https://www.nbcnews.com/nbc-out/out-news/fb-asking-videos-racist-website-connection-colorado-shooting-rcna60188

FBI asking about videos and racist website in connection with Colorado shooting

A former neighbor said the suspect wanted “a platform where people could go and post pretty much whatever they want.”

Dec. 6, 2022, 5:04 PM EST

By Jo Yurcaba and Ben Collins

The FBI is asking about two websites in connection with last month’s shooting at an LGBTQ nightclub in Colorado that left five dead and 17 others injured, a former neighbor and friend of the suspect told NBC News.

The former neighbor, Xavier Kraus, said an FBI agent asked him about the two websites at an FBI field office in Colorado Springs last Thursday afternoon after an agent called him earlier that day.

One of the websites, Kraus said he told investigators, was created by Anderson Lee Aldrich, 22, who was charged Tuesday with 305 criminal counts, including first-degree murder and bias-motivated crimes, in the mass shooting at Club Q in Colorado Springs shortly before midnight on Nov. 19. Aldrich was subdued by three club patrons shortly after the shooting began and was then arrested by authorities.

The website allegedly created by Aldrich is a forum-type “free speech” site where people have anonymously posted racist and antisemitic memes, language and videos.

A video on the homepage titled “Wrong Targets” advocates for killing civilians as part of a larger effort to “assassinate the elites at the top” and “cleanse” society.

A link on the homepage that reads “Visit Our Brother Site!” directs to a webpage with links to four short videos, each uploaded in two different formats, that appear to have been posted in the hours leading up to the shooting.

Two of the videos show the inside of a Toyota at night; in one, the dashboard clock reads 11:44, and the person recording the video says “OK” before ending it. Local police began receiving 911 calls about a shooting at Club Q at 11:56 p.m.

The videos appear to have gone up from 9:28 p.m. to 11:43 p.m. local time on the night of the shooting. While it is unclear who recorded and posted the videos, one frame in the 11:44 video shows a reflection in the rearview mirror that resembles Aldrich.

The “brother site” previously hosted video of the mass shooting at a supermarket in Buffalo, New York, in May that left 10 people dead, according to an archive of the page that was viewed by NBC News. Links to the site were quickly shared on the extremist sites 4chan and 8kun (formerly 8chan) in the days after the shooting, where the site and video were discussed.

Public defenders representing Aldrich, who is being held without bond, didn’t immediately respond to NBC News’ request for comment.

A spokesperson for the FBI’s Denver field office said, “The Denver FBI Field Office, the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division, National Security Division, and the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Colorado are aware of the situation regarding the shooting in Colorado Springs at Club Q, and we will review all available facts of the incident to determine what federal response is warranted.” The Colorado Springs police department didn’t return a request for comment.

>>17901578

>the suspect wanted “a platform where people could go and post pretty much whatever they want.”

Kraus, who, according to public records, lived one door away from Aldrich in a Colorado Springs apartment complex, said he told the FBI that Aldrich made the free speech website in late spring or early summer. Kraus said Aldrich described the site as “a platform where people could go and post pretty much whatever they want.”

“At the time, I was like, OK, I can kind of get behind that, I guess, not really realizing what it was going to actually turn into,” Kraus said. He added that he and Aldrich — whose attorneys have said is nonbinary and uses they/them pronouns — visited the site together at Aldrich’s apartment about two or three times after the site was live, and that Aldrich once said they had forgotten to moderate the content added by others.

Kraus said that most of the posts currently on the site, including the racist content, were not there when he visited it with Aldrich. A message at the top of the site’s homepage states, “There are two Rules. NO CP and NO SPAMMING,” with “CP” presumably referring to child pornography.

Kraus said the agents asked whether Aldrich posted the “Wrong Targets” video on the homepage. Kraus said he told them that the video’s placement on the site “was something that only an admin could do.” He knew this because he had previously visited the site with Aldrich, but he was unable to confirm that Aldrich was the one to post the video.

The FBI also asked Kraus about the “brother site” that included the video links and whether he knew anything about it or what was on it, he said. Kraus said an agent unsuccessfully tried to access that site on a laptop while Kraus was at the field office, and a subsequent text message between Kraus and the agent also shows the agent was unable to open it at the time.

