#Joe Mulhall

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Joe Mulhall, senior researcher at the British anti-racism organisation Hope Not Hate, believes that the far-reaching effects of global warming will have a serious effect on political extremism in the years to come.

"Going Dark: The Secret Social Lives of Extremists" - Julia Ebner

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Patrik Hermansson, David Lawrence, Joe Mulhall ve Simon Murdoch – Uluslararası Alternatif Sağ (2021)

Alternatif Sağ’ın (alt-right olarak kısaltılıyor) bir grup internet bağımlısı ergenin kendi aralarında eğleşmesi olmadığı Charlottesville’deki (Virginia/ABD) “Sağı Birleştir” mitingi sırasında ırkçılık karşıtı gruptan bir eylemcinin arabayla ezilerek öldürülmesiyle ortaya çıkmıştı. O günden sonra bu gruptakilerin hangi ideolojik yönelimlere sahip olduğu, nasıl bir toplumsal grubu temsil ettiği ve…

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On Friday, November 4, Sennett underwent urological surgery and was reportedly recovering. However, that morning — at 2:42 A.M. PST on November 5, 1960 — Mack Sennett died from a heart attack.

A recitation of the Rosary was held at 8 P.M. on November 7, at the Blessed Sacrament Church on Sunset Boulevard, followed by Requiem Mass at 10 A.M. on Tuesday, November 8, at the same church, with Sennett's friend Rev. Harold Ring presiding.

Pallbearers included

Chester Conklin, Tom Kennedy, Grover Ligon

George Gray, Glen Cavender,

Del Lord, Eddie Gribbon

and Sennett's secretary, Joe Madison(no picture).

Others in attendance included

Jack Mulhall, Sol Lesser,

James Kirkwood, Norman Z. McLeod,

Sally Eilers, Louise Fazenda, Dorothy Granger,

members of the Watson clan,

William Demarest, Eddie Quillan and Billy Gilbert

of Keystone/Sennett pedigree.

-Walker, B.E., 2010, Mack Sennett's Fun Factory, McFarland&Company, Inc., Publishers, pp. 240~41

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About 150 people carrying St George’s Cross flags, shouting “you’re not English any more” and “paedo Muslims off our street”, were greatly outnumbered in Leeds by hundreds of counter-protesters shouting “Nazi scum off our streets”. Skirmishes broke out between demonstrators and punks – in town for a festival – in Blackpool, with bottles and chairs thrown.

In Bristol, police kept protesters and counter protesters apart before a group headed to a hotel used to house asylum seekers.

The need for urgent political intervention was stressed by the government’s independent adviser on political violence and disruption, Lord Walney, who told the Observer that new emergency powers may be needed. “The system isn’t set up to deal with this rolling rabble-rousing being fuelled by far-right actors,” he said.

“I think home office ministers may want to look urgently at a new emergency framework – perhaps temporary in nature – that enables police to use the full powers of arrest to prevent people gathering where there is clear intent to fuel violent disorder.”

Keir Starmer held a meeting of senior ministers on Saturday in which he said police had been given full support to tackle extremists who were attempting “to sow hate by intimidating communities”. He made clear that the right to freedom of expression and the violent scenes over recent days were “two very different things”.

Last week’s riots followed the killing of three young girls at a Taylor Swift-themed dance class in Southport on Monday. Axel Rudakubana, 17, from Lancashire, is accused of the attack, but false claims were spread online that the suspect was an asylum seeker who had arrived in the UK by boat. In the wake of these messages, far-right protesters – guided by social media – gathered in cities across the country.

A key factor in this spread of online disinformation involved Elon Musk’s decision to allow rightwing activists such as Tommy Robinson back onto his social media platform X, said Joe Mulhall, director of research at Hope not Hate, the anti-fascism organisation. “The initial disinformation and anger was being perpetrated by individuals on Twitter, for example, that have been previously deplatformed,” he said. “And now they’ve been replatformed.”

Robinson was permanently banned from the platform (then called Twitter) in March 2018, then reinstated in November last year, after Musk bought it. “We hadn’t seen any significant numbers at any demonstrations since 2018,” Mulhall added.

An example of the danger posed by the misuse of social media was revealed in Stoke-on-Trent, where police were forced to deny there had been a stabbing, countering claims made on social media. “There is growing speculation that a stabbing has taken place as a result of the disorder today. We can confirm this information is false and no stabbings have been reported to police or emergency responders, despite videos fuelling speculation on social media,” police said.

