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Dictatorships have always been characterized by the fact that at a certain point it turns to the cult of personality. #Crosetto for #Meloni does not wait, it already does it in #CampagnaElettorale

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The Republican Army

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Four photos from the Mario Valich collection: jump in the sea (summer of 1931), a bike race near the Governor’s Palace (year unknown), Nelli and a doll (year unknown), fascists on the Kantrida football pitch (around 1935). 

Thanks to Sara M.

Comunità degli Italiani di Fiume, Rijeka/Fiume, 30 December 2021

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#Nazi #Azov Commander given #HeroofUkraine Honor by #Zelensky.

Any talk that the #Nazis in #Ukraine are separate, and the authorities are separate, can be ended. By #Zelenskyy’s decree, #AzovCommander #DenisProkopenko (nicknamed #Radish) was awarded the country’s highest #award - the title “HERO OF UKRAINE”.

We remind you that even in the West, “Azov” is considered a Nazi armed group.

The #UKgovernment confirmed weapons sent (sold) to Ukraine will go to the #NeoNazis too.

What have we become when supporting the #fascists we fought a #worldwar to stop?

Though over the last 2 years you could say our #EnglishSpeaking & #European #government’s have become #fascist too. Do you really support #fascism?

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Vichy France, early 1940s

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One week left until we're rallying as part of a national day of anti-fascist action! Make sure every anti-fascist you know is at one of the protests in Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane and Perth on Saturday 20 November. Be sure to follow the pages of each protest's organisers to get updates in the lead up to the day. Melbourne - PROTEST: Stop the far right in Melbourne! organised by Campaign Against Racism and Fascism (that's us!) Sydney - Protest: Oppose the Anti-Vax Far-Right organised by Campaign Against Racism and Fascism - Sydney Brisbane - BRISBANE PROTEST - Oppose the far right anti-vaxxers! organised by Campaign Against Racism and Fascism Brisbane Perth - Counter-protest against the far right covid deniers organised by United Against Bigotry & Racism

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Militia member given longest prison sentence yet for involvement in US Capitol attack

A US judge has issued a militia associate a prison sentence of seven years and three months - the longest yet for anyone involved in the US Capitol riots.

An associate of the Three Percenters militia has been sentenced to more than seven years in prison after he joined a mob of former president Donald Trump's supporters to storm the US Capitol on 6 January, 2021.

Guy Reffitt, of Wylie, Texas, was convicted by a jury in March of five felony charges, including bringing a gun onto the Capitol grounds and obstructing an official proceeding.

US District Judge Dabney Friedrich issued a prison sentence of seven years, three months - the longest yet for anyone involved in the riot.

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She also banned Reffitt from associating with militia groups and ordered him to undergo mental health treatment.

Earlier on Monday, the judge said she was troubled by Reffitt's actions and comments suggesting he wanted to overthrow Congress, calling his statements "frightening claims that border on delusional".

"In democracy, we respect a peaceful transfer of power," she said.

"The election was challenged in multiple courts across the country, and judge after judge said there's no merit to these claims."

Ms Friedrich declined to apply a domestic terrorism enhancement to her sentence - the first requested in a January 6 case — even though the lead federal prosecutor and a former Capitol Police officer who provided a victim impact statement both said they believed Reffitt committed an act of terrorism that day.

Reffitt "intended to harm members of Congress," former Capitol Police officer Shauni Kerkhoff told the court, adding that she "watched in horror as he encouraged the angry mob to push past".

Reffitt, 49 at the time of his conviction, never entered the Capitol but video evidence showed him egging on the crowd and leading other rioters up a set of stairs outside the building.

His trial included testimony from his estranged son Jackson, who brought his father to tears as he told the jury that his father threatened him if he dared call the FBI.

"He said, 'If you turn me in, you're a traitor, and traitors get shot,'" Jackson Reffitt told jurors.

At his sentencing, prosecutors introduced evidence showing Reffitt intended to commit additional acts of violence.

In one text exchange, he told other militia members: "We took the Capital of the United States of America and we will do it again."