One of the four videos appears to quickly pan around the inside of an apartment. Kraus confirmed that the apartment shown was the apartment that Aldrich had lived in with their mother when Aldrich and Kraus were neighbors.

One of the videos is completely black throughout, and the two videos recorded inside the vehicle are dark, but some details can be made out. In one of the vehicle videos, the person recording says, “Shoutout to professional seven sins,” and the car dashboard clock reads 10:06.

After listening to the voice in the videos, Kraus said it “sounds very, very similar” to Aldrich, but he could not confirm this with certainty.

When asked about the “professional seven sins” remark, Kraus said that he and Aldrich were both familiar with an online community called Se7en Sins Gaming Community, but Kraus didn’t know the meaning of the remark. One of the administrators of this online community goes by the name “Professional.”

If this remark was meant to refer to the online gaming community and is tied to the alleged Club Q gunman, it would not be the first time such a reference was made by a mass shooter. Brenton Tarrant, who in 2019 shot and killed 51 people at two mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand, said during a livestream of the shootings, “subscribe to PewDiePie,” a reference to a viral meme about a popular YouTuber who posted videos of himself playing video games. A livestream of the shooting was posted to 8chan, eventually leading to the site’s ban in New Zealand and rebranding to 8kun.

Less than one month later, a shooter at the Poway Synagogue in California posted a largely identical manifesto to the Christchurch shooter on 8chan shortly before the attack. Investigators said the shooter tried and failed to set up a livestream of the shooting.

Kraus said that he has felt a “tremendous amount of guilt” since the Club Q shooting. He said that he did not challenge Aldrich when they made racist or homophobic statements, including stating that they “hate faggots,” because Aldrich was “an angry person” who also owned guns.

“I know that this wasn’t something that I did, but, I don’t know how to explain it, I feel absolutely horrible knowing that I knew somebody and got to know somebody and made friends with somebody that could go in and do this horrible thing,” Kraus said. “There’s some nights I just cry, because it could have been me, it could have been, who knows what could have happened — it’s just terrifying.”

>>17901579

>https://www.nbcnews.com/nbc-out/out-news/fb-asking-videos-racist-website-connection-colorado-shooting-rcna60188

https://twitter.com/oneunderscore__/status/1600298754350776321

https://apnews.com/article/colorado-gun-politics-springs-government-and-b50a5145593afe1f7f4c18ac06f70600

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (AP) — Anderson Lee Aldrich loaded bullets into a Glock pistol and chugged vodka, ominously warning frightened grandparents not to stand in the way of an elaborate plan to stockpile guns, ammo, body armor and a homemade bomb to become “the next mass killer.”

“You guys die today and I’m taking you with me,” they quoted Aldrich as saying. “I’m loaded and ready.”

So began a day of terror Aldrich unleashed in June 2021 that, according to sealed law enforcement documents verified by The Associated Press, brought SWAT teams and the bomb squad to a normally quiet Colorado Springs neighborhood, forced the grandparents to flee for their lives and prompted the evacuation of 10 nearby homes to escape a possible bomb blast. It culminated in a standoff that the then-21-year-old livestreamed on Facebook, showing Aldrich in tactical gear inside the mother’s home and threatening officers outside — “If they breach, I’m a f—-ing blow it to holy hell!” — before finally surrendering.

https://twitter.com/SecretSunBlog/status/1600354676104273920

https://twitter.com/oneunderscore__/status/1600339747821735937

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/07/world/europe/germany-coup-arrests.html

Germany Arrests Dozens Suspected of Planning to Overthrow Government

Many of those detained had military training and were believed to belong to a recently formed group that operated on the conviction that the country was ruled by a “deep state.”

Many of those detained had military training and were believed to belong to a recently formed group that operated on the conviction that the country was ruled by a “deep state.”

By Melissa Eddy and Erika Solomon

Dec. 7, 2022

BERLIN — Special Forces in Germany have arrested 25 people suspected of supporting a domestic terrorist organization that planned to overthrow the government and form its own state, the federal prosecutor said on Wednesday.

