual articulates a truthful, valid reason for not wearing a facial covering that is also one of the exceptions provided below.

The ordinance will take effect immediately as an urgency ordinance, and shall be applicable as of July 8, 2020, the date of approval of this ordinance.

As to those that can enforce the masking requirements, the ordinances language allows for both law enforcement personnel and anyone designated by the Health Officer including county employees, contractors, or anyone designated by Mendocino Countys Chief Executive Officer.

Exemptions from wearing facial coverings range from children under the age of two years old, persons who are hearing impaired, incarcerated individuals, and makes room for medical exemptions as well. The ordinance does specify that anyone claiming medical exemption bears the burden of proof through appropriate evidence that their medical condition qualifies them for the exemption.

The ordinance defines when facial coverings are required: All individual persons must wear a Facial Covering before they enter, and at all times while inside an indoor facility or any enclosed space, besides their residence, and outdoors when unable to maintain a six-foot distance from other persons outside of their own household or Non-distancing Stable Group.

The draft ordinance makes room for those issued citations erroneously to appeal their fines. An individual who wants their citation reviewed would document their appeal in writing and then the County Health Officer or a designee would determine whether the fine was issued appropriately or not. The model allows for, Any Responsible Party aggrieved by an administrative decision of a Hearing Officer or by the decision of the Hearing Officer may obtain further review by filing a petition for review with the Mendocino County Superior Court.

Mendocino Countys 5th District Supervisor, Ted Williams, explained, The state already made it law to follow the health orders including facial coverings. Under state law, its a misdemeanor. None of us seem willing to find individuals $10,000 or send them to jail. Today, we passed a separate offense that is only an infraction. Section 7 makes it clear that this new offense applies to persons, not a commercial activity. Commercial activity is still covered under the state misdemeanor.

In a presentation to the board, Mendocino County Sheriff Matt Kendall compared the utilization of an infraction citation for eschewing facial coverings to those issued when seatbelt ordinances were first enacted. He said the fines and fees are a little stiff but it gets the point across and protects Mendocino Countys District Attorneys office from increasing the countys already-backlogged court system.

Sheriff Kendall also expressed concern that I have concerns that a person who wont sign a citation when that occurs, an arrest is a remedy. He hoped to not see use of force issues stemming from infractions, however, the violator will be the person that makes ultimately makes the decisions about their fate in these encounters.

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Your guide to spotting the NEOWISE comet – London Free Press (Blogs)

Posted on July 10, 2020 by Danzig

Discovered at the end of March, the NEOWISE comet is passing within 100 million kilometres of our planet. That in astronomical terms is close, but in human terms very far, said Parshati Patel, an astrophysicist with Western Universitys Institute for Earth & Space Exploration.

So dont worry even though Patel says comets are unpredictable, this one wont ram into the Earth, as often happens in Hollywood movies and science-fiction paperbacks.

Comets are leftover chunks from the formation of a planet, she says, composed of dust, ice and rocks. Its almost like a dirty snowball in many ways, Patel said. They appear as bright spots, with a tail, in the sky.

Patel got up early this week to catch a glimpse of NEOWISE, which gets its name from the asteroid-hunting part of NASAs Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer mission, an Earth-orbiting telescope that detected the object.

I personally went on Tuesday. It wasnt really great. There were some clouds in the sky, Patel said. We couldnt really see it with the naked eye.

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Monica Doumit: The love that’s just too much trouble – The Catholic Weekly

Posted on July 10, 2020 by Danzig

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We have known for a long time that those who describe themselves as pro-choice when it comes to abortion are in fact deeply anti-choice. While they wax lyrical about the right to choose, they do nothing to provide support for those women who want to keep their baby, either during or after pregnancy.

If they were authentically and consistently pro-choice, then the same people men and women who hold placards at pro-abortion rallies would also be volunteering for pregnancy counselling services or donating to providers of the same, but it doesnt routinely happen, if at all.

Similarly, the MPs who last year stood up in NSW Parliament and claimed that their pro-abortion vote was about a womans right to choose should be just as vocal and heartfelt in their pleas for the provision of services for families. But there has been no evidence of that.

The irony of the self-proclaimed pro-choicers is that they are thoroughly anti-choice.

This is true at the start of life and it is also true at the end of life.

Those who push for euthanasia and assisted suicide to be made legal describe their campaign as being one about end-of-life choices, but they also are completely disinterested in advocating for, or providing choice to, those who are nearing the end of life.

