Saturday, 16 May 2020

 Right-wing radicals courted

As the SPIEGEL reports in its latest issue and its cover story today, the so-called cyber-bunker in Traben-Trarbach operated by the Dutch  Sven Olaf Kamphuis was an "El Dorado" for the right-wing extremist groups. 

Right-wing radicals were particularly favoured and courted here. Countless discounts were granted for the right-wing members of the Identitarian Movement.

 
Apparently, Nazi groups felt at home in the concrete walls and accessed the services of the Dutch.

The question now is, did the right-wing rabble finance itself through the countless crimes committed through the cyber-bunker in Traben-Trarbach? Was the cyber-bunker just a hoster or the cooking pot of the digital and political underground?

Traben-Trarbach by Steffen Zahn/flickr

The subculture that formed in the cyber-bunker over time became more and more threatening. The actual background of the bunker has not been clarified until today. Countless drug deals, which ran via so-called marketplaces, similar to eBay or Amazon, have been handled by the Darknet hoster. One of the Dutch operators, Hermann Xennt, denied that he had child porn, weapons and terror on his servers. This fact has already been refuted. It was the proverbial paradise for the illegal shop operators, who for many years did not have to fear any state evil. 
 

The question may be allowed whether the right-wing rabble financed itself from the crimes that thus found their basis in the cyber-bunker, or whether even illegal party financing was sponsored by the services offered by the cyber-bunker from narcotics shops and human trafficking.

 
This gap in the market was certainly of interest to the right-wing. It was an exciting offer for the Identitarian Movement, as they could supply themselves with false papers and countless other illegal gadgets offered in the Darknet shops.  Reality is passing by Hermann Xennt, the operator of the bunker, who denies the fact and who, according to NDR, describes his sheltershelter only as a kind of "safe deposit box" where the employees would have assessed the data.   

And the head of the entire operation - Sven Olaf Kamphuis?

He and his comrades-in-arms dilute the police findings to legal action and compare their hosting activities with the work of Wikileaks. In doing so, they don't tire of spreading trivialising conspiracy theories, allegedly they only came into the sights of the authorities because they once hosted data from Wikileaks. 

The original bunker once stood in Zeeland. After a fire in a rented part of the bunker in 2002, a drug lab was found. The Dutch bunker was then shut down.  

There is also increasing evidence of other such installations in Germany. 

The amount of data from the Traben-Trarbach bunker does not yet seem to have been evaluated enough to give the right-wing scene the ideological "ping of death".

Update May 28, 2020

Twitter and Trump

With the social network Twitter, Trump had a friendship that seemed unbreakable. He was able to slander, lie and hate political opponents as he was pleased. 

While the number of Corona victims in the USA rose to over 100,000, Trump pondered the November election. He is preparing for the inevitable defeat. Nothing else interests the dubious despot in Washington. Thus, in his own Trump cosmos, he found that postal voting can be put on a par with electoral fraud. Trump did not care that there had again been deadly riots against black people in the USA. In Corona, he is not interested in, this money-hungry shopkeeper's soul from the White House is fixated on retaining power at all costs. 

Twitter let Trump's effusion this time with a fact check on the timeline. With the result that Trump was found to be lying. That was right and proper. 

Trump immediately started rumbling and announced that he wanted to regulate Twitter or close it down completely. Then this morning, word came down that he was going to issue a "something" order. A presidential order was being prepared, the White House said. 

Because the exposure of his propaganda lies during the election campaign could be his end. It is assumed that Trump will have Twitter censored in the future or close it down completely. 

With abstruse conspiracy theories on the dubious election victory 

The Americans do not have it easy at the moment. They are not to be envied. The USA is ruled by a president who obviously does not seem to be at the height of his intellectual power. Trump reveals that the US $ means more to him than life. As with any demagogue, it shows that the foundation on which Trump stands is fragile and porous.

For those who have not yet noticed, Donald Trump is becoming increasingly inventive as the election date in the United States approaches. He's a greedy president who puts his profit before the people's. Based on determining questions, he shows his absolute incompetence or dissolves the press conference. 

For months, Donald Trump has been knitting together the legend that the Chinese cultivated a virus in a laboratory that would have caused far fewer deaths in the United States than the experts had predicted.

Trump is opening the economy, a decision that may open the door to thousands of more deaths. Trump wants to make it possible.  In the spirit of "America First"...

Trump, who has proven that human life means nothing to him, is now telling stories about the virus that originated in China. It no longer has anything to do with reality, which he brings in "fake facts". 

According to agency reports, he no longer wants to talk to China's leaders. He had previously called Xi his friend, like so many whom he had perceived as his inner circle of world politics. Trump lies and cheats the American people out of more lives, which he is happy to accept for another election victory. Now he wants the figures for the Corona crisis to be manipulated downwards. He doesn't want the dead to hurt Trump in his campaign. Like any dictator, Trump speaks in superlatives he is not ashamed to name. 

Anyone who observes Donald Trump will, unfortunately, note: Trump has not grasped the virus either intellectually or in its dimension and is now looking for a pleasing scapegoat, which this time he cannot search for in the Democrats, but only in China. His lectures become more and more abstract and stammered as the days go by. Meanwhile, Trump is pawing at the toady lickers of his system, firing critics, pondering the punishment of all those who think differently. Trump escalates the violence against members of society who are unsuitable for him. He has succeeded in turning the USA into a dictatorship tailored to his needs. 

That and the death of thousands are the achievements of the US President and his miserable claqueur.