In early-morning raids carried out across the country, some 3,000 police and Special Forces officers detained people believed to be members and supporters of the group, which prosecutors said had been formed in the past year and was operating on the conviction that “Germany is currently ruled by members of a so-called deep state” that needed to be overthrown. Prosecutors said that two other people had been arrested outside Germany, one in Austria and another in Italy.

Among those detained were a member of the far-right Alternative for Germany party who had served in the German Parliament, a member of the German nobility and a Russian citizen accused of supporting the group’s plans. Federal prosecutors said that they were investigating a total of 52 suspects.

The group’s plans included an armed attack on the German Parliament building, known as the Reichstag, the prosecutors said, and members had organized arms training and attempted to recruit personnel from the German security services. The prosecutors added that the group’s members had also formed a sort of shadow government that they intended to install if their plans were successful. It remains unclear, however, how close they were to acting on those ambitions.

The prosecutors described the group, which they did not identify, as being influenced by the ideologies of the conspiracy group QAnon and a right-wing German conspiracy group called the Reichsbürger, or Citizens of the Reich, which believes that Germany’s post-World War II republic is not a sovereign country but a corporation set up by the victorious Allies.

>>17901590

Many of those arrested had military training and included former German soldiers, including from the army of the former East Germany, and were known to have been heavily armed with weapons acquired illegally. The group was most likely formed in late 2021, the prosecutors said.

Its aim was “to overcome the existing state order in Germany and to establish its own form of state, the outlines of which have already been worked out,” the prosecutors said in the statement.

“The members of the organization were aware that this goal can only be achieved through the use of military means and violence against state representatives,” the statement added. “This also included commissioning killings.”

Among those arrested was a man who had tried to make contact with representatives of the Russian government over the plans, according to the statement, though there were no indications that they had received a positive response from the Russian sources they had contacted.

German news media widely identified the man as Prince Heinrich XIII of Reuss, a descendant of a former German royal family. The Reuss family has long distanced itself from Heinrich XIII because of his involvement in the Reichsbürger scene.

Another of those detained, identified by prosecutors as Birgit M.-W., was suspected of being appointed to head the justice arm of the group. German media identified her as Birgit Malsack-Winkemann, a judge in Berlin and member of Alternative for Germany. She served as member of Parliament from 2017 to 2021.

A Russian citizen, whom the prosecutors identified as “Vitalia B.,” was “strongly suspected” of supporting Heinrich XIII in trying to establish contacts with Moscow.

The group, which included people who had taken part in demonstrations against coronavirus lockdowns, was fueled by conspiracy theories, the authorities said.

According to the members of the group, liberation is promised by the imminent intervention of the “Alliance,” a technically superior secret coalition of governments, intelligence services and militaries of various states, including Russia and the United States, according to the prosecutors.

Germany’s intelligence services have for years said that the greatest threat to the country came from domestic, far-right extremist groups.

Right-wing extremists in 2019 killed a local politician in the German state of Hessen, and in the same year attempted to attack a synagogue.

Security analysts have warned about the potential for far-right groups to merge with pandemic anti-vaccine conspiracists. In 2020, far-right supporters, Q-Anon backers and anti-vaccine activists at a protest against coronavirus measures in Berlin attempted to storm the Reichstag.

The police say that they have also investigated several smaller suspected plots against state leaders in the past year.

In April, officers arrested four people who had been plotting to kidnap the health minister, Karl Lauterbach, and cause nationwide power outages. The police said that the suspects were linked to the Reichsbürger and anti-vaccine movements.

>>17901591

>Security analysts have warned about the potential for far-right groups to merge with pandemic anti-vaccine conspiracists. In 2020, far-right supporters, Q-Anon backers and anti-vaccine activists at a protest against coronavirus measures in Berlin attempted to storm the Reichstag.

>>17901600

>I guess we are in the news again.

I'm not locked in here with you, you're locked in here with me!

