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Price Forecast for Bitcoin and 2 Altcoins, From Crypto Research Head – Business Insider – Business Insider

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Fate loves irony. Just one day before the bitcoin bull run of 2017 topped out, one of South Korea's best professional esports players Jeon "ikssu" Ik-soo announced that he was retiring to become a full-time crypto trader.

As bitcoin entered into a multi-year bear market , Ik-soo had to quietly come back to pro-gaming. However, his shocking move put cryptocurrencies on the radar of many esports enthusiasts.

One of them is Joseph Edwards, who was a professional esports coach and analyst for several teams in North America and Brazil at the time. As he fell into the crypto rabbit hole, the Oxford grad decided to make a bold transition into another emerging industry.

Today, Edwards wears a very different hat as the head of research at Enigma Securities, a cryptocurrency firm in London focusing on liquidity and treasury solutions.

He is not the only one who naturally gravitates towards gaming and crypto. The 29-year-old FTX billionaire founder Sam Bankman-Fried has said that he is "(in)famous for playing League of Legends while on phone calls."

Edwards thinks there is a natural overlap between pro gaming and crypto. Whether it's the demand for adaptability, the young demographics, or the competition, hustlers in both industries have to go above and beyond.

"Crypto, just like esports, is an industry where there's no barrier of entry and there are like 100,000 people just behind you who want to do what you're doing better than you," Edwards said in an interview. "Adaptability and competitiveness, you have to be both of those things because if you're not, then somebody else will take it from you."

Having worked in the crypto industry for just about two years, Edwards has already found success forecasting bitcoin's price trajectory.

When bitcoin broke above $20,000 for the first time ever in mid-December last year, he issued a research note mapping out its path to $60,000 a milestone it cleared in mid-March.

"If BTC reaches even 10% of the market cap of gold on a nominal basis, it implies a fully diluted valuation of $60,000 or 3x from current levels, 19x from the cycle nadir in 2019," he wrote in the Dec. 16 note.

Right now, as bitcoin trades just below $40,000 after a massive short squeeze sent it surging 22% in the past seven days, Edwards expects to see another short-term spike followed by more drawdowns in September.

The next leg-up is likely to be another mechanical move caused by a shift in the retail-driven crypto derivatives markets over the past two months, according to Edwards.

He explains that the collateral for crypto derivatives contracts has historically been held in bitcoin, but traders are increasingly using US dollars or stablecoin Tether as collateral, resulting in about 64% of all open interest being held in USD- or stablecoin-denominated derivatives.

"If you are holding bitcoin as collateral, your collateral is worth less over time as the price goes down, so you get liquidated more easily," he said. "Whereas on the upside, collateral price is going up, so it's a lot harder to get liquidated if you're shorting the market."

Edwards believes that the recent break to the upside has been assisted by the fact that all these collaterals are being held in US dollars, which caused the shorts to be liquidated and squeezed.

Another such squeeze could lift bitcoin to the $45,000 to $46,000 range in the next month, but bitcoin will likely grind lower as more regulatory actions are announced in September, he said.

In the long term, he is betting on bitcoin to hit $250,000 by 2025 as it reaches 20% to 25% of gold's market cap and the entire crypto market develops into a $10 trillion market.

Unlike many bullish forecasters, Edwards thinks cryptocurrencies have already plunged into a bear market, but the end of that bear market is probably nearer in sight than people would expect.

"For the most part, what retail investors should probably be doing in crypto bear markets is stepping back for a few months," he said. "You can't really escape a crypto bear market by going into altcoins. If bitcoin does go down further, we will see further drawdowns across the board."

Over the long term, he is "genuinely interested" in the fundamentals of the Solana (SOL) and Algorand (ALGO) protocols.

Solana, which is designed to facilitate the creation of decentralized applications, aims to improve scalability by introducing a hybrid of proof-of-history and proof-of-stake models. In some regards, it is cheaper, faster, and easier to use than ethereum.

"Do I think Solana is going to get to 30% to 40% of ethereum's market cap? It's not certain but there is definitely the potential," Edwards said. "Over the next five years, if it succeeds, Solana can easily go up 15 times to 20 times versus the rest of the ecosystem."

Algorand, which powers decentralized finance activities as ethereum does, similarly claims to enable faster transaction speeds, lower costs, and improved security compared to other blockchains. It is also committed to being environmentally green and efficient, which has become a lightning rod for the high-energy-consumingbitcoin.

The MIT computer science professor-founded protocol, which has a current market cap of $2.6 million, could go up at least 10 times over the next three to five years, according to Edwards.

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Bitcoin price touches $40,000 – Fox Business

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Miami Mayor Francis Suarez on using cryptocurrency to expand the city's economy and its potential impact on residents.

Bitcoin crossed the $40,000 plateu late Tuesday night, before a slight pullback.

Early Wednesday morning Bitcoin was up more than 6%.

The price was around $39,7500 per coin, while rivals Ethereum and Dogecoin were trading around $2,300 and 20 cents per coin, respectively, according to Coindesk.

Bitcoins mining difficulty may be set to increase for the first time since Chinas crackdown on crypto mining in May, according to Coindesk.

MAYOR SUAREZ ON MIAMICOIN LAUNCH, SAYS CITY IS FOCUSED ON DIFFERENTIATING OUR ECONOMY

Being blamed are the rapid expansion of mining facilities in North America and the return of Chinese miners through overseas hosting sites.

Mining difficulty is a metric to describe how hard it is to mine a block and get rewards in bitcoin.

An increase in mining difficulty requires a miner to use more computing power to earn bitcoin, which reduces the miners profit margin.

Miami Mayor Francis Suarez discussed MiamiCoin, the citys newest cryptocurrency initiative, during an appearance on "Varney & Co." on Tuesday. The mayor says the city is focused on differentiating its economy by creating the new wave of technological products.

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Suarez calls Miami the bitcoin capital of the world.

"The City of Miami could end up earning millions of dollars as a result of the popularity of MiamiCoin," Suarez said. "We're focusing on differentiating our economy by creating the new wave of technological products that will incentivize people to move to Miami and be part of our tech ecosystem".

Whenever a MiamiCoin is mined, a percentage of the coin by virtue of the programing goes to the City of Miami.

Miami hosted the 2021 Bitcoin conference last month.

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How Bitcoin Solves The Store Of Value Problem – Bitcoin Magazine

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When a valuation of a company is made, it is done by modelling future cash flows and discounting them to the present-day value in a discounted cash flow model. Fundamentally, this relies on the estimates of future cash flows to accurately determine what the current valuation for a company should be. All sorts of assumptions need to be made to accurately determine this competition in the marketplace future demand for the product or service, and technological innovations all among them.

Another factor that has to be accounted for is monetary policy, which is something weve seen largely increase the value of equities as a result of looser monetary policy, cheap debt and pulling back future cash flows. So even though a discounted cash flow model is severely flawed, it can give us a starting point through which to value a company because there are fiat cash flows associated with it.

Looking at this through the lens of bitcoin, it has no fiat cash flows, so trying to determine a fiat valuation the same way we do for a company is entirely flawed. A better way to understand it is looking at it through the lens of What problem does this solve? Not only does this eliminate the issues presented earlier in the discounted cash flow model, but it also gives a relative framework through which to evaluate it relative to other assets.

One of the questions you should ask when evaluating any product is functionally, What problem does it solve? Thats the first question you should ask when evaluating a product; but functionally this is more important when evaluating an asset. Since bitcoin is both a product and an asset, understanding the product/market fit is a fundamental pillar in beginning to determine a dollar valuation for it.

That moves us to answering the question. When you begin to go down the line and look at the various asset classes, the answer becomes clear. It solves the store of value problem. But, not necessarily in the way that is commonly thought of as solving that problem. The way we can see this in the real world is to look at other asset classes and ask Does this solve the store of value problem? What we see is that no other asset or asset class does, leaving a gap in the market (people that want a sound place to store their monetary energy) and the products that solve that (more on that below).