His daughter, Peyton, addressed the court, tearing up as she told the judge: "As I know my father, he is not a threat to my family," adding, that his mental health "is a real issue".

Jackson Reffitt also wrote a letter that was read aloud in court. "I hope to see my father use all the safety nets" available at prison, including mental health care, he added.

Ahead of the sentence announcement, Reffitt said in 2020, he was "a little too crazy" and openly apologised to police and his family.

"I want nothing to do with this stuff anymore. I want nothing to do with militia groups... I am so sorry," he said.

Reffitt was the first Capitol rioter to go to trial in the US District Court for the District of Columbia.

To date, federal prosecutors have won convictions in all but one of 13 trials tied to the Capitol attack.

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“Russizm”: Contemporary Russian Imperialist Ideology. Part 1. Why does Vladimir Putin want to restore the USSR and communism? On February 24, 2022, the Russian Federation started a wholescale invasion of Ukraine. What is the main political goal behind that? There is no secret that the President of Russia, Vladimir Putin, wants to restore the USSR. Indeed, since 2008, Putin time and again stressed that the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991 was the “biggest geopolitical catastrophe of the 20th century.”

Written by Andrii Leonov Former Fulbright Scholar Former Edmund S. Muskie Fellow Doctoral student in Philosophy, SIU Carbondale, IL, USA

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Rehearsal of the parade in St. Petersburg. Pay attention to the ribbons on the hands! Hitler and Putin would be a sweet married couple!!! #Russia #Putin #PutinWarCriminal #Russiaaggressor #UkraineWar #парад #9мая #Питер #рашизм #russizm

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Militia member given longest prison sentence yet for involvement in US Capitol attack

A US judge has issued a militia associate a prison sentence of seven years and three months - the longest yet for anyone involved in the US Capitol riots.

An associate of the Three Percenters militia has been sentenced to more than seven years in prison after he joined a mob of former president Donald Trump's supporters to storm the US Capitol on 6 January, 2021.

Guy Reffitt, of Wylie, Texas, was convicted by a jury in March of five felony charges, including bringing a gun onto the Capitol grounds and obstructing an official proceeding.

US District Judge Dabney Friedrich issued a prison sentence of seven years, three months - the longest yet for anyone involved in the riot.

Advertisement

She also banned Reffitt from associating with militia groups and ordered him to undergo mental health treatment.

Earlier on Monday, the judge said she was troubled by Reffitt's actions and comments suggesting he wanted to overthrow Congress, calling his statements "frightening claims that border on delusional".

"In democracy, we respect a peaceful transfer of power," she said.

"The election was challenged in multiple courts across the country, and judge after judge said there's no merit to these claims."

Ms Friedrich declined to apply a domestic terrorism enhancement to her sentence - the first requested in a January 6 case — even though the lead federal prosecutor and a former Capitol Police officer who provided a victim impact statement both said they believed Reffitt committed an act of terrorism that day.

Reffitt "intended to harm members of Congress," former Capitol Police officer Shauni Kerkhoff told the court, adding that she "watched in horror as he encouraged the angry mob to push past".

Reffitt, 49 at the time of his conviction, never entered the Capitol but video evidence showed him egging on the crowd and leading other rioters up a set of stairs outside the building.

His trial included testimony from his estranged son Jackson, who brought his father to tears as he told the jury that his father threatened him if he dared call the FBI.

"He said, 'If you turn me in, you're a traitor, and traitors get shot,'" Jackson Reffitt told jurors.

At his sentencing, prosecutors introduced evidence showing Reffitt intended to commit additional acts of violence.

In one text exchange, he told other militia members: "We took the Capital of the United States of America and we will do it again."

His daughter, Peyton, addressed the court, tearing up as she told the judge: "As I know my father, he is not a threat to my family," adding, that his mental health "is a real issue".

Jackson Reffitt also wrote a letter that was read aloud in court. "I hope to see my father use all the safety nets" available at prison, including mental health care, he added.