>>17901664

https://www.nytimes.com/2001/08/07/science/researchers-debate-human-cloning.html

Researchers Debate Human Cloning

Aug. 7, 2001

A fertility doctor, a chemist and a scientist-entrepreneur vowed today to press ahead with separate efforts to create the first cloned human being, despite warnings from leading experts that the experiments would inevitably lead to babies that are deformed, or die soon after birth.

"Be aware that this will be done," declared the chemist, Dr. Brigitte Boisselier, who directs a company in the Bahamas and is a member of a fringe religious sect, the Raelians, for whom human cloning is a goal.

The entrepreneur, Dr. Panayiotis Zavos, who runs laboratories in Kentucky, said, "The patients are willing to accept these risks." Drs. Boisselier and Zavos made their remarks at all-day symposium convened by the National Academy of Sciences, an independent research organization that has convened a panel of experts to study the science of cloning. They were joined by Dr. Severino Antinori, an Italian fertility specialist who gained notoriety in the mid-1990's by using in vitro fertilization to help a 62-year-old woman have a baby.

Because all three operate in secret, it is difficult to assess how serious they are or whether their assertions are realistic; of the three, only Dr. Boisselier hinted that she has attempted human cloning, but then stopped short of saying she had done so.

Nonetheless, scientists in attendance here were clearly disturbed by the trio's remarks.

"I think they are serious," said Dr. Alan Colman, director of PPL Therapeutics, a biotechnology company that collaborated in the creation of Dolly the sheep, the world's first and most famous clone of an adult mammal. "I think they will fail, but one of the problems about the fact that they do it all in private is that we won't hear about the failures."

The comments of the cloning proponents, coming just one week after the House of Representatives voted to ban cloning even for medical research, will undoubtedly inflame the debate over the wisdom of creating babies that are genetic replicas of adults. But while the House debate focused on the ethics and morality of cloning, today's discussion focused almost exclusively on science.

And the consensus among the panel and those who testified before it was that cloning people is simply not safe, given that the vast majority of attempts to clone animals end in failure, and that in the few efforts that succeed the resulting clones are plagued with genetic problems.

"We are seeing a great range of abnormalities," said Dr. Ian Wilmut, who as director of the Roslin Institute in Scotland led the effort to clone Dolly. He added: "We should expect a similar outcome if people attempt to produce a cloned human."

>>17901689

Dolly's birth was announced in 1997. In the years since, scientists have succeeded in cloning five species of mammals: sheep, goats, pigs, mice, and cows. But cloning attempts often fail to produce offspring, and even when they succeed there is a high percentage of deaths.

Dr. Wilmut said 18 percent of cloned mice die; among goats, the figure is 38 percent. Those dire numbers, however, did not appear to deter the proponents of human cloning. All three said they would like to use cloning to help infertile couples who cannot conceive in any other way, although Dr. Boisselier went one step further, arguing cloning is a basic human right.

"It is our own choice to use our genes the way we want," she said. As to the safety, they said they would simply screen embryos for genetic abnormalities; animal cloning experts countered that there is no way to test a cloned embryo in advance to predict whether it will result in a healthy birth.

When Dr. Boisselier claimed to have devised such a test, Dr. Alan Trounson, an Australian embryologist, dismissed her assertion as "ludicrous," adding, "I don't think that is at all possible."

Gatherings at the National Academy of Sciences, a prestigious body that advises Congress on scientific matters, are usually a staid affair. But today's seminar was more like a circus than an academic gathering; at one point, a horde of television cameras even followed Dr. Antinori to the bathroom.

On stage, the debate was passionate. When Dr. Mark Siegler, a professor of medicine at the University of Chicago, asked Dr. Zavos what it would take to dissuade him from cloning a person, Dr. Zavos replied that "If we cannot do it right, we will not do it." Dr. Siegler complained he was not satisfied with that answer. "Well," Dr. Zavos said angrily, "that's all you're going to get."

Some in attendance complained privately that the scientific academy had given the proponents of human cloning a forum they did not deserve. But Dr. Irving L. Weissman, a professor of cancer biology at Stanford University and the chair of the expert panel, suggested the invitation served as a warning of sorts.

