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Russia-Ukraine war at a glance: what we know on day 360 of the invasion …

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European powers vowed to intensify support for Ukraine as world leaders, military officers and diplomats gathered in Germany for the Munich security conference to discuss Europes security situation since the Russian invasion. About 40 heads of state and government as well as politicians and security experts from nearly 100 countries, including the US, Europe and China are expected to attend during the three days of the conference.

The Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelenskiy, urged the west to speed up its support, telling the Munich conference that Vladimir Putin would gain a military advantage unless arms deliveries arrived soon. We need to hurry up, Zelenskiy said in a video address. We need speed speed of our agreements, speed of our delivery speed of decisions to limit Russian potential.

Zelenskiy warned a possible consequence of delaying western weapons to Ukraine could be a Russian invasion of Moldova. He said neighbouring Belarus would make a mistake of historic proportions if it joined in the Russian offensive and claimed polls showed 80% of its people did not wish to join.

The German chancellor, Olaf Scholz, gave Zelenskiy an indirect rebuff, saying caution was better than hasty decisions and unity was better than going it alone. Scholz said Germany was the biggest supplier of weapons in continental Europe, and that the region was in uncharted territory and there was no blueprint for confronting a nuclear-armed aggressor, making it vital to avoid an unintended escalation.

The French president, Emmanuel Macron, urged allies to intensify their military support for Ukraine to help it carry out a needed counter-offensive against Russia. There could be no peace in Ukraine until Russia was defeated, Macron said, adding that Russia was doomed to a defeat in the future.

The British prime minister, Rishi Sunak, will call on world leaders to ensure a lasting peace for Ukraine with the establishment of a new Nato charter to help it defend itself again and again in the face of any future declarations of war by Russia. Sunak is expected at the Munich conference to call for countries to double down on our military support, and to warn that the security and sovereignty of every nation is at stake.

Russias foreign ministry spokesperson, Maria Zakharova, has said the US is inciting Ukraine to strike directly at Russian territory, after comments by the US undersecretary of state, Victoria Nuland, about Crimea. Nuland had said the US supported Ukraine striking at targets in Crimea, which Russia annexed in 2014 in a move that is only recognised by a handful of mostly rogue states.

As many as 60,000 Russian forces may have been killed in just under a year of Russias war in Ukraine, the UKs Ministry of Defence has said. The casualty rate has significantly increased since September 2022 when partial mobilisation was imposed. Convict recruits used by Wagner may have had a casualty rate of one in every two men.

Russias defence ministry website has confirmed Lt Gen Andrey Mordvichev is the new head of the central military district, replacing Col Gen Alexandr Lapin, who in January was appointed chief of staff of Russias ground forces. Mordvichevs appointment follows other sweeping changes to Russias military leadership.

Russias foreign ministry said it had summoned the Dutch ambassador over what it called obsessive attempts by authorities in the Netherlands to hold it responsible for the downing of flight MH17 in Ukraine in 2014. In a statement Russia accused the joint investigation team set up to establish who was responsible of being politicised.

The World Health Organization has appealed for more funds to support Ukraines health sector, which has been severely damaged by the war. Ukraine needed more funds to ensure mental health, rehabilitation and community access to health services, said the WHO regional director for Europe, Hans Kluge, in a briefing in the Ukrainian city of Zhytomyr.

A British embassy security guard has been jailed for more than 13 years after a judge told him his treachery spying for Russia had put his former colleagues at maximum risk. David Ballantyne Smith, 58, originally from Paisley, Scotland, copied secret documents he found in unlocked filing cabinets and on desks at the embassy, including a letter to the then-prime minister, Boris Johnson, on the war against Ukraine.

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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and US Secretary of State Antony Blinken shake hands during their meeting in Kyiv, Ukraine on April 25, 2022.Ukrainian Presidential Press Office via AP

Blinken said a lasting peace deal in Ukraine can't occur if its territorial integrity is not respected.

The top US diplomat said that Ukraine giving up territory to Russia would "open a Pandora's box."

"Putin has to give up on his notion that Ukraine is not its own country," Blinken said.

Secretary of State Antony Blinken said in a new interview with NPR that there's a slim chance of Kyiv and Moscow reaching a peace deal as long as Russian President Vladimir Putin behaves as if Ukraine is not a real country.

"Vladimir Putin has to give up on his notion that Ukraine is not its own country, that it needs to be erased from the maps and subsumed into Russia. He's already failed at that. But he seems to continue to believe that that's what he's trying to achieve. And unless he's disabused of that notion, it's hard to see how peace can really move forward," Blinken said.

Putin in September illegally annexed four Ukrainian territories. But Russian forces do not fully occupy these regions, and in some places, they have even lost ground to Ukraine in the time since Putin announced the so-called annexations.

The Russian leader's decision to annex the Ukrainian territories made the possibility of negotiations to end the fighting extremely unlikely. Moscow now claims these regions as part of Russia while the Ukrainian government has been adamant it would not agree to any peace deal requiring it to cede territory to Russia.

Blinken also told NPR that any peace agreement would need to respect Ukraine's territorial integrity, otherwise it would not be a "just peace and a durable peace."

"If we ratify the seizure of land by another country and say 'that's okay, you can go in and take it by force and keep it,' that will open a Pandora's box around the world for would be aggressors that will say, 'Well, we'll do the same thing and get away with it,'" Blinken added.

Western leaders and officials have repeatedly warned that if Russia wins in Ukraine it could inspire other world leaders with imperialistic ambitions to act on them.