Gold is technically a store of value thats broadly kept up with the money supply in recent decades, however, it is a failed store of value. The reason its a failed store of value, is that while gold has kept up with the M1 supply, it has failed to keep up with real estate and the bonds that back that real estate. This is largely due to physical properties of gold that make it a poor store of value. Lack of easily verifiable supply, not being salable, and largely centralized in practice make it fully unfit to store value. And the market has determined that to be the case. Real estate has eclipsed gold many times over as it functionally along with bonds became the de facto store of value of the late 20th and early 21st century.

The bond market serving as a store of value worked, at least to some degree, until the 2008 financial crisis when nominal yields went close to zero and real yields went negative. Since bonds (Treasury and agency and lately even corporate and junk bonds) cannot even keep up with the pace of inflation, bonds have now also become a completely failed store of value.

Real estate then would be the next place one would look for a store of value and for the last decade plus, it has served that purpose. However, real estate (especially residential) was never intended to serve as a store of value. Among the issues that prevent real estate from being a long-term store of value are its reliance on monetary policy (without the credit expansion and fiscal policy it cannot sustain), demographic shifts in populations (baby boomers in the United States hold the vast majority of the real estate value, and younger generations do not have the wealth to buy these homes at record values), and salability across time and space (real estate is time consuming to transfer and takes multiple third-party intermediaries).

That leaves us with equities, and why nominally, weve seen record high valuations for equities over the last decade plus. Not because equities provide a true stable store of value (again we are discounting unknown future cash flows to come up with the valuations here), but because everything else has failed. The problem with equities is that functionally rates cannot go much lower, so they are close to being tapped out as a store of value (they can continue to go higher nominally, if the government implements Universal Basic Income payments).

Circling back to bitcoin and trying to come up with a dollar valuation around it, it solves the problems that gold faces (its more salable, censorship resistant, and less centralized), while also being less likely to be subject to manipulation (through the ease of storing your own keys). That gives us a really low-ball end on which we can say we could value bitcoin at and thats above gold's market cap $10 trillion.

Again though, gold is functionally a failed store of value so this is just a starting framework for which we would set a lower-bound estimate. I think the broader valuation that we can use is the bond market. The global bond market is between $130-300 trillion depending on different sources/estimates. Conservatively, if we assume bitcoin solves the store of value problem better than bonds and real estate and this is definitely true on a long enough time scale, as bonds have lost real value for over a decade then we can safely assume it solves the store of value problem better than the bond market. Therefore, a $130 trillion valuation is a safe, conservative estimate for bitcoins valuation framework. This would put the price per coin at approximately $6.5 million per coin, based on todays U.S. dollar value. Thats arguably extremely conservative, as it does not account for the derivatives market which is estimated to be over a quadrillion U.S. dollars.

This is a guest post by Mind/Matter. Opinions expressed are entirely their own and do not necessarily reflect those of BTC Inc. or Bitcoin Magazine.

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Bitcoin, Ethereum, Tether: A Look at Top Cryptocurrencies and Their Worth – Gadgets 360

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Cryptocurrency, a form of digital asset that is based on the idea of distributed ownership, is the newest craze in town. Investors see in it the possibility of a good return and consider it a store of value. There have been several digital coins in circulation for almost a decade but a rapid rise in their value earlier this year made them a popular investment destination now. The market crashed soon after, giving those on the fence an opportunity to buy the dip and get involved with what some have called the world's future currency.

Can cryptocurrencies become the future currency of the world? There's some uncertainty. Firstly, they are highly volatile. Secondly, they still lack regulation and government backing in most countries. Despite these issues, the crypto market is thriving, and more coins are being added to the vault. According to market research firm CoinMarketCap, there are more than 1,000 types of crypto coins in circulation today.

What are the most popular cryptocurrencies?

Bitcoin is the world's oldest and the most popular digital coin. It was launched in 2009 by an anonymous person (or group of persons) under the pseudonym Satoshi Nakamoto. On June 1, Bitcoin was trading at Rs. 26,40,420; on July 30, the price closed at Rs. 29,13,645. Bitcoin's current market capitalisation is Rs. 58.3 trillion.

Ethereum is currently ranked second. Ether is the main token of the Ethereum blockchain. It was first described in 2013 by Russian-Canadian programmer Vitalik Buterin in a white paper. Later, Buterin, along with other co-founders, crowdfunded the project via an online sale next year. They officially launched the blockchain in July 2015. On June 1, Ethereum closed at a price of Rs. 1,87,286; on July 30, it was trading at Rs. 1,74,817. The current market cap is Rs. 21.3 trillion.

The largest digital coin by market value, Tether is what's known as a stablecoin. Unlike most cryptocurrencies, these coins are tied to real-world assets to maintain a stable value. Tether was designed to be pegged to the US dollar for stability, but the firm has revealed it does not have enough dollar reserves to maintain stability. In the last 15 days, Tether's price has dipped from Rs. 74.61 to Rs. 74.41. Its market cap is Rs. 4.6 trillion.

Founded in 2017 by Ethereum co-founder Charles Hoskinson, Cardano is a proof-of-stake (PoS) blockchain platform. Under the PoS model, owners put up their tokens as collateral to get authority over the token in proportion to the amount they stake. Cardano traded at Rs. 90.24 on July 16. And by July 30, it had reached a value of Rs. 94.62. The current market cap is Rs. 3.1 trillion.

Ripple, a US-based technology company, created the XRP digital coin in 2012 to be a quick, cost-efficient, and more scalable alternative to digital assets and existing monetary payment platforms like SWIFT. You can buy XRP on any digital currency exchange and store them in a hot or cold wallet. Its price has jumped from Rs. 44.81 on July 16 to Rs. 54.61 on July 30. Its market cap is Rs. 2.6 trillion.

Launched as a meme-based currency to poke fun at Bitcoin, Dogecoin became so popular with people recently that it has taken on a life of its own. Based on the popular doge meme, it features the Shiba Inu face on its logo. Software engineers Billy Markus and Jackson Palmer launched the digital coin in 2013. After remaining in oblivion for almost seven years, billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk endorsed it and began pushing it on his social media handle. On July 16, it traded for Rs. 13.35 but had gained some value to reach Rs. 15.71 by July 30. Its price has seen ups and downs throughout it journey. The market cap is Rs. 2 trillion.

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Richard Bertrand Spencer | Southern Poverty Law Center

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In his own words

Were going to be back here, and were going to humiliate all of these people who opposed us. Well be back here 1,000 times if necessary. I always win. Because I have the will to win, I keep going until I win. Interview with DailyMail.com, several days after the 2017 Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville.

Islam at its full flourishing isnt some peaceful denomination like Methodism or religion like Buddhism; Islam is a black flag. It is an expansive, domineering ideology, and one that is directed against Europe. In this way, Islam give [sic] non-Europeans a fighting spirit and integrates them into something much greater than themselves. Interview with Europa Maxima, February 2017.

A race is genetically coherent, a race is something you can study, a race is about genes and DNA, but its not just about genes and DNA. The most important thing about it is the people and the spirit. Thats what a race is about. Speech at Texas A&M, December 2016.

Martin Luther King Jr., a fraud and degenerate in his life, has become the symbol and cynosure of White Dispossession and the deconstruction of Occidental civilization. We must overcome!National Policy Institute column, January 2014

Immigration is a kind a proxy warand maybe a last standfor White Americans, who are undergoing a painful recognition that, unless dramatic action is taken, their grandchildren will live in a country that is alien and hostile.National Policy Institute column, February 2014

Our dream is a new society, an ethno-state that would be a gathering point for all Europeans. It would be a new society based on very different ideals than, say, the Declaration of Independence. VICE, October 2013.

When we hear any professional Latino support this or that social program, we sense in our guts that her policy proscriptions are rationalizations for nationalism. She mightsaymore immigration is good; shemeansThe Anglos are finished! Speech at the 2013 American Renaissance conference

What blocks our progress is thememethat has been carefully implanted in White peoples minds over the course of decades of programming, fromMississippi BurningtoLee Daniel's The Butlerthat any kind of positive racial feeling among Whites is inherently evil and stupid and derives solely from bigotry and resentment. And that the political and social advancement of non-Whites is inherently moral and wonderful. National Policy Institute column, September 2013

Richard Spencers clean-cut appearance conceals a radical white separatist whose goal is the establishment of a white ethno-state in North America. His writings and speeches portray this as a reasonable defense of Caucasians and Eurocentric culture. In Spencers myopic worldview, white people have been dispossessed by a combination of rising minority birth rates, immigration and government policies he abhors.