"This was one way to inform them of the animal science," he said. "Now they're informed." Although cloning for reproduction is today legal in the United States, the Food and Drug Administration has asserted it has jurisdiction over human cloning experiments, and has extracted a written agreement from at least one scientist, Dr. Boisselier, not to pursue them.

But Dr. Boisselier said today she is establishing a laboratory overseas, in a country she would not name. And R. Alta Charo, a professor of law and bioethics at the University of Wisconsin, told the panel that cloning attempts will go on someplace, regardless of whether the United States or any other country makes cloning a crime.

"We haven't been able to outlaw human slavery yet," she said, "let alone human cloning."

>>17901689

>Dr. Panayiotis Zavos, who runs laboratories in Kentucky

>Dr. Severino Antinori, an Italian fertility specialist

>Dr. Brigitte Boisselier, who directs a company in the Bahamas

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panayiotis_Zavos

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Severino_Antinori

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brigitte_Boisselier

https://twitter.com/oneunderscore__/status/1600296445344636929

The homepage of the "brother site" tied to the Colorado Springs shooter features an ode to mass shooters, and recommends white supremacist terrorists hit "soft targets."

It recommends "trolling" with mass shootings, and cites 4chan/8kun livestreamed mass murders.

https://twitter.com/jack/status/1600469184755822597

If the goal is transparency to build trust, why not just release everything without filter and let people judge for themselves? Including all discussions around current and future actions? Make everything public now. #TwitterFiles

https://twitter.com/AliVelshi/status/1599453282161696768

Teams that perform content moderation have been driven off Twitter, says @BrandyZadrozny. “White nationalists are allowed and welcomed back."

The impact can already be seen. Under Elon Musk, trending topics have included names of neo-Nazis & terms like "swastika." #velshi

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WpmGo3Skz74

Sex Education from Childhood

Oct 27, 2021

On November 20, International Rights of Children Day, Rael, spiritual leader of the Raelian Movement, will launch the first Sex Education Day to promote early sexual education of children as recommended by experts in the 2009 UNESCO report on early sex education, according to a statement released today by the International Raelian Movement (IRM).

“Rael has repeatedly expressed his support for the unabridged UNESCO report,” said Clemence Linard, Raelian Guide and spokesperson for Sex Education Day. He was disappointed when the original UNESCO report, based on more than 80 scientific studies, was heavily edited and toned down. Unfortunately, there was active lobbying against the unabridged report by organizations like FamilyWatch that have strong ties to Christian churches.”

An important tenet of Raelian philosophy stresses the importance of removing guilt associated with sexual pleasure.

“Experts on sexual education also recognize the importance of removing such guilt, and only they should decide what content will contribute best to children’s healthy development at the right age and for the rest of their lives,” Linard said. “Parents’ religious beliefs should no more interfere with the content of sexual education than they do with the content of math education."

The IRM is planning worldwide actions to promote UNESCO’s 2009 sex education guidelines (see http://www.rael.org/request.php?386), according to Linard.

“We’re requesting that the original UNESCO report be re-edited,” she said. “The unabridged version recommended explaining masturbation to children at age 5 to 8, and we want that recommendation and others reinserted.”

“This scientific, accurate [UNESCO 2009] report expresses the exact values taught by the Raelian Movement philosophy,” Rael said in an earlier IRM statement. “These wonderful, scientific recommendations are perfectly in line with the Raelian teachings as shared by the [extraterrestrial] scientists who created us.”

www.rael.org/SexEdDay

https://www.facebook.com/SxEdDay/

>>17901742

>Ukraine's Zelensky named TIME Person of the Year.

>>17901739

>www.rael.org/SexEdDay

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yT9jnmra3bk

SexEd Day: For a Sex Education from childhood, including masturbation/self-pleasuring information

Nov 20, 2021

November 20 is World Children's Day ! Let's celebrate the 7th annual Sex Education Day to promote early sex education as recommended by experts in the 2009 UNESCO report.

"Comprehensive Sex Education (CSE), as defined in the report, is exactly what international spiritual leader, Rael, has been advocating and teaching for more than 45 years. The goal is to give children and adolescents a sex education and tools that are adapted to their age and culture, and that emphasize pleasure, fulfillment and well-being in terms of sexual health as defined by the WHO" Clemence Linard, M.A., sexologist and spokesperson for SexEd Day.