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The top US diplomat's comments came as Russia continues to push for gains in eastern Ukraine as the war inches toward the one-year mark. NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said on Monday Russia has already begun a highly-anticipated new offensive, warning that Putin is willing to endure high casualties in order to exhaust Ukrainian forces.

"We're seeing what Russia is just now, what President Putin do now, is sending thousands and thousands of more troops, accepting a very high rate of casualty, taking big losses, but putting pressure on the Ukrainians. And what Russia lacks in quality, they try to compensate in quantity," Stoltenberg said.

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From Alt Right to Alt Lite: Naming the Hate – Anti-Defamation League

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In just oneyear, the alt right has gone from relative obscurity to being one of the United States'most visible extremist movements.This stratospheric rise is due in large part to the rhetoric employed during the 2016 presidential campaign, which granted implicit approval to the once-taboo hallmarks of the far right overt racism, anti-Semitism, xenophobia, misogyny, and anti-Muslim bigotry.

The alt right capitalized on the moment by amplifying those messages while loudly rejecting mainstream conservatism and its followers (often referred to as cucks).

You cant discuss the alt right without mentioning the alt lite, a loosely connected movementof right-wing activists who reject the overtly white supremacist ideology of the alt right, but whose hateful impact is more significant than their lite name suggests. The alt lite embraces misogyny and xenophobia, and abhors political correctness and the left.

While the alt right has been around for years, the current iteration is still figuring out what it is and isnt. And its early days for the alt lite, which means both movements ideologies are still somewhat fluid, as are the lines that separate them. Numerous examples in our list of Whos Who demonstrate that membership in the alt lite does not preclude working with people on the alt right (and vice versa).

The alt right (short for alternative right) is a segment of the white supremacist movement consisting of a loose network of racists and anti-Semites who reject mainstream conservatism in favor of politics that embrace implicit or explicit racist, anti-Semitic and white supremacist ideology. Many seek to re-inject such bigoted ideas into the conservative movement in the United States. The alt right skews younger than other far right groups, and is very active online, using racist memes and message forums on 4chan, 8chan and certain corners of Reddit.

The term alt lite was created by the alt right to differentiate itself from right-wing activists who refused to publicly embracewhite supremacist ideology.

Today, the alt lite, sometimes referred to as the New Right, is loosely-connected movementwhose adherents generally shun white supremacist thinking, but who are in step with the alt right in their hatred of feminists and immigrants, among others. Many within the alt lite sphere are virulently anti-Muslim; the group abhors everyone on the left and traffics in conspiracy theories, including #Pizzagate, which claimed there was evidence of a child slavery ring operating inside a DC pizzeria. The series of increasingly outrageous lies led to death threats against the pizzerias owner and employees, and ultimately resulted in a gunman opening fire inside the restaurant in an attempt to save the imaginary children.

Some former alt right cheerleaders, including Mike Cernovich, migrated to the alt lite after refusing to openly espousethe alt rights explicitly white supremacistbeliefs. Like the alt right, the alt lite is largely populated by young people, and has a prolific online presence, using blogs and podcasts to broadcast dissatisfaction with the media and what they sweepingly refer to as globalization.

Alt right writer and white supremacist Greg Johnson describes the difference between alt right and alt lite this way: The alt light is defined by civic nationalism as opposed to racial nationalism, which is a defining characteristicof the alt right.

But while the alt right and alt lite are theoretically distinct and include a number of warring factions, as seen at dueling June 2017 rallies in Washington DC there is crossover between them. There are a number of people and groups who walk the line between alt right and alt lite, to the extent that its not always easy or even possible -- to tell which side theyre on. The Proud Boys, an alt lite, right-wing activist group founded by Gavin McInnes and dedicated to Reinstating a Spirit of Western chauvinism, is a good example of a group toeing that line; some of their members support alt right figures and events, while others have made a point of steering clear of anything associated with white supremacist beliefs.

Andrew Anglin runs the neo-Nazi website The Daily Stormer. Anglin claims that his website is designed to serve as a hardcore front for the conversion of the masses into a pro-White, anti-Semitic ideology. His preferred audience is men, specifically all disenfranchised and angry White males under the age of thirty, and he has banned women from contributing content. Anglin promotes the hatred of Jews and the denigration of minorities, particularly black people, and encourages his followers to troll and harass their enemies including journalists and private citizens. Anglin is a self-identified leader of the hardcore faction of the alt right. He also wrote a piece for the The Daily Stormer titled A Normies Guide to the Alt Right, in which he explains different facets of the movement.

Andrew Auernheimeraka Weev is a white supremacist and anti-Semite, as well as a notorious American hacker and online troll. Reportedly currently living in the Ukraine, Auernheimer writes for the neo-Nazi Daily Stormer website, and was responsible for the anti-Semitic flier sent to thousands of networked printers at campuses across the country in 2016, which was a harbinger of the alt rights efforts to recruit at college campuses. Auernheimer frequently trolls the media, and in July 2017, attempted to insert himself into the showdown between CNN and a Reddit poster who created a video of Donald Trump body-slamming CNN in a wrestling match. He has said of the alt right:Richard Spencer operates a little bit bigger of a tent than I like, but I also feel he's acting in earnest and a decent and good dude.

Andy Nowickiaka the Nameless Oneis the assistant editor of the white supremacist Alternative Right blog, which was founded by alt right leader Richard Spencer. The Alternative Right weighs in on the alt right hot topics, from white sharia and racial disparities in IQs, to the distinctions in thought between the normie world versus the alt right. While Nowicki claims he is not a white nationalist, he shares many of those views. As an editor of Alternative Right, he gives voice to the ideology of white nationalists and figures on the alt right.