Fighting that alleged dispossession is the focus of the, until recently, tax-exempt organization he heads, the National Policy Institute (NPI). According to NPIs mission statement, it aims to elevate the consciousness of whites, ensure our biological and cultural continuity, and protect our civil rights. The institute ... will study the consequences of the ongoing influx that non-Western populations pose to our national identity. NPI lost its tax-deductible status with the IRS for failing to file tax returns after 2012.

Spencer became president of NPI in 2011, following the death of its chairman, longtime white nationalist Louis R. Andrews. Concurrently, he also oversaw NPIs publishing division, Washington Summit Publishers, home of such scientifically bogus works as a 2015 reissue of Richard LynnsRace Differences in Intelligenceand screeds by other white nationalists, includingJared Taylor, editorof the racistAmerican Renaissancejournal, andSam Francis, the late editor of the white supremacistCouncil of Conservative Citizens newsletter. In 2012, Spencer launched an offshoot of Washington Summit Publishers that he calledRadix Journal, a website and biannual publication whose contributors include notorious antisemite Kevin MacDonald, a retired professor at California State University, Long Beach.

Spencer abdicated his position as editor ofRadix Journalin January 2017 to serve as the American editor of his new site AltRight.com. Launched on January 16, 2017, AltRight.com brings together several well-known white nationalist personalities including Henrik Palmgren of Red Ice, Brad Griffin of Occidental Dissent, andWilliam H. Regnery II, a reclusive member of the Regnery right-wing publishing dynasty that founded both NPI and the Charles Martel Society. Other leadership on the site includes Daniel Friberg, European editor, Jason Jorjani, Culture editor, and Tor Westman, technical director.

Described as a leading academic racist by the Southern Poverty Law Center, Spencer takes a quasi-intellectual approach to white separatism. In an online NPI recruiting video, he employs the tone of a sociologist discussing demographics:

As long as whites continue to avoid and deny their own racial identity, at a time when almost every other racial and ethnic category is rediscovering and asserting its own, whites will have no chance to resist their dispossession.

Spencer acquired that academic tone while obtaining a bachelors degree from the University of Virginia and a masters degree in humanities from the University of Chicago. That tone is part of an image-conscious strategy meant to appeal to educated, middle-class whites. He dresses neatly, eschews violence and works to sound rational.

We have to look good, he told Salon.com writer Lauren Fox, because no one is going to want to join a movement that is crazed or ugly or vicious or just stupid.

In 2007, after he dropped out of a Duke University Ph.D. program in modern European intellectual history, Spencer took a job as assistant editor atAmerican Conservativemagazine, where he was later fired for his radical views, according to former colleague J. Arthur Bloom. Following that, Spencer became executive editor of the paleoconservative website Takis Magazine. In 2010, Spencer founded AlternativeRight, a supremacy-themed webzine aimed at the intellectual right wing, where he remained until joining NPI.

One of Spencers first acts after taking over NPI was to move its headquarters from Washington, D.C., to Whitefish, Montana, where his family has a vacation home. But if Spencer is eyeing Whitefish as a locale for his Aryan homeland, he faces significant opposition. In December 2014, the Whitefish City Council debated an anti-hate ordinance barring groups such as NPI from assembling in the community. After concerns were raised about free speech, the council ultimately settled on a resolution supporting diversity and tolerance.

Spencer spoke at that council meeting, saying the anti-hate ordinance would have granted the right to police our minds but claiming that he supported the diversity and tolerance resolution. But real diversity includes thinking differently, theFlathead Beaconquoted him as saying. Real diversity is not people of all different shapes and colors acting the same way. That is the diversity of a Coke commercial.

Real diversity and tolerance apparently go only so far, however. In an address at white supremacist Jared Taylors 2013American Renaissanceconference, Spencer called for peaceful ethnic cleansing. As an example of how this could be accomplished, he cited the 1919 Paris Peace Conference, where new national boundaries were formed at the end of World War I. Today, in the public imagination, ethnic cleansing has been associated with civil war and mass murder (understandably so), Spencer said. But this need not be the case. 1919 is a real example of successful ethnic redistribution done by fiat, we should remember, but done peacefully.

Spencer also has termed his mission a sort of white Zionism that would inspire whites with the dream of such a homeland just as Zionism helped spur the establishment of Israel. A white ethno-state would be anAltneuland an old, new country he said, attributing the term to Theodor Herzl, a founding father of Zionism.

Such historical comparisons show how desperate Spencer is to legitimize his agenda. After all, if white people are dispossessed, why shouldnt they get a homeland, too? The problem, of course, is that white Americans have not been dispossessed, no matter how often that claim is made by ideologues of the racist right.

But Spencer is doing his best to make it seem that they are. When the 2011 census revealed that for the first time the majority of children born in the United States are non-white, Spencer concluded that efforts to restrict immigration were meaningless going forward. Even if all immigration, legal and illegal, were miraculously halted tomorrow morning, our countrys demographic destiny would merely be delayed by a decade or two, he told theAmerican Renaissanceaudience. Put another way, we could win the immigration battle and nevertheless lose the country, and lose it completely.

Although Spencer has repeatedly denied that he is a racist, his protests amount to a semantic debate over what racist means. Racist isnt a descriptive word. Its a pejorative word. It is the equivalent of saying, I dont like you. Racist is just a slur word, he told theFlathead Beacon. I think race is real, and I think race is important. And those two principles do not mean I want to harm someone or hate someone. But the notion that these people can be equal is not a scientific way of looking at it.

Elsewhere, he has decried what he terms an overly expansive definition of racism by Cultural Marxists. In a 2013 NPI column, he wrote:

But for most academics and policy-makers who could be referred to as Cultural Marxiststhe definition of racism is much,muchmore expansive; it encompasses culture, privilege, societal assumptions and values, and all sorts of things they deem to be expressions of power. The hetero-normative marriage, Christmas, nationalist soccer fandom can each be considered racist, in that each is an avatar of European civilization and consciousnessand thus an obstacle for multicultural globalism.

Spencer has said he would gladly accept Germans, Latins and Slavic immigrants in his proposed ethno-state ironically, groups that faced severe discrimination in late 19th-century America. These foreigners and their customs, including Catholicism, spurred the creation of Know-Nothing societies, which eventually became known as the American Party. Pseudo-scientific studies were released, such as Carl Brighams A Study of Human Intelligence (1923), that claimed that Slavs and Italians, among others, were of inferior intelligence.

But today, kielbasa is considered as American as apple pie, and these non-Anglo Saxons are embraced by Spencer because of their white skins. They have assimilated.

To Spencer, however, assimilation is a deceptive term. In his foreword to a new edition of racist eugenicist Madison Grants 1933Conquest of a Continent, Spencer wrote:

Hispanic immigrants have been assimilating downwardacross generations towards the culture and behavior of African-Americans. Indeed, one possible outcome of the ongoing demographic transformation is a thoroughly miscegenated, and thus homogenous and assimilated, nation, which would have little resemblance to the White America that came before it.

This applies to the European motherland as well. In a promo for NPIs 2013 Leadership Conference in Washington, D.C., Spencer opined that both Europe and America are experiencing economic, moral and cultural bankruptcy under the pressure of mass immigration, multiculturalism, and the natural expression of religious and ethnic identities by non-Europeans.

Spencers efforts to reach out to European nationalists have not gone well. In October 2014, his attempt to hold an NPI conference in Budapest, Hungary, resulted in his arrest and expulsion. Dubbed the 2014 European Congress, the conference featured an array of white nationalists from both Europe and America. Among the scheduled speakers were Jared Taylor ofAmerican Renaissance, Philippe Vardon from the far-right French Bloc Identitaire movement, Russian ultranationalist Alexander Dugin and right-wing Hungarian extremist MP Mrton Gyngysi.

