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Re: Military subverters
DIR By: 90sRetroFan
Date: January 9, 2021, 10:40 pm
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HTML https://www.yahoo.com/news/rioter-seen-senate-floor-combat-145400571.html
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> A rioter dressed in full combat gear and carrying zip-tie
handcuffs during the US Capitol siege is a decorated US Air
Force veteran, the New Yorker reported Saturday.
>
> An article by Ronan Farrow named the man, seen in photos from
Wednesday's attack, as Larry Rendall Brock Jr.
>
> Farrow said that Brock was a lieutenant colonel in the Air
Force, a senior rank that usually requires 15 years of service
to achieve.
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There are definitely more like him that we don't know about yet.
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Re: Military subverters
DIR By: 90sRetroFan
Date: January 11, 2021, 12:49 am
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See?
HTML https://us.yahoo.com/news/lawmaker-army-secretary-investigate-troops-234430204.html
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> McCarthy told Crow that at least 25 domestic terrorism cases
had been opened following the Capitol assaults, according to the
readout, and that weapons including long guns, explosive devices
and Molotov Cocktails were recovered, "which suggests a greater
disaster was narrowly averted."
> ...
> Crow asked McCarthy that military members involved in the riot
-- some military veterans have already been identified as
participants -- receive fast-tracked investigation and
courts-martial. He also made an unusual request: that the Army's
Criminal Investigation Command review National Guard troops who
are deployed for the inauguration "to ensure that deployed
members are not sympathetic to domestic terrorists."
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Re: Red coup
DIR By: guest5
Date: January 12, 2021, 1:37 am
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How Military Service Prepared Rep. Crow For Capitol Invasion
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> Rep. Jason Crow (D-CO) discusses his experiences serving in
Iraq and Afghanistan, and how it helped him navigate the Capitol
invasion. He tells Lawrence O’Donnell that as an Army Ranger
overseas he was trained and prepared for the environment, and on
Wednesday “none of us were ever expecting to be in that
position, as vulnerable as we were that day.”
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HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DTmp-QrXmxQ
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Re: Military subverters
DIR By: guest5
Date: January 13, 2021, 11:41 pm
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The military has a hate group problem. But it doesn't know how
bad it's gotten.
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> The rise of extremism in the ranks is seen as a "crisis issue"
but the military's efforts to weed out radicals are "haphazard"
at best.
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> The Pentagon is confronting a resurgence of white supremacy
and other right-wing ideologies in the ranks and is scrambling
to track how acute the problem has become in the Trump era.
>
> It's an issue that has simmered in the military for years, but
is now front and center following signs that former military
personnel played a role in the deadly attack on the U.S. Capitol
last week.
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> Tackling the influence of hate groups, racist propaganda and
anti-government sentiment in the officer corps and enlisted
ranks must be an immediate task for Joe Biden’s pick for
secretary of Defense, retired Gen. Lloyd Austin, according to
lawmakers, retired military leaders and experts on extremism. If
confirmed, Austin would be the first Black defense secretary.
>
> “There is a crisis issue: the rise of extremism and white
supremacy in the ranks,” Rep. Jason Crow (D-Colo.), a retired
Army officer and member of the House Armed Services Committee,
said in an interview. “That has been fueled by President
[Donald] Trump, unfortunately. So that has to be dealt with
right away and unequivocally. That’s top of the list.”
>
> The overall problem of right-wing extremism has dogged the
military for decades and tends to be more severe when there is a
rise in wider society.
>
> It has gained new attention in the wake of the revelation that
a retired senior Air Force officer allegedly took part in last
Wednesday's riot in the U.S. Capitol and a Navy veteran who also
played a leading role was arrested over the weekend. Meanwhile,
a rioter who was killed while trying to break into Speaker Nancy
Pelosi's office suite was also an Air Force veteran who espoused
far-right and QAnon conspiracies.
--- End Quote ---
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> In another sign of the challenge, the Army on Monday announced
it was ousting a junior officer who was investigated for posting
a video to his 3 million TikTok followers joking about Jews
being exterminated in Nazi concentration camps.
>
> The recent events are coming less than a month after the
acting Defense secretary directed a review of Pentagon policies
meant to address hate groups in the military, which will include
recommendations for punishing those who take part in extremist
activity.
>
> A 2020 survey found that more than one-third of all
active-duty troops and more than half of minority service
members reported witnessing first-hand examples of white
nationalism or other ideologically-driven racism.
>
> “The number of extremists in the military has increased due to
a higher percentage of white supremacists attempting to join the
military and the development of white supremacist leanings among
some currently-serving personnel,” Mark Pitcavage, a specialist
on far-right groups for the Anti-Defamation League, told the
House Armed Services Committee last year.