Augustus Invictus (born Austin Mitchell Gillespie) is a far-right activist, attorney, and speaker from Orlando, Florida. He is a member of the Fraternal Order of Alt-Knights, the military wing of the Proud Boys. He is also the Sergeant at Arms for the Florida American Guard, a white supremacist group led by Brien James, one of the founders of the Vinlanders Social Club (VSC), a hardcore, frequently violent racist skinhead gang. At the alt rights June 25 rally in DC, Invictus claimed that while he is not part of the alt right, he stands with the alt right on the issue of free speech. Infighting on the right, he says, just takes energy away from fighting the "real enemy," which includes the federal government, the lobbyists, and people like George Soros and the Clintons.

Brad Griffinaka Hunter Wallaceis the Alabama-based white supremacist behind the Occidental Dissent blog, which celebrates Southern nationalism and the alt right. Griffin has been active in the Council of Conservative Citizens and the League of the South, both traditional white supremacist groups. He is a regular contributor to Altright.com, the online publication run by Richard Spencer and Daniel Friberg. He has also proposed creating an alt south, an alt-right version of Southern nationalism that would try to attract a broader range of people who reject mainstream conservatism and embrace some of the tactics of the alt right.

Christopher Cantwell runs Radical Agenda, a racist, pro-European, internet radio show/blog that touts its pay-to-view content as common sense extremism. Cantwell has a history of promoting anti-police and anarchist rhetoric, but has recently moved toward the extreme right, and spoke at the neo-Nazi gathering in Pikeville, Kentucky. He has interviewed and appeared alongside white supremacists Mike Enoch and Matthew Heimbach, and has written that he abandoned libertarianism for the alt right after seeing that the latter has better memes. At the June 25Free Speech Rally in DC, Cantwell urged the crowd to fight Jewish influence.

Colin Liddell is the editor-in-chief of Alternative Right, the website started by Richard Spencer in 2010. Liddell previously contributed to the white supremacist journal American Renaissance. He writes about the notion of racial equality fabricated by the liberal-leftist media and the Jewish propaganda machine. In his 2012 essay Is Black Genocide Right? he writes, Instead of asking how we can make reparations for slavery, colonialism, and apartheid or how we can equalize academic scores and incomes, we should instead be asking questions like, "Does human civilization actually need the Black race?"

Daniel Friberg is a Swedish businessman, white supremacist, and European editor, and the co-founder (with Richard Spencer) of Altright.com. He is the CEO and co-founder of Arktos Media, which features books by white nationalists, and was one of the founding members of the Motpol think tank, which organized a well-attended alt right conference in Stockholm in February 2017. In his youth, Friberg was active in the Swedish Resistance, a neo-Nazi group.

Daniel J. Kleve runs an online group called Racial Theocracy, which promotes the idea that religious fulfillment comes from the proper expression of racial, social and spiritual consequences. The group wants to spread overlooked Right Wing literature. It also promotes National Socialism as worlds only hope of a future. Kleve has set up a pool fund to help pay for travel expenses for people who wanted to attend an alt right rally.

Dillon Irizarry(aka Dillon Ulysses Hopper), a Marine Corpsveteran, has been leading the white supremacist group Vanguard America since early 2016. In a speech at the neo-Nazi gathering in Pikeville, Kentucky, a heavily-armed Irizarry claimed that Vanguard America, which is part of the umbrella Nationalist Front organization, has approximately 200 members in 20 different states. The group, which opposes multiculturalism and believes America is a nation for white people,posted white supremacist fliers at universities across the country during the 2016-17 school year. Vanguard America has participated in a number of rallies with alt right figures. In a June 2017 rally in Austin, Texas, Vanguard America appeared alongside members of The Right Stuff and The Daily Stormer.

Greg Johnson is a white supremacist and editor-in-chief of Counter-Currents Publishing and its online compendium, the North American New Right. He has also written for the Occidental Observer, an anti-Semitic online publication. Johnson calls himself a white nationalist who hopes to create racially and ethnically homogeneous homelands for whites. He holds forums in New York and in the Northwest for alt-right activists and is a leader on the alt right. He and Richard Spencer recently had a falling out over the leadership of the alt right and accusations that Johnson was trying to discredit Altright.com editor Daniel Friberg.

Jared Taylor (also known as Samuel Jared Taylor) is the founder of The New Century Foundation, a white supremacist think tank known primarily for its racist online journal, American Renaissance. The annual American Renaissance conference features extreme right speakers from the U.S. and Europe. Taylor presents himself as a "race realist" who believes that racial differences are real and that it is natural and healthy for groups to segregate along racial lines. American Renaissance generally avoids the cruderbigotry and stereotyping characteristic of many other racist publications, and Taylor himself does not appear to be anti-Semitic. Taylor is sometimes referred to as the father of the alt right due to his influence on the alt right movement. He also was one of the main speakers, with Richard Spencer, at a September 2016 news conference to"explain"the alt right movement.

Jason Kessler, of Charlottesville, Virginia, is an alt right activist and white supremacist who claims that a white genocide is underway in the United States. Kessler is the president of Unity and Security for America and is a contributor to the racist website VDare.com. He also wrote for The Daily Caller until he was revealed to be a white nationalist. At a May 2017 pro-Confederate rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, Kessler reportedly praised racist groups and a Holocaust denier, and was eventually arrested for disorderly conduct. At Junes Free Speech Rally in D.C., he told the crowd that America would be better off if the South had won the Civil War, and advanced conspiracy theories about Jews controlling Hollywood and the media and promoting filthy propaganda. Kessler is one of the organizers of the August 12 Unite the Right white supremacist rally in Charlottesville.