Before the conference even started, the Hungarian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade released a statement condemning all xenophobic and exclusionary organizations that discriminate based on religion or ethnicity. Planned reservations at the Larus Center venue were canceled. On Oct. 3, Spencer was arrested while meeting informally with other participants at a cafe that was to have been an alternate venue. He was jailed for three days, deported and banned for three years from entering all 26European countries that have abolished passport and other controls at their common borders.

Back in America, stronger free speech protections enable Spencer to hold such conferences. But even though he idealizes an American society founded by European whites, he rejects the principles of egalitarianism enshrined in the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence.

Spencer takes issue with conservatives who advocate returning America to its founding principles. Even if that did happen, the outcome would be the same, according to Spencer: One should not rewind a movie, play it again, and then be surprised when it reaches the same unhappy ending.

Should we, for instance, really be fighting for limited government or the Constitution, so that the Afro-Mestizo-Caribbean Melting Pot can enjoy the blessing of liberty and a sound currency? he asked theAmerican Renaissancegathering.

In Spencers ethno-state there would be no such problems. In aJuly 3, 2014, column in NPIsRadix Journal, he lauded Confederate Vice President Alexander Stephens greatest address, in which Stephens said that Thomas Jefferson was wrong about all men being created equal.

Spencer endorsed that sentiment, saying, Ours, too, should be a declaration of difference and distance We hold these truths to be self-evident; that all men are created unequal. In the wake of the old world, this will be our proposition.

At every NPI event there is a book fair, and NPIs publishing division, Washington Summit Publishers, also offers its white nationalist titles on its own website and through sites such as Amazon.com.

Throughout the 2016 presidential campaign, Spencer was a vocal advocate for Donald Trump due to his signature proposal to build a wall along the United States border with Mexico and his racist statements referring to Mexicans as criminals and rapists. Following a high-profile press conference on the racist alt-right movement a term that Spencer popularized Spencer organized a press conference with Jared Taylor of American Renaissance and Peter Brimelow of VDARE, two longtime leaders in the white nationalist movement, to codify the tenets of the alt-right. Race is real, race matters, and race is the foundation of identity, Spencer told attendees. You cant understand who you are without race.

Only days after Trumps surprising victory over Hillary Clinton, the NPI held its fall conference on November 19, 2016, in Washington, D.C. In what he later described as a moment of exuberance, Spencer, flush with victory, offered the toast, Hail Trump, hail our people, hail victory! to the nearly 200 attendees. He was met with a handful of stiff-armed salutes from the crowd. The gesture electrified the more radical sectors of the white supremacy movement while generating stern disappointment from some of its elder statesmen, including Jared Taylor. When asked about the incident, Taylor told Kristoffer Ronneberg: I was as shocked as anyone by all of that. The alt-right is a very broad movement. I have always known that there were at least anonymous Twitter accounts that are openly Nazi and anti-Semitic, but I did not think that Richard Spencer was that sort of person. I was shocked by these images that weve seen. The restaurant hosting the event later apologized and donated the proceeds to the Anti-Defamation League.

Following what Spencer and the alt-right came to refer to as hailgate, the media cycle fixated on trolling attacks against Tanya Gersh, a Jewish realtor living in Whitefish, Montana, who had been asked by Spencers mother to help her sell a piece of property.

The driving impetus behind the fracas appears to have been the possibility that some in the community might protest Sherry Spencers building to demonstrate their rejection of her sons ideology.

Spencer, who had recently joined into what was referred to as The First Triumvirate with Andrew Anglin ofthe Daily Stormer website and Mike Enoch ofthe Daily Shoah podcast (titles intended to evoke Nazism and the Holocaust), insisted that his mother was the subject of an extortion scheme, which Spencer categorized as a nasty shakedown of an innocent woman.

The shakedown allegation originated in a web posting purportedly authored by Sherry Spencer, Richards mother. The very next day, Anglin parroted the allegation in an article he wrote for the Daily Stormer. Over the next several months, Anglin posted a total of 30 articles urging his hundreds of thousands of readers to unleash a torrent of abusive phone calls, voicemails, emails, text messages, social media messages even Christmas cards on the Jewish realtor, her family and their associates. (In April 2017, the Southern Poverty Law Center filed a lawsuit against Anglin in the U.S. District Court of Montana in Missoula.)

But when Anglin threatened to bus in skinheads from the Bay Area for an armed protest against the towns small Jewish population, to be held on Martin Luther King Jr. Day, Spencer was forced to backpedal.

Spencer tried to play the march off as a joke and maintained that he had no control over Anglin, whom he referred to as totally wild thats not my kind of thing, though maintaining that Anglin was a rational person who wouldnt engage in physical violence.

On December 6, 2016, at the invitation of a neo-Nazi and former Texas A&M student Preston Wiginton, Spencer spoke to a ballroom of nearly 400 individuals. America, at the end of the day, Spencer told his audience, belongs to white men. Our bones are in the ground. We own it. At the end of the day America cant exist without us. We defined it. This country does belong to White people, culturally, politically, socially, everything. Following the controversy and attention generated by his appearance at Texas A&M, Spencer announced that he would be embarking on a college tour in 2017.

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Are ‘Antifa’ and the ‘Alt-Right’ Equally Violent?

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In the hours and days following the deadly Unite the Right rally on 12 August 2017, President Donald Trump laid the blame for the violence that took the lives of three people in Charlottesville, Virginia on many sides.

The claim that white supremacists and counter-demonstrators carry equal responsibility for the weekend melee in Charlottesville has been widely rejected both Democrat and Republican lawmakers have repudiated the views espoused by rally attendees who were seen using racist and anti-Semitic epithets and carrying Nazi symbols. But the presidents comments have drawn attention to far left demonstrators known as antifa (short for anti-fascist), who have been showing up to counter white supremacist rallies, sometimes violently).

However, videos of a car ramming into a group of pedestrians protesting the rally doesnt show any antifa in the crowd that was hit. Instead, Heather Heyer, the 32-year-old woman who was killed, was a Charlottesville local and many of the people in the area appeared to be regular demonstrators. Nevertheless on the day she was killed, President Trump said:

We condemn in the strongest possible terms this egregious display of hatred, bigotry and violence, on many sides. On many sides.

Two days later, under pressure to condemn white supremacist violence, President Trump revisited the issue, but blamed the alt-left, a made-up term probably meant to refer to antifa. He said:

Okay, what about the alt-left that came charging at [indiscernible] excuse me what about the alt-left that came charging at the, as you say, the alt-right? Do they have any semblance of guilt?

Even though the people who died amid the unrest have not been linked to antifa (the other two victims were police officers), questions have since been raised about the violence at the weekend rally and further potential for violence at upcomingevents by both the alt-right (a term that encompasses different strands of white supremacist factions) and the antifa activists who come out to meet them. Experts tell us that statistically, historically, and in terms of philosophy the alt-right poses a bigger threat and greater evil, but the violence at political demonstrations has been ratcheting up in recent months.

Brian Levin, criminal justice professor at California State University at San Bernardino who is an expert on hate groups, said ideology aside, street violence is generally increasing at political demonstrations, as extremist groups are egged on by each others words and actions:

To be sure, there is a violent subsection of antifa which is getting much publicity and much more prominent to say theyre not is just false. By the same token there isnt a moral equivalency in philosophy, but there is an escalating arms race with regard to extremists on different sides, of which I think alt-right are now at the forefront.

But, he pointed out, antifa isnt as organized as the alt-right, and doesnt have the access to the channels of publicity and governmental influence that the alt-right does:

The alt-right is far more organized and has greater access to the political mainstream than their less-organized cohorts on the hard left who do not enjoy or do not have the same structure or access into the political mainstream. Both are anti-establishments and socio-political entities that can radicalize constituents to violence but the alt-right just as an organism is far larger, more sophisticated and more able to participate in the political mainstream, particularly through messaging.

Marilyn Mayo, senior research fellow for the Anti-Defamation Leagues Center on Extremism, said that statistics show that radical leftists have been dramatically less likely to kill people than their counterparts on the opposite side of the political spectrum.Over the past decade, extremists of every stripe have killed 372 Americans. 74 percent of those killings were committed by right wing extremists. Only 2 percent of those deaths were at the hands of left wing extremists. Mayo told us:

I dont want to give moral equivalence to the two sides because one side is fighting against white supremacy. On the Antifa side, theyve never murdered anyone but there have been many murders done by white supremacists, so we have to be concerned about that movement.

