American Nazis: white supremacists (video)

Frontline (PBS); A.C. Thompson, Amy Goodman, Juan Gonzalez (decomcracynow.org, Nov. 20, 2018, donate); Pat Macpherson, Sheldon S., Seth Auberon (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

Documenting Hate: New American Nazis

WATCH FREE (54:18), FRONTLINE (S36, E17) and ProPublica report on the resurgence of white supremacist groups in the U.S. “Documenting Hate: New American Nazis” investigates a violent neo-Nazi group that has actively recruited inside the U.S. military and examines the group’s Christian terrorist objectives. 

 

New American Nazis: Inside the white supremacist movement that fueled Pittsburgh synagogue shooting

Fight the non-power, White Nationalists.

Neo-Nazis are on the rise in America. Nearly a month after a white male gunman killed 11 Jewish worshipers at the Tree of Life Synagogue in Pittsburgh, Democracy Now! looks at the violent hate groups that helped fuel the massacre. On the same day that white shooter Robert Bowers opened fire in the synagogue, a neo-Nazi named Edward Clark -- with whom Bowers had been communicating online -- took his own life in Washington, D.C. The man’s brother, Jeffrey Clark, has since been arrested on weapons charges. The brothers were both linked to the violent white supremacy group Atomwaffen. Democracy Now! speaks with A.C. Thompson, correspondent for FRONTLINE PBS and reporter for ProPublica. His investigation, “Documenting Hate: New American Nazis,” premieres tonight on PBS stations and online.

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Racism in Trump Land, Virginia? (video)

Pfc. Sandoval, Pat Macpherson, Seth Auberon (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly; CPX; AP; CNN; CBS

 

Racist plows car in the counter-protesters

I don't know big words. They took my phone.

(US News Today) Pres. Trump addresses white supremacist rally -- with someone else tweeting for him and writing things for him to read with words that are too big for his small understanding -- after clashes between racists and protesters in Charlottesville.
 

White nationalist rally linked to 3 deaths

Excuse me, sir. Are you an n-word?

CHARLOTTESVILLE, Virginia - A racist driver plowed a car into a crowd of anti-racists peacefully counter-demonstrating a white nationalist rally today.

It happened [Saturday, Aug. 12th, 2017] in a Virginia college town, killing one person, hurting more than a dozen others, and ratcheting up tension in a day full of violent confrontations.

White nationalists (neo-Nazis) rally in favor of Confederate history in Virginia (AP)

Shortly after, a Virginia State Police helicopter that officials said was assisting with the rally crashed outside Charlottesville, killing the pilot and a trooper.

The chaos boiled over at what is believed to be the largest group of white nationalists [hate filled neo-Nazis, KKK members, and white supremacists] to come together in a decade.

We're the new KKK! No more racism?

The governor declared a state of emergency, and police dressed in riot gear [beat people, sprayed them with toxic chemicals, and] ordered people out. The group had gathered to protest plans to remove a statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee, and others arrived to protest the racism.

 

KKK does not joke: secede

Matt Korbon, a 22-year-old University of Virginia student, said several hundred counter-protesters were marching when "suddenly there was just this tire screeching sound." A silver Dodge Challenger smashed into another car, then backed up, barreling through "a sea of people."

 

We should be killing Koreans not each other!

The impact hurled people into the air. Those left standing scattered, screaming and running for safety in different directions.

The driver was later identified by police as James Alex Fields Jr. of Ohio. Police say Fields, 20, has been charged with second-degree murder, three counts of malicious wounding, and one count related to leaving the scene. More+ PHOTOS

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Hard Times are crowding the Yoga Ashrams

Fantasy: living in a commune is a hippiefest of tuning in and dropping out (Tugster).

Sara Eckel (NY Times, July 15, 2009)

Yoga retreats with chores attract the weary and unemployed.

Shortly after Steven Odnoha lost his job at Intel, he drove three days from Rio Rancho, N.M., to the Himalayan Institute in Honesdale, Pennsylvania. For months, Mr. Odnoha had been wondering how he could get the time off to join a yearlong meditation program at the nonprofit yoga retreat. His pink slip, in September 2007, provided the answer.

“I figured if I stayed for a year, the economy would be warming up by then, and I could head back and see what’s available for a semiconductor manufacturing technician,” said Mr. Odnoha, 40, as he picked wild thyme from a small garden outside the institute’s kitchen.

Obviously, the economy didn’t cooperate, but Mr. Odnoha doesn’t mind. Now he spends his days on the Himalayan Institute’s 400-acre wooded campus, practicing hatha yoga and meditation, studying spiritual texts, biking, walking, and preparing meals in the institute’s kitchen. In exchange for his cooking duties and an annual fee of $3,000, he gets a private room, three vegetarian meals a day, and unlimited access to the institute’s classes, seminars, and other events.

Reality: slice of heaven, lunch prep at the Himalayan Inst. in Honesdale, PA (NYT).

The Himalayan Institute is one of many retreats where cash-strapped spiritual seekers can participate in work-study programs in which they pay typically $300 to $900 a month in exchange for a few hours a day of service, like washing dishes, cleaning rooms or weeding gardens.

As the unemployment rate has risen and people have sought refuge from the harsh economy, these work-exchanges have become a hot commodity. The Himalayan Institute received twice as many applications for its summer work-study programs this year as last — its August session is full, with 22 people, compared with 11 last year — and so did two similar retreats, Tassajara Zen Mountain Center in Carmel Valley, California, and Satchidananda Ashram in Buckingham, Virginia (which is better known as "Yogaville").

The people who run these programs say there seems to be a link between the troubled job market and the rising popularity of yoga retreats. More>>

Move to Yogaville

NPR Radio "Day to Day," Your Money segment

• Broke and Jobless? There's Always Yogaville

Where do you go when you run out of money? One alternative to mom's couch is an ashram in rural Virginia. People who were recently laid off are welcome, so long as they're willing to clean, forsake beer and meditate daily.

Day to Day (March 17, 2009) · Where would you go when you're running out of money? As the economy continues to sputter, I've turned this question into a hypothetical game of sorts.

At gatherings held by my (mostly unemployed journalist) friends in Los Angeles, a city where the jobless rate now stands at 20 percent, we'd rank the obvious options: parents' house, friends' futon, military. Then there's the less obvious ones: laboring on an organic farm... More>>