Jason Reza Jorjani co-founded Altright.com with Richard Spencer, and is on the sites board of directors. A lecturer in humanities at the New Jersey Institute of Technology, he is also the editor-in-chief of Arktos Media, known for publishing nationalist philosophers and New European materials. Jorjani calls Arktos the leading press of the alt right.

Johnny Ramondetta (aka Johnny Monoxide) is a white supremacist and anelectrician from Berkeley, California, who is responsible for the podcasts Paranormies Present and The Current Year Tonight, both of which are promoted on The Right Stuff Radio, a popular alt right site.Ramondettahas produced live-streams for a number of alt right events, including the April 2017 Battle of Berkeley.

Lana Lokteff is a white supremacist who runs internet media company Red Ice TV with her husband, Henrik Palmgren. Based in Sweden and North America, Red Ice features online TV and radio shows, including Lokteffs own Radio 3Fourteen, that celebrate European identity and culture. Lokteff has interviewed numerous white supremacists on the show. She also co-hosts Red Ice Live, and "Weekend Warrior," on Red Ice. In May 2017, Lotkeff appeared in a video segment with Jared Taylor of American Renaissance to discuss the women of the alt right.

Matt Forney,currently based in Budapest, Hungary and Lviv, Ukraine, is a white nationalist, anti-Semite, and misogynist who works for Red Ice Radio. Forney, who is active in the alt right, publishes bigoted and hateful rants against Islam, Jews, and women, often on AltRight.com. Forneys online videos include Holocaust denial tirade Eric Hunt-The Shoah: The Biggest Hoax of the 20th Century? Among his virulently misogynistic writings, How to Beat Your Girlfriend or Wife and Get Away with It, and The Myth of Female Intelligence, Forneys bigotry extends to people of color, Muslims, and interracial marriage. Blacks, Forney says, do nothing but murder cops, rob and rape people, and bring death and destruction wherever they go.

Matthew Heimbach is one of the co-founders of the Traditionalist Worker Party (TWP). TWP claims to be the political arm of an earlier white supremacist endeavor, the Traditionalist Youth Network (TYN), which was created to attract young people, particularly college students, to the white supremacist movement. In 2016 and 2017, TWP has participated in white supremacist events all over the country, including the neo-Nazi rally in Pikeville, Kentucky. Heimbach is intensely anti-Semitic and a Holocaust denier. Alongside National Socialist Movement leader Jeff Schoep, Heimbach co-chairs the Nationalist Front, an umbrella organization of approximately 20 white supremacist organizations, including racist skinhead crews, Klan groups, and neo-Nazi groups. Heimbach started out promoting conservative causes in college but moved further and further to the right, eventually embracing National Socialism. He showed up at Auburn University in Alabama in April 2017 to protect Richard Spencer, who spoke there. Heimbach is scheduled to speak August 12 at thewhite supremacist United the Right event, where he'll be joined byother alt right figures.

Matthew Parrott is the co-founder, with his son-in-law, Matthew Heimbach, of the Traditionalist Worker Party, the "political arm" of theTraditionalist Youth Network.The group promotes white supremacy and a racist interpretation of Christianity, and models itself after the European Identitaire movement, which advocates preserving white European culture and identity in Western countries. Parrott, a frequent contributor to AlternativeRight.com, outlined his belief system in a 2013 essay in the white supremacist online journal Counter-Currents. Though he says that he doesnt wholeheartedly support the philosophies of Hitler, the Klan, or Southern segregation, he sees them as ideological progenitors and fallen forefathers.

Mike Peinovich(aka Mike Enoch), of New Jersey,is the founder of The Right Stuff (TRS), a racist and anti-Semitic website and well-known voice of the alt right. Peinovich, who frequently appears at events alongside Richard Spencer, hosts a TRS podcast called "The Daily Shoah which promotes anti-Semitic commentary. Peinovich spoke at the May 13 gathering in Charlottesville in defense of southern monuments, and attended the April 29 neo-Nazi rally in Pikeville, Kentucky. Peinovich blames immigration and diversity policies for the displacement and genocide of the white race. He also fixates on anti-Semitic conspiracy theories about Jews controlling the Federal Reserve, banks, media, and foreign policy. At Junes Free Speech Rally, he said, Its Jews, we know that its Jews. Why do we go to war in the Middle East against our countrys interests, against the interests of our race? Its because of Jewish control.

Nathan Damigo, an Iraq war veteran and student at California State University, Stanislaus, founded Identity Evropa in early 2016. The white supremacist student group is concerned with preserving white American culture and promoting white European identity. It is also known for distributing racist fliers at dozens of campuses across the country. At the June 25, 2017, Free Speech Rally in D.C., Damigo said that America was founded by white people for white people and was not founded to be a multiracial or multicultural society. In April, 2017, Damigo told a reporter he sees the alt right as the next natural step to take this decentralized internet-based movement into the real world. Were trying to create a fraternity and brotherhood for people who have awakened and who see the world in a different light. We want to get the normies attention.

Pax Dickinson was the Chief Technology officer for Business Insider until he was fired after posting a number of offensive tweets attacking the LGBT community, women, Jews, and African-Americans. He has since founded CounterFund, a crowd-funding platform built by and for the wider alt right counterculture. Richard Spencer is an enthusiastic supporter, and has said, the fund might become the most important counter assault against the SJW [social justice warrior] insanity of the past decade. Dickinson is listed as one of the speakers at the white supremacist Unite the Right rally scheduled for August 12 in Charlottesville, Virginia.