The danger of such intervention was stressed by Ben-Julian “BJ” Harrington, the National Police Chiefs Council lead for public order, who condemned social media disinformation as a cause of last week’s disorder.

He said: “We had reports today that two people had been stabbed by Muslims in Stoke – it’s just not true. There’s people out there, not even in this country, circulating and stoking up hatred, division and concerns in communities that they don’t care about, don’t know and don’t understand.”

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In 2023, the network now known as X began sharing ad revenues with its “premium” users, and I joined Threads (which is owned by Meta), but all I ever see on it is strangers confessing to boring misdemeanours. I remained on X, where everything got darker. People get paid, indirectly through advertising, for engagement. Even that is a bit murky, since it’s described as “revenue sharing”, but you don’t get to see which ads’ revenues were shared with you, so can’t measure revenue-per-impression. Is X sharing it 50/50? Or 10/90? Are they actually paying you to generate hatred? “What we’ve seen,” says Ed Saperia, dean of the London College of Political Technology, “is controversial content drives engagement. Extreme content drives engagement.” Creating toxic content became a viable livelihood, which my 16-year-old, on football X, noticed way before I did: people saying patently wrong things for hate-clicks. You might get a couple of thousand likes for noticing that David Cameron looks like Catherine the Great, but that’s nothing like the engagement you’ll get for attacking trans people, say. Those high-attention tweets go straight to the top of the For You feed, driven by a “black box algorithm designed to keep you scrolling”, as Rose Wang, COO of another rival, Bluesky, puts it, but the user experience is screeds of repetition on topics tailored to annoy you. As a result of these changes, says Joe Mulhall, head of research at Hope Not Hate, “the platform has been flooded by individuals who were previously de-platformed, ranging from extreme niche accounts to figures like Tommy Robinson and Andrew Tate”. We saw the real-life effects of this when misinformation over the identity, ethnicity and faith of the killer of three young girls in Southport incited explicitly racist unrest across the UK this August, such as hasn’t been seen since the 70s. X, Mulhall says, “was a central hub not only for creating the climate for the riots, but also the organisation and distribution of content that led to riots”.After the race riots in August it transpired that one man, “keyboard warrior” Wayne O’Rourke, convicted for inciting racial hatred on social media, was earning £1,400 a month from his activities on X. The blowhard Laurence Fox declared last month that he earns a similar amount from posting on X. O’Rourke had 90,000 followers; Tommy Robinson has more than a million, and it’s likely that he’s making far more.

Racism, misogyny, lies: how did X become so full of hatred? And is it ethical to keep using it? | X | The Guardian

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““What we’ve seen,” says Ed Saperia, dean of the London College of Political Technology, “is controversial content drives engagement. Extreme content drives engagement.” Creating toxic content became a viable livelihood, which my 16-year-old, on football X, noticed way before I did: people saying patently wrong things for hate-clicks. You might get a couple of thousand likes for noticing that David Cameron looks like Catherine the Great, but that’s nothing like the engagement you’ll get for attacking trans people, say. Those high-attention tweets go straight to the top of the For You feed, driven by a “black box algorithm designed to keep you scrolling”, as Rose Wang, COO of another rival, Bluesky, puts it, but the user experience is screeds of repetition on topics tailored to annoy you.

As a result of these changes, says Joe Mulhall, head of research at Hope Not Hate, “the platform has been flooded by individuals who were previously de-platformed, ranging from extreme niche accounts to figures like Tommy Robinson and Andrew Tate”. We saw the real-life effects of this when misinformation over the identity, ethnicity and faith of the killer of three young girls in Southport incited explicitly racist unrest across the UK this August, such as hasn’t been seen since the 70s. X, Mulhall says, “was a central hub not only for creating the climate for the riots, but also the organisation and distribution of content that led to riots”.

After the race riots in August it transpired that one man, “keyboard warrior” Wayne O’Rourke, convicted for inciting racial hatred on social media, was earning £1,400 a month from his activities on X. The blowhard Laurence Fox declared last month that he earns a similar amount from posting on X. O’Rourke had 90,000 followers; Tommy Robinson has more than a million, and it’s likely that he’s making far more.”