Children are particularly vulnerable when kept in the dark about their sexuality and early sex education, according to the Raelian philosophy, must also include acknowledging the importance of pleasure while removing guilt and shame associated with sexual pleasure.

“Those who oppose the sex education program that is based on science, are simply conditioned to sexual guilt by their medieval Christian upbringing. They say they are opposed to the so-called 'sexualization' of children… Wake up dinosaurs! Children are sexual from birth and even before! Sexuality education simply allows them to avoid developing guilt about their own sexuality,” Rael said.

“Comprehensive Sex Education teaches the youth that sexuality is a normal and healthy part of human life that can allow them to make more informed decisions later in life. This includes information on masturbation/self-pleasuring from childhood to simply understand how their body works and that self-stimulation is normal and healthy” emphasized Clemence Linard.

In 2009, following pressure from Christian lobbyists, UNESCO censored one of their reports that talked about teaching masturbation from age 5. For the past twelve years, we have been campaigning to have this language reinstated in the UNESCO report, but no change yet. It is absolutely outrageous for a scientific report to be censored as a consequence of backward religious pressures.

If we cannot work towards normalizing sex-positive messages about masturbation to reduce associated feelings of shame, guilt and fear, as well as improve the overall sexual health and literacy in children, this will undoubtedly negatively impact their physical and mental well-being in the long term.

www.rael.org/SexEdDay

www.facebook.com/SxEdDay

www.instagram.com/sexedday

anons dealing with the pressure

>>17901805

>QAnon-inspired "Reichsbürger" group

sounds thrilling

https://twitter.com/jack/status/1600202589072605184

>>17901698

>Dr. Brigitte Boisselier, who directs a company in the Bahamas

https://www.dw.com/en/germany-puts-anti-lockdown-querdenker-group-under-observation/a-57360414

Germany puts Querdenker group under observation

German intelligence chiefs have placed parts of the anti-coronavirus lockdown protest movement under observation.

April 28, 2021

https://nypost.com/2020/05/02/inside-disgraced-mogul-peter-nygards-bahamas-playground/

Much of the alleged illegal activity is said to have taken place in and around Nygard’s 150,000-square-foot estate in Lyford Cay, Bahamas, which featured fake volcanos spouting dry ice, a gym on the beach, statues of nudes supposedly modeled on Nygard’s exes, a “disco hut” with cameras under the floors, an underground Mayan-themed cave housing 30 cars and an indoor swimming pool with glass through the middle, which allegedly had dolphins on one side and sharks on the other.

Nygard had almost unlimited power to do what he wanted in the Bahamas, Cronin writes, after bribing officials from the government’s Progressive Liberal Party.

>>17901866

>Why did Nygard have his associated stem cell shop in Ukraine?

full moon today

why would twitter censor this?

https://twitter.com/GooseJersey/status/1598842255938199553

>>17902111

>party leadership needs "fresh blood."

>>17902222

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Joannides

Trump Floats Conspiracy Theory That Ted Cruz’s Dad Linked To Lee Harvey Oswald

August 16, 1963 - Lee Harvey Oswald passing out Fair Play for Cuba leaflets in New Orleans

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11509601/American-Girl-accused-stripping-away-innocence-book-teaches-girls-change-gender.html

American Girl is accused of 'stripping away all innocence' in book that teaches children as young as THREE how to change gender by asking doctors for puberty blockers

A Smart Girl's Guide: Body Image, gives advice to girls as young as three years old on how to change their gender by asking doctors for puberty blockers

A passage in the book advises: 'If you haven't gone through puberty yet, the doctor might offer medicine to delay your body's changes'

It also provides a list of resources for organizations the children can turn to 'if you don't have an adult you trust'

Parents have since slammed the book's contents as 'deceptive and dangerous

The 96-page book - billed as a 'guide' - is marketed to girls aged between three and 12

The book's writer, Mel Hammond, graduated from university in 2014, and lists on her website that some of her 'favorite things are trees, rainbows, and dairy-free ice cream.'