Richard Spencer, of Alexandria, Virginia, is aleader of the alt right movement and a symbol for a new generation of intellectual white supremacists. Spencer, who wants to see a new right that openly embraces white racial consciousness, coined the term alternative right in an article he wrote for Takis Magazine in 2008. He uses the term to refer to people on the right of the political spectrum who distinguish themselves from traditional conservatives by opposing, among other things, egalitarianism, multiculturalism, and open immigration. In 2010, Spencer created an online publication called Alternative Right, where he explicitly promoted white supremacist philosophies. In recent years, Spencer has become more openly anti-Semitic, and now says he wants to establish a white ethno-state in the U.S., where whites can live separately from non-whites and Jews. Since 2011, Spencer has been the President of the National Policy Institute (NPI); he also runs Altright.com, a more provocative iteration of his previous online effort, Alternative Right. The new website is aimed at a younger demographic.

Tara McCarthy is a British alt right media personality who hosts the Reality Calls podcast, which boasts the tagline,Lets Make Western Civilization Great Again. The goal of the show is to help make ethno-nationalist views more socially acceptable, and to educate people on the dangers of globalism and replacement migration from the third world. She has interviewed numerous white supremacists on the show, but denies being a white supremacist herself. She also co-hosts a podcast (with Brittany Pettibone) called Virtue of the West, which features interviews with people associated with both the alt right and the alt lite. McCarthy considers herself part of the alt right.

Theodore Bealeaka Vox Dayis a champion of the alt right movement who claims to have popularized the termcuckservative. A science fiction writer, video game designer and blogger, Beale is best known in alt right circles for his online blog Vox Popoli (Voice of the People) where he posts misogynistic, white supremacist diatribes. In a blogarticleabout women and academics, he wrote, But the salient point is that the price of female involvement is reliably too high across the board. How much more destruction can Western Civilization be expected to survive before women of sense are willing to admit that the price of female participation in matters of governance is too great? In another article he wrote, The disease known as women's rights is literally killing women. He also tweeted, But if a society can't talk women into marrying, bearing, and raising children, it will have no choice but to either force them to do it or die. He has tweeted about his white nationalist beliefs, as well: I am a red nationalist although I support white nationalism too. In another tweet he referred to himself as an alt right nationalist.Beales white supremacist beliefs are on full display in one of his primary talking points: The Alt Right believes we must secure the existence of white people and a future for white children. This is an unabashed homage to the white supremacist 14 words mantra.

Tim Treadstone Gionet aka Baked Alaskaof Anchorage, Alaska, is a former BuzzFeed editor turned right-wing internet personality. Gionet managed alt lite provocateur Milo Yiannopoulos's college tour, but just before the 2016 election, made a series of anti-Semitic tweets about Jewish control of the media, which put him at odds with others in alt lite circles, and moved him into the alt right orbit. Gionet has also dabbled in white supremacist tropes, posting a restaurant receipt showing a tip for $14.88, and writing, Now that Trump won, Ive decided to start tipping my fellow humans wayyy[sic] more. At the June Free Speech Rally in D.C., Gionet asked the crowd, Everyone on the right can agree that they dont like Islam is that correct?

Brittany Pettibone writes science fiction and co-hosts the Virtue of the West podcast with Tara McCarthy. The podcast encourages listeners to reconnect with the traditional values that once made Western Civilization great, including but not limited to the glorification of the nuclear family, motherhood, masculinity, femininity, etiquette, traditional gender roles and love of ones own culture, race and country. Pettibone, unlike McCarthy, does not explicitly identify as part of the alt right, but she walks the very thin line that separates that group from the alt lite. Whatever her personal beliefs, Pettibone uses her podcast to amplify the views of the alt right by interviewing members of the movement. In July 2017, Pettibone traveled to Sicily to join Defend Europes efforts to keep NGO boats of African refugees from reaching the continent. "Defend Europe" is run by the far-right group Generation Identity, which claims to be protecting Europe against"Islamic invasion.

Colton Merwin is a 19-year-old self-identified filmmaker/photographer and activist from Baltimore, Maryland. He emerged on the alt right scene when he organized the June 25 Free Speech Rally in DC, an effort that attracted notable alt right personalities including Richard Spencer and Nathan Damigo (of Identity Evropa). Merwin is also affiliated with the Maryland Proud Boys. Despite his organizing and activism on the groups behalf, Merwin claims he is not part of the alt right.

Corey Stewart, a failed 2017 Virginia GOP gubernatorial candidate, was the states Trump campaign co-chair until he was fired for attending an anti-RNC rally in October 2016. Stewart champions the preservation of Confederate monuments in the South, and has defended the heritage of the Confederate flag. He referred to his Republican primary opponent a cuckservative. Stewart was a featured speaker at the alt lite Rally Against Political Violence on June 25 in Washington, D.C.

Gavin McInnes, Proud Boys leader and Vice magazine founder, currently contributes to an online right-wing outlet Rebel Media. McInnes, who left Vice in 2008, is a co-founder of the Fraternal Order of the Alt-Knights (FOAK), the tactical defensive arm of the Proud Boys, a right-wing activist group founded by McInnes and dedicated to Reinstating a Spirit of Western chauvinism. McInnes was accused of anti-Semitism in March 2017, when he posted a video on Rebel Media called "Ten Things I Hate about Jews," which was later retitled "Ten Things I Hate About Israel." Even after this incident, McInnis has been criticized by the alt right for refusing to promote the conspiracy theory that Jews control the world. McInnis eschews the white supremacist label and describes himself as a "Western chauvinist who hails "Judeo-Christian values" as superior to all others.