Instead, and just like the abortion advocates, they frame their campaign in terms of choice to make it more palatable to the public and the politicians.

In particular, those who argue for assisted suicide and euthanasia will say that its legalisation is not about diminishing the quality of or access to palliative care. Instead, they argue, it is an option for people for whom palliative care does not work, and who would be left to die in agony.

Nothing could be further from the truth. Australia has some of the highest quality palliative care in the world, and those who offer it say that for the two per cent of patients for whom it does not work, palliative sedation is offered so that they are not in any pain or distress as they reach the end of their lives.

All they really need is the resources to educate more doctors and patients about it, and to ensure it is affordable for everyone.

But euthanasia and assisted suicide advocates are not interested in that type of choice.

Remember that when Victoria conducted its inquiry into end-of-life choices, 30 of the 49 recommendations that the committee made related to the improvement of palliative care, and only one had to do with the legalisation of euthanasia and assisted suicide.

Palliative Care Victoria requested an additional $65 million in annual funding in order to meet the requirements, but they were given nothing.

The government instead put all its attention on pushing euthanasia laws through parliament, and it wasnt till after they were accepted that palliative care funding was considered.

Even then, the amount given was minimal. At a commitment of $62 million over a five-year period, the government was offering less than 20 per cent of what Palliative Care Victoria had told them was needed.

And its not like Victorian palliative care services didnt need the help.

Statistics released just last week by the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare show that Victoria has been woefully below the national average for Medicare-subsidised palliative care services since the time euthanasia was legalised.

In Australia, an average of 58 people in every 100,000 receive Medicare-subsidised palliative care visits, either in their home or in the hospital.

Despite being one of Australias most populated states, in Victoria, these Medicare-subsidised visits are available to only 41.6 people per 100,000.

This isnt because fewer people are using the same amount of services.

Victoria is also below the national average in relation to the number of services provided.

Around the country, states average 316.4 Medicare -subsidised palliative care visits per 100,000 people; in Victoria, this number is 234.6.

While it might be cynical to suggest that the lethal cocktail provided for assisted suicide is a lot cheaper than providing quality palliative care, it is also true. If Victoria was serious about providing end-of-life choices, then the number of Medicare-subsidised palliative care services it provides to its citizens should be the highest in Australia.

Unfortunately, there is about as much chance of that as there is a pro-abortionist offering pregnancy support.

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Look further into BLM history | Letters to the Editor – Cleveland Jewish News

Posted on July 10, 2020 by Danzig

Apparently neither Regina Brett (Black Lives Matter. Period, June 12) nor Ben Cohen (Get Your Knee Off Our Necks, June 12) read the Black Lives Matter platform.

The 2016 platform of BLM supports Omar Barghoutis anti-Semitic boycott, divestment and sanctions movement, which declares the Jewish people of Israel perpetrate genocide against Palestinians and Israel is an apartheid state. BLM deleted the anti-Semitism in its enabling document from its website.

Removing something is not revocation. It is just a PR move. Just as the Red Cross was conned by the Nazis in 1944, many Jews today are conned by BLMs PR move.

Barghouti has said the purpose of BDS is the euthanasia of the Zionist dream of Israel. Barghouti knows full well the Nazi T4 Euthanasia Program was the foundation of the Final Solution. Barghoutis use of the word euthanasia leaves no doubt he co-founded BDS to continue the anti-Semitic eliminationist mission formalized by Reinhard Heydrich and Adolf Eichmann at the Wannsee Conference.

A Jew can certainly rally for civil rights without getting in bed with the foundational anti-Semitism of BLM. It is worth remembering a 2002 op-ed by Congressman John Lewis in the San Francisco Chronicle. Lewis recalled the prescient words of Martin Luther King Jr: When people criticize Zionists, they mean Jews; youre talking anti-Semitism.

Not many years ago, prominent Jews made excuses for anti-Semites. It was called the Judenrat. We all know how that worked out.

Richard Sherman

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County renews animal services agreement with Animal Friends of the Valleys – Valley News

Posted on July 10, 2020 by Danzig

Animal Friends of the Valleys has a contract with the Southwest Communities Financing Authority for animal services in unincorporated southwest Riverside County and five incorporated cities. The county Board of Supervisors approved a renewal of that contract Tuesday, June 30.

The supervisors 5-0 vote gives Animal Friends of the Valleys a contract which took effect July 1 and will run through June 30, 2025. The previous agreement, which was approved in June 2015, covered the period from July 1, 2015, to June 30, 2020.