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The resurgence of far-right violence in the UK is in part due to Elon Musk’s decision to allow figures such as Tommy Robinson back on to the social media platform X, researchers say. Robinson, whose real name is Stephen Yaxley-Lennon, and those of his ilk are not leaders in the traditional sense and the far right has no central organisation capable of directing the disorder and violence that has been seen, experts say. Jacob Davey, director of policy and research at the Institute for Strategic Dialogue (ISD), said: “People have been naming the EDL [English Defence League] as key figures when the EDL actually has ceased to function as a movement.” The UK, like other parts of the world, now has “a much more decentralised extreme-right movement,” he said. “There have been known figureheads at protests – including some avowed neo-Nazis – but there’s also this loose network that includes ­concerned local citizens and football hooligans. “All of these people are tied together by these loose online networks, ­activated by deeply cynical influences – many outside the country – and galvanised by viral online disinformation from unknown and untrustworthy sources.” Instead, Robinson, who is believed to have left the country earlier last week before a legal case, and other figures act as “weathermakers”, according to Joe Mulhall, director of research at Hope Not Hate, the anti-fascism organisation. They inspire people to take ad hoc local action, or spread their own misleading or false videos online about issues including migrant boats and child grooming gangs. The killings of three young girls in Southport last week was the spark for continuing violence, fuelled by false claims that the perpetrator was a 17-year-old asylum seeker called “Ali al-Shakati” who had arrived on a boat last year.

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I created this side account primarily to explore the existence of left wing antisemitism. I come from a leftist background and am concerned with a rise in antisemitic tropes and conspiracy theories in response to the actions of the IDF.

When reading the introduction to the Communist Manifesto, I learned that Marx himself was antisemitic. And considering the pogroms against Jews in Russia around the time Socialism took off, I wouldn't be surprised if the movement was influenced by this ambient antisemitism and continues to be.

I picked this name because of an article on Hope Not Hate in which antisemitism is described as not a '“virus” or “poison”. ... [Rather,] it is better understood as “a reservoir of narratives and myths that can be taken as a resource in specific historical and social contexts.”' And the only way to fight this antisemitism is through education and knowledge. I called myself "reservoir of knowledge" because history, empathy, and tolerance of difference is a much better reservoir to draw from than antisemitism.

I've also noticed a rise in antisemitic conspiracy from black twitter, specifically a Kanye West and "Kanye was onto something" brand of antisemitism.

I'm mostly concerned with analyzing the left and antisemitism in general, discussing ideas, and documenting the antisemitism I see.

Someone on here, I forget who, said something along the lines of "the right blames Jews for communism and the left blames Jews for capitalism. Antisemitism seems to be one thing that binds the opposite ends in horseshoe theory."

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Um estudo sobre extremismo na vida pública e na política

O trumpismo e o bolsonarismo, em sua essência , já existiam muito antes das eleições de Donald Trump, nos Estados Unidos  e de Jair Messias Bolsonaro, no Brasil. Esta constatação está implícita no livro Tambores à Distância – viagem ao centro da direita mundial , de Joe Mulhall,  militante da Hope not hate (Esperança, não ódio), conhecida com HNH, organização que tua no Reino Unido contra o…

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8.12.19

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2021 Reading

It is September 2021, and these are all the books that I've read in 2021 so far. My aim was to read 30 new books; between being unemployed for nearly four months, and then getting a decent salary increase in my new job, I've currently read 57 new books, plus about fifteen re-reads. (Oops).