But, she said:

You have an escalation of rhetoric and you have people who are willing to fight it out in the streets. With this political polarization in the country right now, you have people who come dressed for battle, and when they confront each other it can lead to violence.

This is kind of a watershed moments because we saw one of the largest and most violent white supremacist rallies in over a decade. It brought together a lot of strains under one umbrella and the fact these groups were able to unite shows they feel the moment is very ripe to get their message out and be in the streets. Theyre not afraid to be out and open in their views. When you have people who have so much hate and bigotry, shouting things like Jews will not replace us, it shows that they are rearing for action. And theres always the potential for violence when you have hate groups going out into the streets.

John Sepulvado, a reporter who has been covering far-right groups for Bay Area public radio station KQED, told us the violence at recent alt-right demonstrations has been used to recruit, and when antifa shows up to fight them it can play into their game plan. Theyre turning the traditional desire for objectivity by the media on its head, he told us.

Citing a lyric from rapper Jay Zs song Takeover that says, A wise man told me dont argue with fools, cause people from a distance cant tell who is who, Sepulvado told us the pattern of inciting violence at rallies from the alt-right has gone this way:

Announce an event thats going to piss everyone who has common sense off, something so outrageous its going to piss 99 percent of the population off, then when someone gets on Twitter [and threatens them], send out a press release saying, we cant practice our free speech rights because of leftist violence. Then show up anyway. They have canceled so many rallies that they showed up at anyway and still rallied. The threat of leftist violence means they need to wear body armor and bring weapons. If its an open carry state theyll have [firearms]. If its not an open carry state theyll bring firecrackers and sticks.

And then when someone pushes them or spits on them, theyll use that as an excuse to strike out. Then the leftists will strike out, and the media wont know whos who.

The important distinction, he said, is that the leftists arent organizing the protests. Theyre just responding to them. Sepulvado added:

You know [the alt-right] is guiltiest when they say, look at them, were not the only ones. Theyre not arguing whether the [car attack] was actually committed, theyre just trying to bring everyone down in the muck with them. This is like a bottom feeding monster trying to convince the world that dolphins are ugly creatures.

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Vladimir Lenin, Jewish Communist revolutionary in Russia

Anybody who has been paying attention over the past five years can see the hidden hand at work in the so-called Alt-Right and White Nationalist movements.

While the media drones on about white supremacists and antisemitism, the truth is that Jews are actually the ones leading these movements, and there is a clear agenda at work.

This is nothing new.

In 1970, Frank Collin (real name Cohn) was a Jew who founded the National Socialist Party of America (NSPA), which would go on to be one of the largest neo-nazi parties at that time. Collin/Cohn would regularly lead neo-nazi marches around Chicago, which ultimately culminated in the Skokie Affair.

Frank Collin/Cohn was eventually found guilty of child molestation and sexually abusing young boys at the NSPA headquarters in Chicago. Predictably, he went to jail and the whole NSPA movement fizzled out.

Just like in the 1970s, today we see the exact same dynamic at work: Jews leading the Alt Right and so-called White Nationalist movements.

It is no secret that the webmaster of the Daily Stormer is/has been Andrew Escher Auernheimer (aka Weev), an Ashkenazi Jew on both sides of his family.

Auernheimer has admitted to being a Jew many times over the years. He has also been outed by his own jewish family. Speaking to Newsweek, his mother Alyse said,

He doesnt like us, she said, adding that her son comes from a large, mixed-race family with Native American heritage, and that he most certainly has Jewish lineage on both sides of his family.

In October 2010, Auernheimer admitted his genetic ties to the Jew Theodore Herzl, the founder of the Zionist movement on his official reddit account (still active), which was also verified in one of his court cases:

Well, my line is related to Theodore Herzl, so I have blood ties to Zionist thought.

Like Frank Collin/Cohn, Auernheimer has also served time in jail for illicit activities and crimes.

Below you see the Jew Andrew Escher Auernheimer (right), who looks uncannily like the gay jewish pedophile Allen Ginsberg (left):

Heres another article exposing Weev from Occidental Dissent (archived), detailing how Weev at the Daily Stormer is tied in with Chabad Lubavitch Jews in New York, including Jared Kushner (from the Trump Administration).

Heres Auernheimer promoting violence on a show with Christopher Cantwell, another Alt Right clown and admitted FBI informant.

Hunter Wallace at Occidental Dissent has an excellent overview exposing Weev and his promotion of violence over the years (archived version).

Weevs (and Daily Stormers) subversive and dishonest agenda:

Breitbart is a jewish operation to the core and it has been that way from the beginning.

In an article from August 2016, Breitbarts jewish CEO Lary Solov stated:

They say that we are anti-Semitic, though our company was founded by Jews, is largely staffed by Jews, and has an entire section (Breitbart Jerusalem) dedicated to reporting on and defending the Jewish state of Israel.

As one of the largest of the so-called alternative media websites, Breitbart attempts to be edgy by reporting stories that may be popular with racially aware Whites, while at the same time controlling the narrative and obscuring the hidden Jewish Hand behind the power structure.

In 2015, the Jew Larry Solov wrote an article explaining how Breitbart was born in Israel:

A lot of people dont realize this but Breitbart News Network really got its start in Jerusalem. It was the summer of 2007, and Andrew had been invited to tour Israel as part of a media junket. I agreed to tag along as his lawyer and best friend. What neither of us knew at the time was that the trip would change our lives and give us the inspiration for Breitbart News Network.

One of its co-founders was Steve Bannon, Donald Trumps Chief Strategist, who described Breitbart as THE platform for the alt-right. Yes, this is the same Steven Bannon who was recently outed for his close associations with Mossad operative and pedophile, Jeffrey Epstein.

Ben Shapiro, another Jew who plays the part of an edgy conservative when hes not studying The Talmud, which is the jewish blueprint for subverting White Christian society, also spent a few years training at Breitbart as a political commentator.

Its no secret that Ezra Levant, the loudmouth behind Rebel Media, is jewish.

Like Breitbart, Levant plays the role of conservative without ever going near the topics of race or the jewish hand at work in various arenas.

Weve discussed Ezra Levant before in his relation to Tommy Robinson. Levant appears to be one of Tommys handlers, while also being his money manager who collects donations for his legal defense, but well discuss Tommy more below.

Levants job is to keep all discussion about Muslims focused on Islam, rather than the jewish enablers.

The Gatestone Institute seems to be the largest among the kosher-approved anti-Islam websites.

The goal of these websites is simple: lead the opposition by criticizing Islam, but dont go anywhere near the topic of who is enabling, funding, and supporting Muslim immigration into the West. Because if you go there, then that would be antisemitic, of course.

These are what we call the Kosher Crusaders. They will appear to oppose Islam, but theyll never let you know the root cause of the problem.

The Gatestone Institute is right out of the jewish playbook for creating a fake opposition movement:

One of the major publishers of online content friendly to the far-right party is an American website financed in large part and lead by Jewish philanthropist Nina Rosenwald.

Rosenwalds site, the Gatestone Institute, publishes a steady flow of inflammatory content about the German election, focused on stoking fears about immigrants and Muslims. In one of the most recent posts, the website warns of the construction of mosques in Germany and claims that Christianity is becoming extinct.

Here is Rosenwald with Alan Dershowitz, a self-described Hillary Clinton supporter who also seems deeply connected with many other personalities on the alt right and the Trump administration through their mutual connections to Jeffrey Epstein.

Sites like Gatestone also keep Christians blind to the enemy within while ensuring they never see the bigger picture.

We learn from Wikipedia that John Bolton, the neocon Jew who has a penchant for getting America into wars against Muslims for the sole benefit of Israel, is also actively involved in the Gatestone Institute.

Bolton has been involved with numerous conservative organizations, including the anti-Muslim Gatestone Institute, where he served as the organization Chairman until March 2018, and as a Director of the Project for the New American Century, which favored going to war with Iraq.