Jack Posobiec, a conspiracy theorist andauthor,organized Junes Rally Against Political Violence, after learning that Richard Spencer would be speaking at the Free Speech Rally. He also helmed the DeploraBall, a 2017 inaugural event that attracted many from the alt right and alt lite spheres. He has enthusiastically promoted a range oflies, including the Pizzagate hoax, and attempted to discredit anti-Trump activists by planting an inflammatory Rape Melania sign at a protest event. He frequently tweets anti-Muslim sentiments, and has harassed former Hillary Clinton aide Huma Abedin with anti-Muslim slurs online and in person,tweeting, I screamed Muslim Brotherhood at Huma Abedin." He also posted to Facebook:Citizen Journalist Jack Posobiec Asks Huma Abedin Is the Muslim Brotherhood Paying Your Legal Fees?Posobiec was among the protesters who stormed the stage during New York Public Theaters controversial run of Julius Caesar, shouting, You are all Goebbels! You are all Nazis like Joseph Goebbels... you are inciting terrorists," and, The blood of Steve Scalise is on your hands! Posobiec has clashed verbally with white supremacist Richard Spencer, who called Posobiecs Rally Against Political Violence pathetic.Posobiec was until recentlythe Washington correspondent for right-wing Rebel Media.

Kyle Chapman, also known as Based Stick Man or the Alt Knight, gained hero status in the world of right-wing activism when, armed with a stick and wearing a helmet, he confronted antifa demonstrators in Berkeley. He has called on members of his recently formed group, the Fraternal Order of the Alt Knights, (described as the military wing of the Proud Boys), to battle left-wing groups.

Kyle Prescott is an advocate and recruiter (mainly on social media) for the Proud Boys, a right-wing activist group founded by Gavin McInnes and dedicated to Reinstating a Spirit of Western chauvinism. The Proud Boys claim to be anti-racist, pro-First Amendment, pro-Second Amendment. They venerate the housewife and glorify the entrepreneur. Prescott believes that the left (which he describes as race-baiters and social justice warriors) is responsible for most political violence. Prescott attended Junes Rally Against Political Violence.

Lucian Wintrich is aconservative activist and White House correspondent for the The Gateway Pundit, a right-wing blog sometimes associated with the alt right, and known for promoting conspiracy theories and propaganda. During the 2016 campaign, Wintrich organized a Twinks4Trump photo series featuring provocative pictures of men wearing Make America Great Again caps. The photos were featured atthe Wake Up! LGBT party at the 2016 Republican National Convention,which Wintrich helped organize. Wintrich called the eventa huge successwith incredible speakers, includingIslamaphobes like Pamela Geller and far-right Dutch politician Geert Wilders, who told party-goers, First, we should acknowledge that Islam is the problemif you allow Islam to be planted on your soil, don't be afraid that you will harvest sharia law, because Islam and sharia law [are] exactly the same.In the past, Wintrich identified with the alt right, but told Andrew Marantz of The New Yorker, For a while, alt-right was the perfect catchall for anti-establishment conservatism. A lot of us are still frustrated that Richard Spencer ruined the term for the rest of us."Wintrich spoke at Junes Rally Against Political Violence.

Mike Cernovich is a Southern California-based blogger, YouTube personality, author,filmmaker, conspiracy theoristand radio host who has a predominantly right-wing following on social media. He is an unapologetic misogynist, and has claimed that date rape does not exist, writing on his website, "Thinking, I might have been date raped, means you werent raped. To markInternational Women's Day, he tweeted: Teach women to stop lying about rape."Cernovich describes himself as an American nationalist, and has written, IQ tests for immigrants would solve most of our problems. If I could only do ONE act, that would be it." While heis not partof the alt right, that was notalwaysthe case, as heexplained in this tweet: I went from libertarian to alt right after realizing tolerance only went one way and diversity is a code for white genocide. More recently, he rejected the term alt right because of its associations with white supremacists. Cernovich is known for his promotion of the Pizzagate conspiracy theory, which propagated outrageous claims about child trafficking and culminated in Edgar Welch firing an AR-15 as he entered D.C.s Comet Ping Pong pizzeria. He has also allegedly commissioned a blatantly anti-Semitic cartoon to use as part of his campaign against U.S. National Security Advisor H. R. McMaster.He is a contributor to Alex Jones Infowars.

Milo Yiannopoulos is a controversial media personality and provocateur. While he refers to himself as "the world's most fabulous supervillain, and claims to be a conservative and a fearless bulwark against the encroaching forces of political correctness, Yiannopoulos is actually an instigatorwho specializes in attacking groups he dislikes. He has launched vicious trolling attacks against women, Black Lives Matter activists, transgender people and Muslims.

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Origin of alt-rightFirst recorded in 200510; associated shortly after with Richard Spencer, U.S. white nationalist (born 1978); shortening of alt(ernative) + right (in the sense political conservatives)historical usage of alt-right

Though the term alt-right was used in certain circles as early as 20052010, it first received mainstream attention in the lead-up to the 2016 U.S. presidential election. There has been so much confusion and debate around the term that many news organizations have felt compelled to explain in their official style guides how they will use or not use it. Media outlets including the Associated Press , the New York Times , the Guardian , and National Public Radio have all come to the conclusion that the term alt-right should not be used without further qualifying information, from prefacing the term with so-called to clearly stating that the alt-right is a hate group. Several of these guides suggest the use of less euphemistic, more explicit language such as white supremacist , white nationalist , or neo-Nazi in place of the term alt-right . The term alt-right has been seen as an effort to rebrand various hate groups in order to appeal to an internet-savvy generation. The first element, alt-, is a shortening of alternative . It has positive connotations for many younger people, often being paired with music genres to suggest a more hip offshoot of the original: alt-rock , alt-country , alt-folk . Critics of the term alt-right believe that it sanitizes, masks, and normalizes the true nature of the ideologies upon which this movement was formed.

