Monday, December 07, 2009

Guess who's coming to the tea party?

A Confluence thread directs our attention to this bizarre story, which Dakinkat appropriately labels "malinformation": Obama Orders 1 Million US Troops to Prepare for Civil War.
Russian Military Analysts are reporting to Prime Minister Putin that US President Barack Obama has issued orders to his Northern Command’s (USNORTHCOM) top leader, US Air Force General Gene Renuart, to “begin immediately” increasing his military forces to 1 million troops by January 30, 2010, in what these reports warn is an expected outbreak of civil war within the United States before the end of winter.
Although Renuart is indeed the head of the Northern Command -- which, since 2002, has held the job of combating insurrection -- I think that we may safely assume that this piece is a hoax.

I'm interested in the publication carrying this tale, the "European Union Times." I've never heard of this thing before, and Wikipedia is no help. Does anyone out there have any background info? Who is behind this enterprise?

One of their categories for reportage is "White extinction." And an EU Times article on internet anonymity carries this subhead: "In times of Internet spying, White Nationalists must become Anonymous!" These is the kind of lingo one would associate with an American neo-Nazi organization. It is a little alarming to see these sentiments ascribed to what is clearly meant to look, at first glance, like a quasi-official EU publication.

This rather fetid cyber-rag, displaying distinctly anti-American loyalties, appears to have close ties to the teabagger movement -- which, in turn, seems to be a gathering force within the Republican party. So I would suggest keeping an eye on these creeps.

5 comments:

AR said...

DowneastDem who posts at Daily Kos recently posted about his hobby of monitoring German language neo-Nazi websites, which he says are hosted in the US (because they are illegal in Germany). He may be able to track down the source of this story. He also has his own website Dialog International.

http://dailykos.com/user/DowneastDem
http://www.dialoginternational.com/

MrMike said...

First thought was Washington Times when I read that at TC.

Anonymous said...

You are giving tea baggers a bad name and a bad rep. We aren't all members of the lunatic fringe.

Anonymous said...

Two of your links are being blocked. Maybe you can include them in your article so we don't have to worry about getting them.

Plus it may be best to accept that there are other things happening and not to dismiss anything at this time. Maybe there is something you need to know.

Marty Didier
Northbrook, IL

Anonymous said...

American and European Neo-Nazis and Muslim Brotherhood were behind 9/11. Time that gets general publication and America starts dealing with the Neo-Nazi side of that equation.