Next up from the Kosher Crusaders is Robert Spencer, a close associate of fellow jewish conservative kingpin David Horowitz whose Freedom Center funds Spencers website Jihad Watch, a fairly large site that gets quite a bit of traffic. But the m.o. is the same: criticize Islam, never discuss Jews, and support Israel!

There are many other Kosher Crusaders we could discuss, such as Pamella Geller, but you get the point.

Lauren Simonsen goes by the name Lauren Southern as part of her act. Also part of her act is the bad blonde aryan dye job to make herself more appealing to young, naive White men, despite her attraction to Black men, like the conservative one she dated in high school:

In various contexts she has admitted her jewish ancestry.

For example:

Lauren Southern Simonsen previously worked for the Jew Ezra Levant at Rebel Media.

She has made videos criticizing third world immigration into the West, and like her fellow tribe members in the Alt Right, shell never let you know the source of the problem.

In 2018, she went on a world tour with Stephan Molyneux, another Jew who pretends to be a white nationalist.

Hundreds Mistakenly Protest Jewish Woman for White Supremacist in Australia

Mike Cernovich is another jewish Alt Right figure who has been heavily promoted in the media. Recently, Cernovich has gone into overdrive trying to convince people that Jeffrey Epstein was not connected to the Israeli Mossad.

Here he is with his mentor Alan Dershowitz, who just so happens to have been Jeffrey Epsteins attorney and alleged frequent visitor a Epsteins teenage rape parties:

Here we have Cernovich attempting to speak for his fellow white people on Twitter.

Same story, different talking head.

Mike Enoch Peinovich is the Jew behind TheRightStuff, an antisemetic website which hosts various white nationalist podcasts which have been featured at Andrew Anglins Daily Stormer.

When he first came to public attention, he tried to hide the fact that his wife was jewish, but eventually admitted it, after which he allegedly divorced her to maintain his street cred among nationalists, but all of this was a way to distract his followers from the fact that he himself, not just his wife, is jewish.

Enoch has a habit of wearing dark sunglasses in public to create a tough and fashy image, but when he takes them off, he looks nebbishly jewish:

Mike Enoch Peinovich has, in fact, admitted to being jewish on at least three separate occasions, as you can hear in this video:

Update: Mike Enoch Peinovich is now actively blocking anyone on Twitter who points out that he is a Jew. For Peinovich, the truth is gay ops and needs to be shut down.

Milo Yiannopoulos is a gay jewish antisemite whom we have covered before on this site:

Yiannopoulos is a poster child of the fake Right whose sole purpose is to subvert and discredit any legitimate opposition to the jewish-dominated liberal agenda.

Not only is Yiannopoulos a flaming homosexual who has a penchant for Black men, hes also an admitted crypto-Jew who loves to troll both liberals and conservatives. Hes a political clown who does nothing but distract White people from the real problems that we face.

Yiannopoulos just so happens to be another jewish antisemite who got his start at Breitbart (there seems to be a pattern here). As Wikipedia points out:

In October 2015, the Breitbart News Network placed Yiannopoulos in charge of its new Breitbart Tech section. The site has six full-time staff, including an eSports specialist, and was edited by Yiannopoulos until his resignation on 21 February 2017.

Wikipedia also points out how Yiannopoulos promotes pedophilia:

In the interview in a January 2016 episode of the podcast Drunken Peasants, Yiannopoulos stated that sexual relationships between 13-year-old boys and adult men and women can happen perfectly consensually, because some 13-year-olds are, in his view, sexually and emotionally mature enough to consent to sex with adults; he spoke favourably both of gay 13-year-old boys having sex with adult men and straight 13-year-old boys having sex with adult women. He used his own experience as an example, saying he was mature enough to be capable of giving consent at a young age.

And most recently, documents released in a lawsuit involving the United The Right rally in Charlottesville reveal that Yiannopoulos is, in fact, an FBI informant who has a vault of materials to discredit and doxx figures in the Alt-Right.

Paul Gottfried is often called the Jewish Godfather of the Alt Right.

Heres an excerpt from Gottfrieds Wikipedia page:

Gottfried is also the first person to use the term alternative right, when referring specifically to developments within American right-wing politics, in 2008. Richard B. Spencer co-created the term with Gottfried while working together at Takis Magazine and helped it to gain wide currency through media attention surrounding conferences organized by his think tank, the National Policy Institute.

Here you can see Gottfried with Richard Spencer and Pat Buchanan:

The pro-homosexual conservative Richard Spencer is also quite the character, with deep family ties to the CIA and various mainstream political figures. Many also claim he is jewish.

Heres Spencer hanging out with his wife and former First Lady Laura Bush:

Stefan Molyneux is a jewish actor who plays the role of a white nationalist and antisemite who points out facts about Jews. Molyneux has been caught in numerous lies over the years and has flip-flopped on many issues.

He is jewish on both sides of his family.

Mothers side:

Fathers side:

Molyneux is an actor who makes a lot of money conning his audience:

Molyneux will occasionally discuss facts about Jews, particularly on Twitter, while feeding his audience various lies and controlling the narrative.

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The Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville was ostensibly about protecting a statue of Robert E. Lee. It was about asserting the legitimacy of white culture and white supremacy, and defending the legacy of the Confederacy.

So why did the demonstrators chant anti-Semitic lines like Jews will not replace us?

The demonstration was suffused with anti-black racism, but also with anti-Semitism. Marchers displayed swastikas on banners and shouted slogans like blood and soil, a phrase drawn from Nazi ideology. This city is run by Jewish communists and criminal niggers, one demonstrator told Vice News Elspeth Reeve during their march. As Jews prayed at a local synagogue, Congregation Beth Israel, men dressed in fatigues carrying semi-automatic rifles stood across the street, according to the temples president. Nazi websites posted a call to burn their building. As a precautionary measure, congregants had removed their Torah scrolls and exited through the back of the building when they were done praying.

This is an agenda about celebrating the enslavement of Africans and their descendants, and celebrating those that then fought to preserve that terrible machine of white supremacy and human enslavement, said Jonathan Greenblatt, the head of the Anti-Defamation League, or ADL. And yet, somehow, theyre all wearing shirts that talk about Adolf Hitler.

For these demonstrators, though, the connection between African Americans and Jews is clear. In the minds of white supremacists like David Duke, there is a straight line from anti-blackness to anti-Judaism. That logic is powerful and important. The durability of anti-Semitic tropes, and the ease with which they slide into all displays of bigotry, is a chilling reminder that the hatreds of our time rhyme with history and are easily channeled through timeless anti-Semitic canards.

The University of Chicago historian David Nirenberg has spent his career studying anti-Jewish movements and beliefs. Recently, he spoke to a group of students about anti-Semitism on college campuses. At the end of the talk, I said, I wouldnt rush from all this material to thinking that this anti-Semitism is as dangerous as its early 20th-century predecessor, he told me. Seeing the images of the Virginia protest, I must admit, I kind of felt otherwise. It certainly made me feel that books and ideas that I had treated as very marginal in our society are not as marginal as I might have hoped.

Anti-Semitism often functions as a readily available language for all manner of bigotrya Rosetta Stone that can translate animus toward one group into a universal hate for many groups. Ever since St. Paul, Christianity and all the religions born from itIslam, the secular philosophies of Europe, etc.learned to think about their world in terms of overcoming the dangers of Judaism, said Nirenberg. We have these really basic building blocks for thinking about the world and whats wrong with it by thinking about Judaism.

In the world sketched by white supremacists, Jews hover malevolently in the background, pulling strings, controlling events, acting as an all-powerful force backing and enabling the other targets of their hate. Thats clear in statements made by people like Duke, the former Ku Klux Klan leader who proudly marched with other white supremacists in Charlottesville. Jewish Zionists, he complained to a gathered crowd, control the media and American political system.

The extreme right considers many people their threat. But it always, always, always comes back to the Jews.

Anti-black and anti-Jewish sentiment have long been intertwined in America. When the Jewish factory worker Leo Frank was wrongfully convicted of murder and lynched in 1915, two new groups simultaneously emerged: the ADL, which fights against bigotry and anti-Semitism, and the second Ku Klux Klan, which began by celebrating Franks death. Later in the 20th century, Nazis became a natural model for white-supremacist movements in the United States, said Marjorie Feld, a professor of history at Babson College. The logic of white supremacy was similar: Hatreds became universalized through common archetypes. Jews were seen by white supremacists as capitalists undermining local businesses. Black Americans fleeing the South in the Great Migration were seen as taking away crucial labor. Catholics were seen as immigrants stealing American jobs.