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Haiti at fore as Caribbean leaders tackle regional issues – The Associated Press – en Espaol

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  1. Haiti at fore as Caribbean leaders tackle regional issues  The Associated Press - en Espaol
  2. Prime Minister strengthens ties with the Caribbean, announces new support for the Haitian people  Prime Minister of Canada
  3. At Bahamas summit, Caribbean leaders to seek international push on Haiti  Reuters.com

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Bitcoin and Ethereum take a hit as cryptocurrency market drops over 3% in 24 hours – India TV News

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Jitsi Meet review | TechRadar

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With so many meetings migrating from the physical to the digital, its no wonder that a huge number of video conferencing platforms have emerged. In this Jitsi Meet review, we take a look at one of the best video conferencing software in 2021 (opens in new tab).

Jitsi Meet (opens in new tab) takes simplicity and ease of use to new levels and enables you to conduct a video call for multiple participants without an account and for free. Read on to learn whether Jitsi Meet has the functionality you require to host your next video conferencing event.

Jitsi Meet is a subsidiary of VoIP company 8x8, and the companys paid-for video conferencing service, 8x8 Meet, a more feature-heavy version of Jitsi Meet, is advertised on the Jitsi Meet website. Jitsi Meet itself is free forever and doesnt include any tiered price plans.

You can also install Jitsi as a service on an existing website or app to create an integrated video calling function. 8x8 Jitsi as a Service (JaaS) is a separate product developed by the Jitsi organization and is free to use, but active users are capped at 25.

Beyond this, JaaS Basic allows 300 users and costs $99 dollars a month, Jaas Standard costs $499 a month and facilitates up to 1,500 users, while for $999, Jaas Business allows 3,000 active users.

Jitsi is an open-source platform that includes a number of audio and video communication projects. Jitsi Meet is the platforms flagship product and is free to use as a web, iOS, Android, or F Droid app. It includes HD audio and video, unlimited meetings for up to 50 guests, end-to-end encryption, screen sharing, remote desktop controls, and third-party integrations with Google, Slack, and Microsoft products.

Unusually for free video conferencing software, which regularly cap the length of meetings, Jitsti enables you to stay online for as long as is necessary. Meetings are in HD video and audio, and you can invite up to 50 participants.

Its easy to share meeting invites too. All you need to do is create a custom URL and distribute it to your guests.

Jitsi Meet integrates with Google, Microsoft, and Slack. You can use this integration to connect your calendar, add a browser extension, live stream video content on YouTube (via a Google account), and more.

For a free-to-use service, we were very impressed by the number of in-call options available. As well as screen sharing, remote desktop control, and a chat facility, there are the options to mute speakers, blur your background, record calls, and manage call quality.

As a moderator, you can also decide on other call parameters. For example, you can select an option that ensures everyone who joins the call is automatically muted.

Creating a meeting using Jitsi Meet is incredibly quick and simple. You dont have to create an account or provide any personal details. You just need to navigate to the website and enter a name for your meeting.

Next, a new meeting screen opens and you can join. There is a large Invite more people button at the top of the page. When you select this option, you can choose to share the meeting URL, or invite people in via a dial-in number.

Fundamental features such as screen sharing, leave call, mute, and chat functions are located prominently at the base of the screen. Further in-call functions are accessed via the three vertical dots to the right of the meeting screen. They are well referenced and easy to distinguish.

We were impressed by the call and video quality. We were also surprised to see the high level of design and functionality that had gone into a free service.

There is no dedicated commercial or personal support for Jitsi Meet. Instead, any queries should be directed to the community. As an open-source project, its not surprising that the Jitsi community page is very active.

Its not difficult to find help if you need it by searching for topics. You can also navigate via the Categories tab. Although not a dedicated support page, it is a helpful resource, and the Jitsi community is very passionate and active.

Security is a key concern for the Jitsi Meet platform. The product includes a rage of advanced security measures that can be toggled during calls. These include the option to create meeting passwords; lobby mode, which only enables users to enter a meeting if approved by a moderator; and end-to-end encryption.

At present, Jitsi Meets end-to-end encryption feature is in what it refers to as experimental mode. One of the consequences of this is that server-side functions, such as recording and live streaming, are disabled when the encryption feature is enabled.

Zoom is probably the most popular video conferencing software available with paid-for and free options, but for the purposes of this review, well just compare its free plan. In many ways, Jitsi Meet blows it out of the water. As well as a sleeker design, the platform enables unlimited call times, while Zooms group calls are capped at 40 minutes on the free plan.

Microsoft Teams free plan does enable up to 100 participants, double the allowance on Jitsi Meet, but again calls are capped on time: with Microsoft Teams there is a 60-minute limit. On top of this, both Zoom and Microsoft teams require you to create an account.

We were thoroughly impressed by the breadth of features, ease of use, and enhanced security Jitsi Meet provided. Some users may be put off by the fact that support can only be accessed through the community, but this is a common feature of open source projects.

Jitsi Meet deserves to be well-known beyond the developer community. The unlimited call limit alone is enough for us to rate this as one of the best, if not the best, free meeting platforms available.

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Introduction to Cryonics – Alcor

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Cryonics is an effort to save lives by using temperatures so cold that a person beyond help by todays medicine can be preserved for decades or centuries until a future medical technology can restore that person to full health.