A November 2004 board of supervisors action approved the Southwest Communities Financing Authority which involves the cities of Canyon Lake, Lake Elsinore, Murrieta and Temecula as well as the county for the unincorporated portions of southwest Riverside County. An October 2010 amendment added the city of Wildomar to the joint powers authority. The Southwest Communities Financing Authority was created for the purpose of financing and constructing an animal shelter in southwest Riverside County.

Animal Friends of the Valleys is a nonprofit organization which was called Lake Elsinore Animal Friends when it was founded in 1987 and changed its name in 2000 to reflect the additional communities served. In January 2006, a memorandum of understanding was approved in which Animal Friends of the Valleys would assist the Southwest Communities Financing Authority with the development and construction of the animal shelter and would operate the shelter following the completion of the construction. Animal Friends of the Valleys leased land in Wildomar from the Elsinore Valley Municipal Water District. Construction on the 32,000-square-foot shelter began in 2008, and the shelter opened to the public in October 2010. The initial five-year operational agreement between the Southwest Communities Financing Authority and Animal Friends of the Valleys was approved in August 2010.

The duties to be performed by Animal Friends of the Valleys include custody of impounded or surrendered animals, identifying impounded animals with no owner contact including the posting of photographs on the shelter website by the following business day, conducting searches for guardians if information is available, treatment including temporarily transferring animals to another treatment center if the shelters treatment facilities are not sufficient, adoption, counseling and advising guardians who take an animal from the shelter, selling dog licenses for any dog at least four months old who is being transferred to a guardian and euthanasia and animal disposal if necessary. Animal Friends of the Valleys will also keep records of impoundments or surrenders including impoundments by municipal jurisdiction, immunizations, spaying and neutering, adoptions, returns to guardians and euthanasia including the reason.

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Life-and-death issues that could cost Premier election – Whitsunday Times

Posted on July 10, 2020 by Danzig

WITH Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk riding high in the popularity stakes, there's a strong belief - particularly in Labor circles - she is home and hosed at the October 31 poll.

It's a conclusion easily reached, because the perception is that the Premier has handled the coronavirus crisis well, protecting most Queenslanders from its deadly ravages.

But the jury is out on how voters will judge Labor's cautious approach to the economic recovery, after Ms Palaszczuk resisted attempts for weeks to open the borders, despite advice from Canberra that it was safe.

Ms Palaszczuk's likability and her "steady as she goes'' approach will stand Labor in good stead, although integrity scandals, high youth crime, poor economic performance - even before COVID-19 - and a child safety crisis will not help.

Before Labor strategists get too carried away and start stockpiling the Moet for the celebratory drinks on poll night, there are a couple of factors to consider before October 31.

Those closest to God go to church - and like those who fish, they vote.

Many were not happy when they saw thousands of people marching in the streets with no repercussions and they were stopped from going to Sunday Mass.

They are also upset with the Government's pro-abortion laws and the fact Labor has not ruled out voluntary assisted dying reforms, better known as euthanasia.

If you think the Christian vote doesn't influence the outcome of elections, take a look at the federal Brisbane seat of Longman.

Few people gave the Coalition any hope of winning the Brisbane seat of Longman at last year's federal poll.

Ten months before the May 2019 federal poll, the Labor Party had won the Longman by-election after incumbent Susan Lamb became embroiled in the so-called parliamentary eligibility crisis.

Lamb retained the seat after LNP candidate Trevor Ruthenberg was outed for claiming to have been the recipient of the Australian Service Medal, a distinction higher than what he had actually received, the Australian Defence Medal.

"If I screwed up then I screwed up and all I can do is apologise,'' he told The Courier-Mail's Steven Wardill, who broke the story.

And while the medal controversy did the LNP candidate no favours, there were other factors at play.

Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk yesterday. Picture: Attila Csaszar

The Longman by-election was a major test for then Labor leader Bill Shorten.

As such, the Labor Party threw everything at the election, spending hundreds of thousands of dollars on campaigning and advertising.

Had Labor lost, Shorten would have had to walk the plank.

Far-left agitators Get Up! doorknocked the electorate and honed in on a controversial healthcare policy of the then Turnbull government.

But there was another factor that is often underestimated in the Longman by-election post-mortem.

It was the Christian vote, more specifically the Catholic vote.

At the time, the Turnbull government was being attacked by the Catholic Church for its independent schools funding policy, which they said threatened the viability of their educational offerings.

On that Super Saturday of by-elections, Catholic and Anglican priests told parishioners to vote for any party other than the Coalition.