After the Holocaust, neo-Nazi movements were largely consigned to the countrys political fringe, although they never fully left the American landscape. In 1978, for example, a Nazi group pushed to demonstrate in Skokie, Illinois, deliberately selecting an area densely populated by Holocaust survivors. The proposed march caused a national uproar, and the American Civil Liberties Union famously defended the groups First Amendment rights in court. Eventually, they ended up demonstrating in Chicago.

The Charlottesville demonstration differed from the planned Skokie march in two important respects, Nirenberg said. First of all, theres a political context for the Unite the Right demonstration. It fits into debates over free speech and college campuses as the front lines of cultural battle, he said. The Skokie march was also widely and vigorously condemned by political leaders. That strong, clear commitment to certain values of inclusion from our political leaders is not present in the same way, Nirenberg said.

On Monday, President Donald Trump held a press conference about the violence in Charlottesville. Racism is evil, he said. Those who cause violence in its name are criminals and thugs, including the KKK, neo-Nazis, white supremacists, and other hate groups that are repugnant to everything we hold dear as Americans. This statement came two days after his initial comments on the protests, in which he condemned the hatred, bigotry, and violence on many sides. The suggested equivalence between the white-supremacist demonstrators and their counter-protesters shocked politicians and public figures in both parties, who quickly criticized Trumps unwillingness to condemn neo-Nazis and the KKK. Its very clear that the people marching in Charlottesville felt very supported by the shape of the public statements made by President Trump, said Nirenberg. On Tuesday, the president held another press conference in which he reiterated his previous claims, saying, What about the alt-left that came charging with clubs in their hands? Do they have any problem? I think they do.

Greenblatt argued that the backlash against Trumps comments is not about politicsits about recognizing a pattern of anti-Semitism. There was the Holocaust Remembrance Day statement that didnt mention Jews; the conspiratorial meme of Hillary Clinton and a Star of David that Trump retweeted during the campaign; the infamous Nazi salute and shouts of Hail Trump! at an alt-right conference following the election. In the past several days, a number of groups have renewed their calls for Trump to fire Steve Bannon, his chief strategist, in part based on Bannons role in heading Breitbart, which he called a platform for the alt-right.

To people like Greenblatt, these are all signs that, at best, the White House does not take anti-Semitism seriously enough. At worst, the Trump administration indulges bigotry so as not to alienate some supporters. Heck, theres Jewish grandchildren running around the White House, Greenblatt said. But make no mistake, the extreme right considers many people their threat, but it always, always, always comes back to the Jews.

You just cant say this as a historian, but I feel like were at this critical juncture.

As Nirenberg pointed out, the violence in Charlottesville was part of a broader political context. The fringe right is reacting to other political movements with nostalgia, Feld saida yearning for people, including minorities like Jews and blacks, to know their place.

It makes sense to me that just as were seeing people of all backgrounds be brave enough to insist that these monuments about slavery be toppled, Feld said, these people would come out and say we would want to return to the way things were.

The identity politics of the intersectional left are radically different from the generalized bigotry of the far-right fever swamps. And yet, they are in relationship: Universalized movements that aim to fight oppression against all peoples in all of their identities necessarily invite backlash from those who feel that theyre losing their place in society. It would really reduce and impoverish debate to see this example as primarily an anti-Jewish rally [or] as entirely an anti-African American rally. Its all those things, said Nirenberg. To the extent that we separate those and claim, No, its only about my identity, we fail to understand basic aspects of identity politics in the present.

Of course there are neo-Nazis in our time. There are those who hate Jews in every time. Its a hatred that easily flickers between the universal and the particular, melding with the similarly particular hatreds of blacks and immigrants and other minority groups. You just cant say this as a historian, but I feel like were at this critical juncture, Feld said. I dont feel like the world is unsafe for Jews. I really dont. But I do feel like all social groups need to pay careful attention and speak out against whats happening.

Like Nirenberg, Feld was trained to look at the images coming out of Charlottesville and see not a freak occurrence, but the echoes of history.

God, she said. Its fucking scary.

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Turning Point USA (TPUSA) is an Illinois-based right-wing student organization founded by Charlie Kirk, 25, who now serves as executive director, and William Montgomery, the groups treasurer. Kirk was 18 when he met Montgomery, who was then in his late 60s, after Kirk gave a speech at Benedictine University in Illinois in 2012.[3]

The organizations stated mission is to identify educate, train, and organize students to promote the principles of freedom, free markets, and limited government. TPUSA claims to have representation at more than 1,300 high schools and college campuses nationwide. It also runs the controversial Professor Watchlist, which seeks to expose professors who allegedly discriminate against conservative students and advance leftist propaganda in the classroom. The group has raised millions of dollars from conservative donors since its founding.[4]In the groups six-year history, TPUSAs leadership and activists have made multiple racist or bigoted comments and have been linked to a variety of extremists.

Kirk and Candace Owens, 29, are the public face of TPUSA. They often appear at public events together. Owens became communications director and director of urban outreach after she emerged as a right-wing activist during Gamergate, a debate over journalistic ethics in videogame review which devolved into vicious harassment campaign against people (mostly women) who spoke out against misogyny and sexism in the videogaming community.[5]

Owens, who is black, is no stranger to controversial statements; she frequently claims that Democrats have brainwashed black people.[6]

Looking beyond American campuses, TPUSA is expanding its activities abroad. Owens made her December 2018 comments about Hitler during an event to help establish a British version of the group, Turning Point UK.[7]

TPUSA and Right-Wing Extremists

TPUSA has received considerable support from conservatives and pro-Trump organizations. Right-wing extremists reactions to the group have been varied, but generally positive. TPUSA has generated support from anti-Muslim bigots and alt lite activists, and from some corners of the white supremacist alt right. However, other white supremacists have criticized TPUSA for distancing itself from controversial stances on racism, and for the groups connections to non-white right-wing activists.

In 2018, white supremacist James Dunphy (possibly a pseudonym) wrote an article for the racist website Counter-Currents neatly capturing the prevailing mixed feelings about TPUSA. Dunphy criticized Kirks compliance with political correctness but praised him for doing wonderful things with TPUSA, saying that group members have openly supported building Trumps wall, deporting illegal immigrants, ending affirmative action, defunding sanctuary cities, and stopping unassimilable Muslims from immigrating to Europe. Dunphy also claimed that despite having many differences with white nationalists, TPUSA will nevertheless benefit them because the number of people who will migrate from its platform to a white nationalist one will be far larger than those who do the reverse.[8]

White supremacists do occasionally show up at TPUSA events, sometimes to hear the speakers and other times to linger outside in the hopes of confronting left-wing activists. Charlie Kirk has spoken out against such incidents, which can attract significant negative publicity. When white supremacists appeared outside an event at Colorado State University in early 2018, Kirk told attendees, its not who we are, its not what we believe, its not what Turning Point believes.[9]

However, in spite of such statements and attempts by TPUSA to manage some of its scandals, the controversies keep bubbling up, with most falling into one or more of these categories:

Controversies

The past three years have seen many controversial and problematic incidents connected to TPUSA.

Note: in the list that follows, several individuals are described as associated with the alt lite. The alt lite is a spin-off movement from the white supremacist alt right. Its adherents typically eschew the explicit white supremacy of the alt right but otherwise share its extremism and its prejudices, including against Muslims, immigrants, LGBTQ people (especially transgender people), and women.

May 2019: Left-wing website "It's Going Down" posted a cellphonevideo of Riley Gisar,the presidentof the TPUSA chapter at theUniversity of Nevada,Las Vegas,shouting "white power." The video also shows thewoman standing next to Gisar and the person shooting the video making racist comments andshouting,"white power." Gisar and the womanalso make the okay handgesture, which has been used as a trolling technique by people falsely claimingthe gesture represents the letters wp, for white power. However, more recently, a number of peoplehaveused the gesture as a sincere expression of white supremacy. It is unclear when the video was recorded; TPUSA responded by announcing that Gisar had beenpermanentlyremoved from the organization.