>
> “To an even greater degree than in previous surges of
extremism," he added, "the Internet has played a role in the
present one, with extremist content found on websites,
discussion forums, chat rooms, social media, messaging apps,
gaming and streaming sites, and other platforms."
>
> Pitcavage recounted a litany of incidents involving right-wing
extremists in the ranks over the past few years, including:
troops offering to teach how to make explosives and target
left-wing activists, joining pro-Nazi organizations and
traveling to Ukraine without orders to train with a right-wing
militia. A Florida National Guardsman even founded a neo-Nazi
group.
>
> But the military’s record of detecting such elements is
“haphazard” at best, Pitcavage told POLITICO.
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HTML https://www.politico.com/news/2021/01/11/military-right-wing-extremism-457861?utm_source=pocket-newtab
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Re: Military subverters
DIR By: 90sRetroFan
Date: January 15, 2021, 10:59 pm
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HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MiAaOOCef58
HTML https://gizmodo.com/leaked-parler-data-points-to-users-at-police-stations-1846059897
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> Location data gleaned from thousands of videos posted on the
social network Parler and extracted in the days before Amazon
restricted access to app this week, reveal its users included
police officers around the U.S. and service members stationed on
bases at home and abroad.
>
> The presence on Parler of active military and police raises
concerns, experts said, about their potential exposure to
far-right conspiracy theories and extremist ideologies enabled
by the platform’s practically nonexistent moderation and its
stated openness to hate speech. Military officials have long
considered infiltration and recruitment by white supremacist
groups a threat. Groups that endorsed a wide range of racist
beliefs appear to have been operating openly on Parler, the
experts said, with the de facto permission of its owners. The
FBI has likewise raised concerns over law enforcement agents
adopting radical views and being recruited—viewing their access
to secured buildings, elected officials, and other VIPs as a
singular threat.
> ...
> In total, Gizmodo found that 16 Parler videos were filmed
within 50 feet of 10 different local law enforcement buildings,
according to GPS data tied to the footage; 39 videos were filmed
within 1,000 feet of domestic military facilities; and another
64 were filmed within 500 feet of the entrance of an immigrant
detention center. Five additional videos were filmed within
1,000 feet of overseas military bases.
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So ICE and CBP really do have the most racists! Who would have
guessed?
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> A video posted to Parler in June of 2020, for instance, was
apparently filmed just outside the entrance of the Adelanto ICE
Processing Center in San Bernardino, California. A harrowing
2018 report from the DHS’ Office of Inspector General discovered
nooses hanging from detainees’ cells and inadequate medical care
at the facility.
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But the military racists are also dangerous:
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> The U.S. military has long considered infiltration and
recruitment by white supremacist groups a threat. In 2018, the
Air Force Reserve booted a recruit who was filmed in a vehicle
on a dark road with others saying they were out “hunting” Black
people (they used the N-word instead). In 2019, a U.S. Coast
Guard officer arrested on drug and firearms charges was
discovered to be a self-proclaimed white supremacist who
idolized Anders Breivik, the Norwegian terrorist who murdered 77
people in 2011. The Military Times, whose polls documented
increases in incidents of racism in the military in recent
years, says the results suggest “ongoing problems with
infiltration of the military by extremist groups.” A 2017 poll
found that nearly 42% of non-white service members have seen
examples of white nationalism in the service (versus about 18%
of white service members.)
>
> Jeff McCausland, a retired U.S. Army colonel and former member
of the National Security Council, wrote in 2019 that while
historically, the U.S. military has not sought to actively
recruit extremists, “it has failed to establish a comprehensive
way to screen them out.”
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What kind of people join the US military is heavily influenced
by US foreign policy. The reason why so many racists join the US
military is because they see the US with a pattern over many
decades of waging war almost exclusively against "Third World"
countries (Korea, Vietnam, Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, etc.),
therefore are predictably enthusiastic about joining an
organization that will allow them to kill large numbers of
"non-whites". Would these same racists be anywhere near as
enthusiastic about joining the US military if the US
hypothetically had a consistent pattern of waging war
exclusively against Western countries (including Israel)? Of
course not. If the US had such a noble foreign policy, we would
get virtually no racists joining the military, and many more
anti-racists enthusiastically joining instead.
So the answer is simple. If you want an anti-racist military,
first establish an anti-racist foreign policy.
(This is why I keep coming back to the glorious US bombing of
Serbia as what could have been the turning point towards a
leftist hawkism. Of course, a few years later, 9/11 happened to
put things back the way our enemies want them.....)