They did - in droves.

Mr Turnbull changed that education funding anomaly and after being dumped as leader, it was Prime Minister Scott Morrison who reaped the benefits of the Catholics returning to the conservative fold.

With Shorten's politics of envy, a terrible, complacent Labor campaign and Morrison fighting for his political life, the LNP's Terry Young won Longman at the general election. Labor strategists had put Longman in the column that said "certain win''. The arrogance and hubris that was the hallmark of the 2019 campaign had not factored in the Longman peculiarities.

The lesson from Longman was clear: Don't underestimate the Christian vote, because it votes as a bloc.

On October 31, they'll be voting for the LNP.

The pro-life movement - Cherish Life - is about to let Queensland voters know about Labor's strong pro-abortion stance.

It has drawn up a hit list of 14 Labor seats - and one held by the Greens - which they say are vulnerable on October 31.

They include Townsville, Whitsunday, Gaven, Mundingburra, Mansfield, Maiwar, Barron River, Redlands, Keppel, Cairns, Springwood, Redcliffe, Pine Rivers, Mount Ommaney and Thuringowa.

All seats are held by margins of up to 5 per cent.

Cherish Life will also mount campaigns to retain five LNP seats that it sees as crucial to an LNP win.

Cherish Life says, based on number-crunching from previous elections, it can influence a seat by anything up to 3.5 per cent.

It says many swinging voters are appalled that the new pro-abortion legislation, passed in State Parliament in 2018, allows babies to be aborted with the approval of two doctors right up to birth, or full term.

Women do not need any medical approval up to 22 weeks to have an abortion.

The Australian Family Association has opposed so-called voluntary-assisted-dying reforms.

It has written to a state parliamentary inquiry on aged care, end-of-life and palliative care and voluntary assisted dying suggesting funding for palliative care be substantially increased "so that all terminally ill patients can receive the end-of-life care to which they are entitled''.

Under current law, doctor-assisted suicide and euthanasia are criminal offences in Queensland.

It would be safe to assume that anybody who opposes abortion and euthanasia in Queensland will not vote Labor.

There is no doubt that billionaire Clive Palmer's advertising blitzkrieg against Bill Shorten hurt Labor at the last federal election.

He spent $68 million to unsuccessfully elect Palmer United Party people, but in real terms what he did was amplify and reaffirm the notion that Shorten was dodgy - he says one thing in St Kilda and another thing in Clermont. Palmer is gearing up for a similar campaign against Ms Palaszczuk.

After all, current LNP president Dave Hutchinson is controversially close to Palmer - some say too close.

Then there's One Nation and the Katter Party, formidable forces, particularly in the regions. Their preferences will help the conservatives and if there's a hung parliament, expect Katter and Hanson to side with the LNP to form government.

This contest is far from over. It will go the full distance. Expect a split decision by the judges.

Cherish Life protesters rally outside Brisbanes Parliament House in 2018 to protest the late-term abortion Bill.

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Frontrunner for the VA GOP’s 2021 Gubernatorial Nomination Rallies in Honor of Far-Right Paramilitary Group Member; As Del. Jay Jones Points Out, the…

Posted on July 10, 2020 by Danzig

How did you spend *your* fourth of July holiday? Probably not like the frontrunner for the Virginia GOPs 2021 gubernatorial nomination, Amanda Chase, who was hanging out in Richmond yesterday with her buddies including right-wing extremist groups, a gun club and white supremacists. Chase was also busy opining that Confederate monuments despite all historical evidence to the contrary are NOT symbols of hate. By the way, since the media didnt report this key information, for whatever reason(s), Chases rally yesterday was as she herself posted on Facebook in honor of Duncan Lemp. Who was Duncan Lemp, you ask? Heres the Wikipedia entry on his fatal shooting by police:

On March 12, 2020, Duncan Socrates Lempwas fatally shot at his home inPotomac, Maryland, during ano-knockpolice raidby the Montgomery County Police DepartmentsSWATteam.Lemp was astudentand asoftware developerwho associated himself with the3 Percenters, a far-right paramilitary militia group

Lemp associated himself with the3 Percenters, a far-right paramilitary militia group, and set up websites for other such organizations.He also frequented the4chanandRedditmessage boards, sites popular withinternet trolls.He was a member of theUnited States Transhumanist Party, having joined on September 6, 2019.A week before the raid, Lemp posted a picture of two people armed with rifles onInstagram, with text referring to boogaloo, a term used by theboogaloo movementas coded language for an anticipated war against the government or liberals.