1. Alt-Right: From 4-chan to the White House - Mike Wendling

2. Bullshit Jobs: The Rise of Pointless Work and What We Can Do About It - David Graeber

3. Can the Left Learn To Meme?: Adorno, Video Gaming and Stranger Things - Mike Watson

4. The Dispossessed - Ursula K. Le Guin

5. Seven Devils - Laura Lam and Elizabeth May

6. We Are Bellingcat: An Intelligence Agency for the People - Eliot Higgins

7. The Way of Kings - Brandon Sanderson (pt.2)

8. Invitation to a Bonfire - Adrienne Celt

9. King of Scars - Leigh Bardugo

10. Words of Radiance - Brandon Sanderson (pt.1 & 2)

12. The New Authoritarianism - Salvatore Babones

13. Kill All Normies: Online Culture Wars from 4chan and Tumblr to Trump and the Alt-Right - Angela Nagle

14. How Democracies Die - Daniel Ziblatt & Steven Levitsky

15. In Search of Kazakhstan: The Land That Disappeared - Christopher Robbins

16. After The Fact: The Truth About Fake News - Marcus Gilroy-Ware

17. Six of Crows - Leigh Bardugo

18. Once Upon A River - Diane Setterfield

19. The Far Right Today - Cas Mudde

20. Foucault's Pendulum - Umberto Eco

21. A Revolution Undone: Egypt's Road Beyond Revolt - H.A. Hellyer

22. Our Women on the Ground - Zahra Hankir

23. She Said - Jodi Kantor and Megan Twohey

24. We Need New Stories - Nesrine Malik

25. Celestial Bodies - Jokha Alharthi

26. Crooked Kingdom - Leigh Bardugo

27. Lore - Alexandra Bracken

28. Shadow and Bone - Leigh Bardugo

29. Siege and Storm - Leigh Bardugo

30. Ruin and Rising - Leigh Bardugo

31. Angloarabia: Why Gulf Wealth Matters to Britain - David Wearing

32. Propaganda Blitz - David Edwards and David Cromwell

33. Why Nations Fail - Daron Acemoglu

34. Rule of Wolves - Leigh Bardugo

35. We Hunt The Flame - Hafsah Faizal

36. This Is How They Tell Me The World Ends - Nicole Perlroth

37. Culture Warlords - Talia Lavin

38. Fascism and Dictatorship - Nicos Poulantzas

39. Oathbringer - Brandon Sanderson (pt. 1 & 2)

41. Merchants of Hate - Jack Jardel

42. Vox - Christina Dalcher

43. Lean Out - Dawn Foster

44. Hamnet - Maggie O'Farrell

45. Strange Hate - Keith Kahn-Harris

46. The Fifth Season - N.K. Jemsin

47. The Obelisk Gate - N.K. Jemsin

48. The Doctor Who Fooled The World - Brian Deer

49. Drums in the Distance - Joe Mulhall

50. The Stone Sky - N.K. Jemsin

51. Algorithms of Oppression - Safiya Umoja Noble

52. The Priory of the Orange Tree - Samantha Shannon

53. The Age of Surveillance Capitalism - Shoshanna Zuboff

54. The Cruel Prince - Holly Black

55. The Wrath and the Dawn - Renee Ahdieh

56. The Ballard of Songbirds and Snakes - Suzanne Collins

57. The Three-Body Problem - Liu Cixin

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Universal, 1940.  Directed by Arthur Lubin.  Camera:  Elwood Bredell.  With Boris Karloff, Bela Lugosi, Stanley Ridges, Anne Nagel, Anne Gwynne, Virginia Brissac, Edmund McDonald, Paul Fix, Murray Alper, Jack Mulhall, Joe King, John Kelly, James Craig, Jerry Marlowe, Edward McWade, Eddie Dunn, Emmett Vogan, Edward Earle, Kernan Crips, Edwin Stanley.

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For just $3.99 Released on September 12, 1941: A private eye and his lawyer wife get tangled up in the murder of a judge. Genre: Drama Duration: 1h Director: Bernard B. Ray Actors: June Storey (Phyllis Martindel), Neil Hamilton (Duke Martindel), Douglas Fowley (Police Sergeant Brent), Evelyn Brent (Hester Engle), Greta Granstedt (Leila Bostwick), Malcolm 'Bud' McTaggart (Joe Link), Jack Mulhall (Jones, hotel clerk), John Holland (Guy Kisling), Emmett Vogan (Doctor Grayson), Terry Walker (Annie Lowell), Kenneth Harlan (Detective Dunlap), Carl Stockdale (Judge Leander Harding), John Ince (Police Captain Newton), Jimmy Aubrey (Tiverton Apartment Manager), Sheila Darcy (reporter Helen White), Dick Wessel (Officer Donahue) *** This item will be supplied on a quality disc and will be sent in a sleeve that is designed for posting CD's DVDs *** This item will be sent by 1st class post for quick delivery. Should you not receive your item within 12 working days of making payment, please contact me so we can solve this or any other questions. Note: All my products are either my own work, licensed to me directly or supplied to me under a GPL/GNU License. No Trademarks, copyrights or rules have been violated by this item. This product complies with rules on compilations, international media, and downloadable media. All items are supplied on CD or DVD.

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