February 2019: Video surfaced of the organizations communications director, Candace Owens, appearing to defend both Adolf Hitler and nationalism. If Hitler just wanted to make Germany great and have things run wellokay, fine. The problem is that hehad dreams outside of Germany [and] wanted to globalize, she said. Her comments, made at a December 2018 event in London, sparked widespread criticism.[1]Owens later clarified her statement, saying it was an attempt to separate the term nationalist from its associations with Hitler, adding, "He wasn't a nationalistHe was a homicidal, psychotic maniac."[2]

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Some astronomers suggest setting up a "SatHub" to address the growing threat that satellite megaconstellations pose to the night sky but funding and support are necessary to make it happen.

The primary goal of the international SatHub project would be implementing and adapting plans for observations as new satellites go up, team members said. A secondary goal would be training, outreach and analysis concerning low Earth orbit satellites for the greater community.

SatHub was one of the key recommendations emerging from a recent workshop, called Satellite Constellations 2 (SATCON2), to figure out how astronomers can best perform observations in the face of swiftly growing satellite numbers. (Some satellite companies also participated in workshop discussions.)

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"That may include a proposal to the International Astronomical Union," SATCON2 co-chair Connie Walker said during a preliminary press conference on July 16, referring to the SatHub idea. The IAU is one of the largest organizations representing astronomers and astronomy interests around the world.

"They have a call that just went out recently on such a center, so stay tuned for more on that," added Walker, a scientist at the National Science Foundation's NOIRLab.

Proposals are due to the IAU on Sept. 10, and deliberations will likely continue until at least the end of 2021, representatives added in the workshop. They did not give a timeline for when SatHub could be available, but this would likely depend in large part on funding.

Ideally, companies that send satellites to space should put money toward the center, said Meredith Rawls, a research scientist at the University of Washington who was also the observations working group chair for SATCON2.

"The idea here is to have a one-stop shop for all of your different needs pertaining to low Earth orbit satellite constellation observations," Rawls said during the press conference. "We really would like to get out ahead of this and avoid reinventing the wheel by having lots of individual siloed groups addressing the problem, and instead have a single landing place for all of these different observations and related analyses to land."

SATCON2 had three objectives, according to a press release from NOIRLab and the American Astronomical Society (AAS), which jointly organized the workshop: to figure out what is required to implement the previous recommendations from 2020's SATCON1; to have astronomers and satellite operators work together for policy frameworks and strategies; and to increase the diversity of all stakeholders.

SATCON1 participants produced a report last year warning that the impacts on astronomy of satellite megaconstellations in low Earth orbit "are estimated to range from negligible to extreme." All-sky survey telescopes that depend on lengthy light exposures free from interference will feel the biggest effects, the report concluded.

Report: Satellite megaconstellations could have 'extreme' impact on astronomy

Key recommendations from 2020 included limiting satellite altitudes in low Earth orbit to 370 miles (600 kilometers); reducing satellite brightness; developing image-processing software to minimize satellite trails; and making orbital information about satellites widely available so astronomers can point away from them.

This year, SATCON2 astronomers pointed to challenges in keeping up with the growing pace of satellite launches. Among the conclusions was that substantial development will be needed in software solutions, said Jonathan McDowell, an astronomer at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics who was co-chair of the SATCON2 algorithms working group.

"We've tried to identify what existing software is relevant to the software problems, but we find that a lot of it is specialized to particular instruments or particular observatories, and it's going to need some work to be generalized," he warned during the press conference. "Also, there are big gaps where the software just doesn't exist. We do need a significant software development effort, and that's going to require substantial resources and funding."

Since satellites are always launching and software takes time to be developed, "we're going to need these resources as soon as possible," McDowell added. And the money will not only be needed for software, he added: Spectroscopic observations in particular are likely to be highly affected, so some observatories will likely need to spend money on hardware such as auxiliary spotting cameras.

The problem also goes beyond technical issues. Other commonly cited problems of constellations include space junk and crowding in terms of radio interference between satellites. These issues were not addressed in the workshop, but there were discussions concerning the impact on Indigenous peoples, as lack of access to the sky is seen as a cultural loss, said James Lowenthal, an astronomy professor at Smith College at Northampton, Massachusetts, who was the co-chair of the SATCON2 community engagement working group. (That said, he warned, not all Indigenous groups want the same thing.)

"The sky belongs to everyone," Lowenthal said. "People are impacted by changes in the sky. Megaconstellations are a global issue because space is a global commons. The sky is part of the environment and ecosystems depend on the night sky, and on each other, echoing the intersectional, interdependent nature of the many strands of this complex issue."

Lowenthal suggested that, when coming with policy solutions, stakeholders should look to lessons learned from past global commons agreements such as the 1987 Montreal Protocol on Substances That Deplete the Ozone Layer, which led to some restrictions on CFCs. But not all such agreements were that successful, he said.

"Telephones, trains, planes, cars, fossil fuels, the internet itself all of these technologies burst upon the scene, were disruptive, produced profound change in society, to be followed by some modicum of regulation and lawmaking. Some were more successful than others at protecting public interests," Lowenthal said.

One way of mitigating the megaconstellation issue might be for those involved in satellite constellations to anticipate impacts long before satellites launch, said Richard Green of the University of Arizona's Steward Observatory, director of the Large Binocular Telescope Observatory and chair of the SATCON2 policy working group.

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The policy working group "wanted to encourage operators to consider effects on astronomy, early in their development of their constellations," Green said. Acknowledging that SpaceX creates satellites in-house, most other companies contract for construction, he added. "They can adjust designs early, but it's very hard to change once they're in production."

Among other measures, the policy working group urged individual countries who are responsible for their launching entities, under the United Nations' 1967 Outer Space Treaty recognized in international space law frameworks to grant licenses to satellite operators only after the environmental impact of satellites has been assessed and minimized.

Despite the Outer Space Treaty's age, Green noted, it remains a useful tool for policy discussions. "It is a very flexible backbone that provides the principles under which nations can operate together, to define how some new phenomenon like satellite constellations fits under the expectations of a spacefaring nation," he said.

Constellations are not a new concept in space exploration, but they have been proliferating in recent years due to the ability to launch fleets of small but capable satellites on a single rocket. The most cited concern is the SpaceX Starlink constellation, which has an estimated 1,630 operational satellites as of July 2021, according to calculations from McDowell, and is growing fast.

"We started the SATCOM workshops after the launch in May 2019 of the first tranche of Starlink satellites," SATCOM2 co-chair Jeff Hall, an astronomer at the Lowell Observatory in Arizona, said during the press conference.

"That led to the idea we should all get together, in a community sense, and see what might be done about some of the impacts on astronomy. We know these satellites are perhaps up to a billion times brighter than the faintest objects astronomers study and have a significant impact on ground-based observatories, which require pristine dark skies to perform their research."

SpaceX eventually hopes to have as many as 42,000 Starlink satellites providing broadband service, and more companies are looking to grow their own fleets, including Amazon's Project Kuiper (which has yet to launch any craft) and OneWeb, which has already lofted 254 operational satellites.

Lowenthal praised some satellite companies for being "significantly and substantially involved in the planning of this workshop," along with promising to "commit resources" to reduce the effects of satellite constellations.

That said, he pointed to challenges. There are no firm regulations yet forcing companies to adjust their satellites to help astronomy observations, he said. Further, the competition has already been tough and resulted in bankruptcies. While Lowenthal did not name any particulars, one commonly cited example is OneWeb's recent Chapter 11 proceedings and subsequent ownership change.

"Even the business model is on shaky ground," he said. "We've already seen bankruptcies, and having a completely unregulated atmosphere is not necessarily the best for them, either. I think there's broad agreement that regulation is going to happen. Of course it's a slow process, but that's what we're launching with this workshop."

More than 350 astronomers, satellite operators, space policy specialists and advocates for dark skies skies with a minimum of light pollution and satellite interference attended SATCON2 from 40 countries, representatives said. A final report will be available around the end of September.

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