Thats a pretty important piece of information youd think the media would have reported, by the way, butnope, that might take a minute or two of using Google or whatever. And god forbid they actually give their readers the full context of whats going on. Ugh.

Anyway, so what was the reaction from the Virginia GOP to State Senator Chases rally with white supremacists in honor of a former member of a far-right paramilitary militia group? So far, as Del. Jay Jones (D) pointed out a few minutes ago the silence is deafening here. And its not like Virginia Republicans werent tweeting yesterday; see the Virginia GOP Twitter feed, which has tweets on their U.S. Senate candidate, handing out Trump yard signs, etc. But anything on Chase and her white supremacists rally in Richmond yesterday. Nope, nada. Theres also nothing from the VA Senate GOP Twitter feed either on Chases Fourth of July festivities. Cat got the Virginia GOPs tongue? Do these folks actually *approve* of Chases behavior, are they just terrified of her, or both? Or, ultimately, do they realize that if they condemn Chase, theyd have to also condemn Trump and others in their own party, and thats something they cant bring themselves to do?

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Medici Ventures Congratulates SettleMint for its Recognition as a Top Start-up in Low-code Platforms by the Everest Group – GlobeNewswire

Posted on July 10, 2020 by Danzig

SALT LAKE CITY, July 10, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Medici Ventures, the wholly owned blockchain subsidiary of Overstock.com, Inc. (NASDAQ:OSTK), congratulates its blockchain-based company SettleMint for its recognition by the Everest Group in its report on the Top 14 Start-ups in Low-code Platforms.

SettleMint was recognized for its low-code applications that accelerate development of blockchain projects while containing cost. SettleMints Blockchain Platform as a Service provides advantages to businesses, developers, and IT leaders, including speed to project launch, transparency, efficiency, and resilience through its use of decentralized technology.

In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, where the fragility of centralized systems has been exposed, digital transformation is crucial to business survival. Use cases such as immunity passports, crowd control applications, and more efficient distribution of relief funds have materialized as a response to the pandemic. SettleMints use of low-code blockchain applications for these use cases enable businesses, governments, and other organizations to bridge the gap to a post-COVID-19 world.

Medici Ventures is pleased to see the Everest Group recognize the important work SettleMint is doing, said Jonathan Johnson, CEO of Overstock and president of Medici Ventures. SettleMints scalable low-code solution makes blockchain use case development and integration highly accessible to organizations and developers, which accelerates the much-needed digital overhaul of outdated centralized systems we currently rely on.

SettleMint is honored to receive the Everest Groups recognition, said SettleMint CEO, Matthew Van Niekerk. For large enterprises, trying and implementing new technologies can be challenging, but SettleMints solutions have enabled multiple enterprise players to pilot and implement decentralized ledger technology into their technology ecosystems with lower costs and greater efficiency.

Medici Ventures was founded in 2014 with a mission to change the world by accelerating the adoption of blockchain technology in order to fundamentally change the way in which we transact. Medici Ventures companies are introducing blockchain technology to industries including identity, land governance, money and banking, capital markets, supply chain, and voting. Medici Ventures is also committed to increasing public awareness and understanding of the use cases for and corresponding value of blockchain technology through public engagement and policymaker outreach.

About Everest Group

Everest Group is a consulting and research firm focused on strategic IT, business services, engineering services, and sourcing. We are trusted advisors to senior executives of leading enterprises, providers, and investors. Our firm helps clients improve operational and financial performance through a hands-on process that supports them in making well-informed decisions that deliver high-impact results and achieve sustained value. Our insight and guidance empowers clients to improve organizational efficiency, effectiveness, agility and responsiveness. What sets Everest Group apart is the integration of deep sourcing knowledge, problem-solving skills and original research. Details and in-depth content are available athttp://www.everestgrp.com.

About SettleMint

SettleMint is a leading Enterprise Blockchain and Distributed Ledger technology company helping organisations leverage the benefits of Blockchain technology whether to improve efficiency, to strengthen process resilience, to prove authenticity or to completely reinvent a business model with its Blockchain Platform as a Service solution. From network deployment to consortia forming to use case development to production deployment and integration with legacy systems. All this packaged in one integrated solution. SettleMint makes it easy to manage the complete blockchain application lifecycle.