Ahead of the sentence announcement, Reffitt said in 2020, he was "a little too crazy" and openly apologised to police and his family.

"I want nothing to do with this stuff anymore. I want nothing to do with militia groups... I am so sorry," he said.

Reffitt was the first Capitol rioter to go to trial in the US District Court for the District of Columbia.

To date, federal prosecutors have won convictions in all but one of 13 trials tied to the Capitol attack.

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Four photos from the Mario Valich collection: jump in the sea (summer of 1931), a bike race near the Governor’s Palace (year unknown), Nelli and a doll (year unknown), fascists on the Kantrida football pitch (around 1935). 

Thanks to Sara M.

Comunità degli Italiani di Fiume, Rijeka/Fiume, 30 December 2021

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“Russizm”: Contemporary Russian Imperialist Ideology. Part 1. Why does Vladimir Putin want to restore the USSR and communism? On February 24, 2022, the Russian Federation started a wholescale invasion of Ukraine. What is the main political goal behind that? There is no secret that the President of Russia, Vladimir Putin, wants to restore the USSR. Indeed, since 2008, Putin time and again stressed that the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991 was the “biggest geopolitical catastrophe of the 20th century.”

Written by Andrii Leonov Former Fulbright Scholar Former Edmund S. Muskie Fellow Doctoral student in Philosophy, SIU Carbondale, IL, USA

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One hundred years ago out of the ravages of World War One emerged a new political arrangement in Germany called the Weimar Republic. It lasted 14 years between 1919 and 1933. It was Germany's first experience with democracy. It strove to provide pellucidity to political processes including freedom of association and a free media. In the 1920s, the principal media vehicles in Germany were newspapers and the radio. By 1932, there were 2,483 newspapers, both daily and weekly, catering to a population of 65 million people. An atmosphere of permissiveness and liberalism pervaded the environment.

However, this progressive culture did not last long. In the latter years of the Weimar Republic, newspapers, particularly their proprietors, developed a maniacal fascination with the National Socialists and, in particular, Adolf Hitler.  

With the help of a fawning media, the Nazis ascended to power in Germany in 1933. The Nazis wanted complete control of the mindspace and the newspapers obliged them by becoming willing collaborators.  Business-run newspapers were rapidly co-opted as the Third Reich established itself. Most of them happily made the transition from a culture of active citizenry to one of unthinking obedience.

The Nazis did not nationalise Germany's newspapers. What they in fact did was far simpler — they just bullied any remaining publishers critical of Adolf Hitler’s grandiose fantasies into subjugation and made them sell their businesses to those amenable to the Nazi worldview. Not merely satisfied by coercing recalcitrant newspaper owners to part with their establishments, they tightened control even on the co-opted by enacting the Editors Law -— Schriftleitergesetz — on the 4th of October, 1933, that mandated that newspapers must proscribe any reportage intended to diminish the métier of the Reich abroad or at home. This ambiguous directive made publishers responsible for bowdlerising their own publications and ensuring they did not print information or opinions critical of the Nazi government. Joseph Goebbels and his Ministry of People’s Enlightenment and Propaganda provided copious doses of Nazi lies —the original fake news — to pad the by-now-vacant columns of newspapers.

Not having the conviction of courage to oppose the Nazi steamroller, editors and journalists who till yesterday held themselves out as the poster boys of liberalism willingly marched goose step to goose step in perfect synchronicity with the Nazi system. The chilling effect of this co-option, cooperation and a conscious conversion of the “conscience” best manifested itself on Kristallnacht — the night of the broken glass — when on the 9th and 10th of November, 1938, the Nazis systematically destroyed Jewish property and murdered over a hundred Jews.  German newspapers blacked out Kristallnacht as if nothing had happened. Between 1933 and 1938, the prostration of the German press was complete.  All it took the Nazis was five years to get the German newspapers to crawl on all fours.  Mark the phrase, five years.