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Re: Military subverters
DIR By: guest5
Date: January 17, 2021, 10:21 pm
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21 US Military Veterans Identified in Capitol Assault
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> The storming of the Capitol bears all the signs of a skilled
military operation, experts now say. Finding out where the
insurrectionists got their training is "a tier one priority" of
investigators, who have identified at least twenty-one US
Military veterans as having participated in the riot and siege
of the Capitol. Men in combat gear were captured on camera using
a tactic known as ranger file to push through the crowd and make
their way into the Capitol. Many rioters wore flak jackets and
helmets.
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HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LwPnAlV0evU
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Re: Military subverters
DIR By: guest5
Date: January 18, 2021, 10:53 pm
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FBI Vetting Guard Troops; New Footage Goes Inside Capitol Siege
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> The FBI is vetting all of the 25,000 National Guard troops
coming into D.C. for the inauguration due to fears of an insider
attack. Meanwhile, New Yorker footage shows new images of the
chaos during the Capitol siege.
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HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QDjtMeONIOQ&list=TLPQMTkwMTIwMjEkVNPVIdz3YA&index=2
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Re: Military subverters
DIR By: rp
Date: January 21, 2021, 4:43 pm
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Meeting on military response to Capitol Hill riot included Mike
Flynn's brother:
HTML https://youtu.be/DAqABAREPJk
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Re: Military subverters
DIR By: guest5
Date: January 26, 2021, 6:30 pm
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The right-wing extremists plot to overthrow the German
government | DW Documentary
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> Amid reports of right-wing extremist activity in the German
police and armed forces, radical groups are said to be preparing
a coup against the government. The federal Interior Ministry has
promised to crack down on right-wing groups.
>
> Concerns are growing about reports of right-wing extremist
activity in the German police and armed forces -- but senior
officers and politicians seem reluctant to deal with the
situation.
>
> Journalist Dirk Laabs has found evidence that far-right
conspirators illegally received ammunition from government
warehouses, stockpiled weapons, and made concrete plans for a
coup attempt -- to be known as "Day X."
>
> The attempt was supposedly to be carried out during a time of
national emergency -- like the current coronavirus crisis. Some
domestic security experts, including the Left Party’s Martina
Renner, are worried about these developments. Renner says this
may be the moment that the alleged plotters were waiting for.
>
> In June 2019, several current and former officers of an elite
police unit in the state of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern were
arrested, suspected of supplying one of these far-right
conspirators with large quantities of ammunition. Investigators
say that the ammo came from military and police units from all
over Germany, including the states of Bavaria and North
Rhine-Westphalia. Authorities in those two states have not yet
been able to explain how the ammunition ended up in
Mecklenburg-Vorpommern.
>
> Fears about right-wing activity among the German police and
military have been growing for years. In December 2019, Interior
Minister Horst Seehofer announced plans to expand and strengthen
federal police agencies that are involved in the effort to
combat right-wing extremism and terrorism.
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HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XeEr3rQxfdw
Keep in mind this documentary is 6 months old, the U.S. Capitol
insurrection took place in the U.S. 6 months later.
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Re: Military subverters
DIR By: guest5
Date: February 6, 2021, 12:05 pm
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Pentagon, stumped by extremism in ranks, orders stand-down in
next 60 days
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> WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. military on Wednesday
acknowledged it was unsure about how to address white
nationalism and other extremism in its ranks, and announced
plans for military-wide stand-downs pausing regular activity at
some point in the next 60 days to tackle the issue.
>
> The decision to a hold a stand-down was made by Lloyd Austin,
who made history by becoming the military’s first Black defense
secretary after a long career rising in the ranks of the Army.
In his confirmation hearing, Austin underscored the need to rid
the military of “racists and extremists”.
>
> Pentagon spokesman John Kirby said Austin ordered the
stand-down after a meeting with the U.S. military branch
leaders, who are under pressure to show progress in combating
extremism after current and former military servicemembers were
found to have participated in the siege of the U.S. Capitol on
Jan. 6.
>
> The Pentagon has yet to define how it will deal with extremism
or offer data estimating how many service members hold white
nationalist ideology. It has also not disclosed how many troops
have been disciplined for extremism.
>
> “We don’t know how we’re going to be able to get after this in
a meaningful, productive, tangible way and that is why he had
this meeting today and that is why he certainly ordered this
stand-down,” Kirby told reporters.
>
> It was unclear whether the announcement was meant to
foreshadow any near-term concrete actions by President Joe
Biden’s Pentagon or whether the stand-down was more of a
symbolic move, meant to demonstrate Austin’s acknowledgement of
the problem and continued resolve.
>
> The Pentagon did not define whether stand-downs pausing
regular activity across the U.S. military might last minutes or
hours, or what commanders would do during that time to express
opposition to extremism.
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HTML https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-biden-pentagon-extremism/pentagon-stumped-by-extremism-in-ranks-orders-stand-down-in-next-60-days-idUSKBN2A335W
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