About OverstockOverstock.com, IncCommon Shares (NASDAQ:OSTK) / Digital Voting Series A-1 Preferred Stock (Medici Ventures tZERO platform:OSTKO) / Series B Preferred (OTCQX:OSTBP)is an online retailer and technology company based inSalt Lake City, Utah. Its leading e-commerce website sells a broad range of new home products at low prices, including furniture, dcor, rugs, bedding, home improvement, and more. The online shopping site, which is visited by tens of millions of customers a month, also features a marketplace providing customers access to millions of products from third-party sellers. Overstock was the first major retailer to accept cryptocurrency in 2014, and in the same year foundedMedici Ventures, its wholly owned subsidiary dedicated to the development and acceleration of blockchain technologies to democratize capital, eliminate middlemen, and re-humanize commerce. Overstock regularly posts information about the Company and other related matters on theNewsroomandInvestor Relationspages on its website,Overstock.com.

O,Overstock.com, O.com, Club O, Main Street Revolution,and Worldstock are registered trademarksofOverstock.com, Inc.Other service marks, trademarks and trade names which may be referred to hereinare the property of their respective owners.

This press release contains certain forward-looking statements within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933 and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934. Such forward-looking statements include all statements other than statements of historical fact, including but not limited to statements regarding Overstocks expectations regarding SettleMint. Additional information regarding factors that could materially affect results and the accuracy of the forward-looking statements contained herein may be found in the Company's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2019, which was filed with the SEC on March 13, 2020, in our Form 10-Q for the quarter ended March 31, 2020, which was filed with the SEC on May 7, 2020, and in our subsequent filings with the SEC.

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Blockchain Technology Market Research, Recent Trends and Growth Forecast 2025 – CueReport

Posted on July 10, 2020 by Danzig

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Adoption of blockchain is not limited to the financial sector, however it is being implemented across different verticals. For example, with blockchain's extended support for Internet of Things (IoT), the technology and telecom vertical is implementing blockchain for initiating a better coordination between different devices. This sector is also benefitting from blockchain because of its feature to eliminate the processing fees which gets levied by third parties. Healthcare vertical is also focusing on blockchain for securing its important and sensitive data and documents and for securing its digital assets.

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According to a new study the global blockchain technology market is anticipated to reach USD 16.82 billion by 2026. Also termed as Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT), blockchain enables secure transaction over a distributed network. Since the transactions are taken place usually over the network, it is difficult to reverse the transaction history. Blockchain also eliminates the need of third-party verifications since the ledgers are shared by all the parties over the distributed network. These are some of the major factors for adoption of blockchain technology.

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Global Blockchain Technology Market: Drivers and Restraints: This section of the Blockchain Technology Market Analysis report we are covering various drivers and restraints that have affected the global Blockchain Technology market. The complete study of plentiful drivers of the market enables market professionals to get a clear viewpoint of the Blockchain Technology market share, which consists of Blockchain Technology industry environment, advancement market, product innovations, latest developments, and Blockchain Technology market risks.

Blockchain technology is currently being adopted majorly by the financial institutions due to its benefits such as reduced infrastructural costs for reconciling statements, data management settlements etc. It has also been proven beneficial to increase the transactional speed by eliminating the need of trusted third party. Bitcoin uses cryptography for securing its ledgers, thus ensures high security platform for the transactions.

The adoption of blockchain can be clearly seen in the North America followed by Europe at a fast pace. However, the market for blockchain is gaining traction in Asia Pacific region owing to the developing economies such as India and China adopting this technology. Countries such as Australia have already adopted this technology and are developing a private blockchain for its stock exchange's clearing and settlement process.

Key Findings from the study suggest the largest share of this market in 2017 was of North America, as there are a fundamentally high number of ventures adopting the blockchain technology. The technology will have the capacity to help IoT applications in technology and telecom sector along with the enhanced payment solutions. The healthcare segment will adopt this this technology owing to secure their sensitive information. Asia Pacific market is anticipated to grow at a faster pace because of its changing financial framework which drives the demand for secure and low-cost online payment transfers. Speculations have been that more companies would invest in this technology, thus tapping the huge potential in this market. Companies such as Chain Inc., Ripple, Eric Industries, Microsoft, Circle Internet Financial Limited, R3, Samsung, Deloitte, IBM, Deloitte, Linux Foundation, BTL Group, are some of the prominent players in this market.

Some of the Highlights about Table of Content of Blockchain Technology Market

1 Blockchain Technology Market overview

2 Executive Summary

3 Market Drivers, Challenges and Trends

4 Marketing, Distributors and Customer

5 Key Players Analysis

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