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#Pizzagate Is 4Chan’s War On The American Counterculture & LGBT People

December 26, 2016 By Kit O'Connell 11 Comments

After Donald Trump’s election, 4chan declared war on queer people and the American counterculture.

4chan is a lawless, unmoderated and completely anonymous online forum that frequently serves as a hub of internet troll culture. 4chan helped to spawn the Anonymous movement when some of 4chan’s users launched an organized trolling campaign against the Church of Scientology in 2008. That movement later became known for its hacktivism against the wealthy and powerful during the Occupy Wall Street movement that began in fall of 2011.

In recent years, however, the board, especially a subsection called /pol/ have come to be dominated by a hyper-conservative, white nationalist movement. The users believe, with an almost religious fervor, that their “meme magic” helped to elect Trump. More sober analysts are worried that 4chan and Reddit are helping to radicalize a generation by turning disaffected young white men into dangerous neo-Nazis.

Since November 8, 4chan has been linked to two seemingly disparate, but ultimately interconnected stories.

Filed Under: Civil Liberties, National News Tagged With: culture, Donald Trump, LGBT, Oakland, Pizzagate

Mining The Earth & Fracking The World: The Warming Oceans

February 10, 2015 By Kate Lanier Leave a Comment

Every week, Kate Lanier assembles the most important global energy and climate news. This week includes:

Worldwide: They’ve got things so bollixed up that, even though it appears global warming has slowed a bit, that’s on Earth’s surface. Deep down in the oceans, the warming trend continues, most markedly in the southern Pacific and Indian Oceans.

Gulf of Mexico: Plans afoot “to enlarge the Flower Garden Banks National Marine Sanctuary from 56 square miles to 280. Yes!

Israel: Illegal sand mining is “a major source of income for organized crime figures, especially … in Israel’s south.” It also erodes coastal areas, thus threatening local wildlife. Five arrests so far this year; 20 last year.

Filed Under: Environment, Foreign Affairs, National News Tagged With: #NoKXL, activism, Alaska, Alberta, Algeria, Arctic, biomass, BP, Brazil, California, Canada, Charlie Hebdo, China, Climate change, Congo, Democratic Republic of Congo, electricity, energy, Environmental Protection Agency, EPA, FBI, Flower Garden Banks National Marine Sanctuary, fracked gas, Fracked Oil, fracking, France, global warming, Gulf of Mexico, hydraulic fracturing, Iceland, Idaho, India, Indiana, Israel, Jerry Brown, Keystone XL, Keystone XL North, KeystoneXL, Louisiana, Lousiana, Maryland, mining, Nebraska, Nevada, New York, nuclear, Oakland, oceans, Ohio, oil trains, Oklahoma, Oregon, Panama, Pennsylvania, Petrobas, Philadelphia, renewable energy, Royal Dutch Shell, Saudi Arabia, strike, strikes, surveillance, sustainability, sustainable energy, Tar sands, tarsands, Texas, Turkey, union, unions, United Steelworkers, United Steelworkers Union, Washington, water, West Virginia, Wisconsin, Yucca Mountain

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