Cryonics sounds like science fiction, but is based on modern science. Its an experiment in the most literal sense of the word. The question you have to ask yourself is this: would you rather be in the experimental group, or the control group?

Cryonics is justified by three facts that are not well known:

1) Life can be stopped and restarted if its basic structure is preserved.

Human embryos are routinely preserved for years at temperatures that completely stop the chemistry of life. Adult humans have survived cooling to temperatures that stop the heart, brain, and all other organs from functioning for up to an hour. These and many other lessons of biology teach us that life is a particular structure of matter. Life can be stopped and restarted if cell structure and chemistry are preserved sufficiently well.

2) Vitrification (not freezing) can preserve biological structure very well.

Adding high concentrations of chemicals called cryoprotectants to cells permits tissue to be cooled to very low temperatures with little or no ice formation. The state of no ice formation at temperatures below -120C is called vitrification. It is now possible to physically vitrify organs as large as the human brain, achieving excellent structural preservation without freezing.

3) Methods for repairing structure at the molecular level can now be foreseen.

The emerging science of nanotechnology will eventually lead to devices capable of extensive tissue repair and regeneration, including repair of individual cells one molecule at a time. This future nanomedicine could theoretically recover any preserved person in which the basic brain structures encoding memory and personality remain inferable, which typically occurs well after spontaneous function has been lost.

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Then cryonics should work, even though it cannot be demonstrated to work today. That is the scientific justification for cryonics. It is a justification that grows stronger with every new advance in preservation technology.

Death occurs when the chemistry of life becomes so disorganized that normal operation cannot be restored. (Death is not when life turns off. People can and have survived being turned off.) How much chemical disorder can be survived depends on medical technology. A hundred years ago, cardiac arrest was irreversible. People were called dead when their heart stopped beating. Today death is believed to occur 4 to 6 minutes after the heart stops beating because after several minutes it is difficult to resuscitate the brain. However, with new experimental treatments, more than 10 minutes of warm cardiac arrest can now be survived without brain injury. Future technologies for molecular repair may extend the frontiers of resuscitation beyond 60 minutes or more, making todays beliefs about when death occurs obsolete.

Ultimately, real death occurs when cell structure and chemistry become so disorganized that no technology could restore the original state. This is called the information-theoretic criterion for death. Any other definition of death is arbitrary and subject to continual revision as technology changes. That is certainly the case for death pronounced on the basis of absent vital signs today, which is not real death at all.

The object of cryonics is to prevent death by preserving sufficient cell structure and chemistry so that recovery (including recovery of memory and personality) remains possible by foreseeable technology. If indeed cryonics patients are recoverable in the future, then clearly they were never really dead in the first place. Todays physicians will simply have been wrong about when death occurs, as they have been so many times in the past. The argument that cryonics cannot work because cryonics patients are dead is a circular argument.

More than one hundred people have been cryopreserved since the first case in 1967. More than one thousand people have made legal and financial arrangements for cryonics with one of several organizations, usually by means of affordable life insurance. Alcor is the largest organization, and distinguished among cryonics organizations by its advanced technology and advocacy of a medical approach to cryonics.

Alcor procedures ideally begin within moments of cardiac arrest. Blood circulation and breathing are artificially restored, and a series of medications are administered to protect the brain from lack of oxygen. Rapid cooling also begins, which further protects the brain. The goal is to keep the brain alive by present-day criteria for as long as possible into the procedure. It is not always possible to respond so rapidly and aggressively, but that is Alcors ideal, and it has been achieved in many cases.

In 2001 Alcor adapted published breakthroughs in the field of organ preservation to achieve what we believe is ice-free preservation (vitrification) of the human brain. This is a method of stabilizing the physical basis of the human mind for practically unlimited periods of time. The procedure involves partly replacing water in cells with a mixture of chemicals that prevent ice formation. Kidneys have fully recovered after exposure to the same chemicals in published studies.

Alcors future goals include expanding ice-free cryopreservation (vitrification) beyond the brain to include the entire human body, and reducing the biochemical alterations of the process to move closer to demonstrable reversibility. Based on the remarkable progress being made in conventional organ banking research, we believe that demonstrably reversible preservation of the human brain is a medical objective that could be achieved in the natural lifetime of most people living today.

To learn more, please read our list of Frequently Asked Questions and the many other articles in the Alcor Library.

Figure 1: Pre-1992 freezing damage in brain tissue after treatment with 3 molar glycerol. This light micrograph prepared by freeze substitution in the frozen state shows extensive ice crystal damage. This is the kind of damage that many commentators assume is common in cryonics patients. Their assumption is outdated and incorrect.

Figure 2: Pre-1992 freezing damage in brain tissue after treatment with 4 molar glycerol. This electron micrograph prepared after thawing shows tears surrounding a capillary, and a naked cell nucleus with no cell membrane (dark rounded object). There seems to be less damage in frozen-thawed tissue than in tissue imaged in the frozen state.

Figure 3: 1992-2001 freezing damage in brain tissue after treatment with 7.5 molar glycerol. This electron micrograph prepared after thawing shows tears surrounding a capillary, but otherwise good structural preservation. With this protocol, ice damage occurs at intervals throughout the brain, but with most of the volume remaining ice-free.

Figure 4: Today brain tissue preserved with a modern vitrification solution shows virtually no freezing damage. Whole neurons are visible with intact membranes and well defined structure. This is the excellent brain preservation which Alcor can now achieve in human patients. Most experts who complain about damage caused by cryonics procedures are unaware that such preservation is now possible.

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