Having subjugated the national press, the Nazis turned their attention to the   international media. Critical foreign newspapers were banned within a year of Nazis usurping power.  Even large British-American agencies such as Keystone and Wide World Photos were forced to close their bureaus after being targeted for engaging Jewish journalists. Only those international newspapers and wire agencies that conceded control of their content by endorsing the Editors Law and foreswearing not to publish any reportage, column or editorial that in the opinion of the Nazis may be “calculated to weaken the strength of the Reich abroad or at home” were permitted to function. The Editors Law obligated international newspapers and wire agencies to hire reporters who concurrently served with the Nazi party’s propaganda division. Herr Hitler personally curated the content and photographs that were disseminated abroad by those wire agencies and other international publications that had made the Faustian bargain.

In Italy, too, a similar thing happened in the wake of the First World War. Benito Amilcare Andrea Mussolini became Prime Minister of Italy in 1922. He dismantled all democratic institutions and by 1925 and declared himself “Il Duce” — the leader.  Italian Fascism rested on a tenuous balance, predicated by mass confidence juxtaposed with terror. The aspirations of this pernicious project extended not only to the executive, judiciary and economic organisation of the state but had, as its most critical element, the reformatting of the minds of the Italian people.  

The Fascists believed that this aspect was critical to reshaping their intrinsic internalisation of Fascism in perpetuity. To achieve this end, absolute control over all elements of information dissemination was critical. Co-option of, collaboration with and suppression of the newspaper industry were, therefore, a foremost priority.

A dexterous polemicist, Mussolini was penetratingly mindful of the linkage between the perpetuation of power and optics. In 1929, Mussolini decreed a High Commission for the Press. He averred that the said institution would not interfere with the freedom of the press. However, Mussolini’s minister of justice Alfredo Rocco, carved out exceptions to even these sanctimonious homilies for coming down with an iron fist on non-pliant newspapers. Loosely worded formulations subject to the most expansive interpretation, namely “any activity contrary to the national interest” and “faithfulness to the Fatherland” were routinely abused to stamp out any vestiges of dissent. This was, however, unnecessary, for the voluntary capitulation of the media to the Fascist enterprise was by then complete and total.

Reporters and editors were “stimulated” to understand their vocation was a service to the nation. They were encouraged to believe that inculcation of Fascism among the Italian people was their true calling. Mussolini perceived himself to be a radical and his régime being an organic quintessence of transformative dogmas of myriad persuasions. The communication of these philosophies and the institutionalisation of mass subservience to the Fascist ideal in Mussolini’s worldview was the cardinal obligation of the Italian press.  It was blasphemous for the newspapers to even countenance the conception of oppositional commentary, of holding actions of state to any inquiry and examination much less account. This was an infection was decisively purged from the collective psyche of the nation's journalists and editors once and for all. The Fascists were indeed spectacularly successful in achieving this goal.

Mussolini believed that that the Fascist project required a committed press. The country's newspapers must stand as a solid bloc zealously committed to the “Cause”. They must obfuscate, or even better, bury, every fact, development or story hostile or negative to it. Even more than editing or expurgation, Mussolini preferred this kind of abasement from the press. In Fascist Italy, self-policing by the media was as imperative as legal proscriptions.

Finally when it all ended, Adolf Hitler and his mistress committed suicide and Mussolini and his mistress were executed, but both Germany and Italy paid a heavy price because their institutions refused to stand up and be counted when needed.

The writer is a lawyer, a member of Parliament and former Union information and broadcasting minister. The views expressed here are personal.

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BENDIGO LAW COURT

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A crowd of neo-Nazis at TPUSA's Student Action Summit shortly before Donald Trump's speech. It is the supporters of Florida Governor Ron DeSantis who waved the "DeSantis Country." #matrix

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But what are you bothering about this #NYT article dear @Ollolanda_ it will not be that they pull holes again in the history of the #turned 😂😂😂😂 #giorgia #fascisti Ma cosa ti inccazzi per sto articolo del #NYT cara @Ollolanda_ sarà mica che tirano fori di nuovo la storia del #girato 😂😂😂😂😂 #giorgia #fascisti