The Lithuanian parliament’s resolution branding Russia a “supporter of terrorism” amounts to “provocation, extremism and political hypocrisy,” Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said. Earlier this week, the Baltic country’s lawmakers unanimously passed a resolution stating that “the Russian Federation, whose military forces deliberately and systematically bomb civilian targets, is …
Read More »Pentagon’s new extremism rules extend to ‘likes’ – reports
The new rules were rolled out on Monday, Department of Defense officials told AP, though the official document has not been made publicly available yet. It is the first update to the extremism policy since 2012. The update focuses “exclusively on actions” as opposed to “any particular ideology or any …
Read More »Countdown to Great Deplatforming part 2? PayPal partners with ADL against ‘extremism & hate’
The ADL and PayPal have banded together to “fight extremism and hate” by limiting users’ ability to donate money using the popular online payment processor, the advocacy group said on Monday. “PayPal and ADL will focus on further uncovering and disrupting the financial pipelines that support extremist and hate movements,” …
Read More »Big Brother spy agency claims ‘extremism’ is Germany’s new virus… but it’s only the far-right variant it seems to be worried about
One of the problems public health officials face with treating Covid-19 is that it presents in so many ways, and the increasing number of variants all have their own characteristics – high temperature, continuous cough, loss of taste and smell, and in Germany’s case, apparently, a tendency towards political extremism. …
Read More »Anti-lockdown movement is breeding ground for far-right extremism, says German intelligence agency
Speaking on Tuesday, Angela Pley, a spokeswoman for the BfV domestic security agency, said it was carefully watching members of the ‘Querdenker’, or ‘Lateral Thinkers’ movement, which has been involved in the organization of increasingly violent protests against Covid-19 lockdowns. The group’s members include conspiracy theorists as well as many …
Read More »Biden administration wants to use third-party ‘extremism’ researchers to spy on Americans – media
In the aftermath of the pro-Trump riot on Capitol Hill in January, the Biden administration, with the support of sympathetic media outlets and pundits, focused the intelligence-gathering powers of the state inwards. Biden added members to a domestic extremism team on the National Security Council, the Department of Homeland Security …
Read More »Australian spy chief dumps ‘right-wing’ & ‘Islamic’ extremism terms – that’s woke nonsense and denial of reality
The Australian intelligence service risks making an international laughing stock of its efforts to combat terrorism after its boss announced it will no longer use labels ‘right wing’ and ‘Islamic’ when speaking of extremism. “Words matter,” Australian Security and Intelligence Organisation (ASIO) chief Mike Burgess told the nation on Wednesday, …
Read More »Biden requests ‘threat assessment’ on ‘domestic extremism & role of social media’ in Capitol riot
The “comprehensive threat assessment” was assigned to Biden’s intelligence chief on Friday, press secretary Jen Psaki told reporters, announcing a three-pronged effort against “domestic violent extremism,” what she deemed a “serious and growing” danger. “The Biden administration will confront this threat with the necessary resources and resolve,” Psaki said. “We …
Read More »‘A strike against breeding ground for extremism’: Austrian police arrest 30 people with suspected links to Islamist groups
As part of the action, dubbed Operation Ramses, police searched 60 apartments, houses, and businesses early on Monday morning. The raids were carried out in Vienna and the regions of Styria, Carinthia, and Lower Austria. The authorities have arrested 30 people with suspected links to the Islamist groups Hamas and …
Read More »Egor Zhukov pleaded guilty to incitement to extremism
The defendant in the “Moscow business” Egor Zhukov is not recognized in court guilty of incitement to extremism. About it reports TASS. Consideration of the merits began today in Kuntsevsky court of Moscow. “Not pleaded guilty. Yes, I believe a number of present Russian politicians by their political opponents, but …
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