All posts tagged: Nazi

Why invest in fundamental research? A former Nazi explains

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[ad_1] Sign up for the Starts With a Bang newsletter Travel the universe with Dr. Ethan Siegel as he answers the biggest questions of all Notice: JavaScript is required for this content. Here in today’s modern world, it may not seem like investing in basic, fundamental research is a necessity anymore. Instead, our society focuses much more on technological and engineering applications of already-known science. Technologies such as artificial intelligence and machine learning, powerful rockets and satellite internet, and pharmaceutical medications seem to generate much more interest — from both public and private funding sources — than fundamental research into the nature of space, matter, life, or disease. Instead of focusing resources into new, cutting-edge science facilities, the scientific leader of the free world for many decades, the United States, is slashing government spending in vital areas, including for basic, fundamental research. Some will argue that we have better, more important, and more urgent tasks to fund than something that leads to long-term benefits like science. Others will point to instances where science drew incorrect …

Comedian Bill Burr slams ‘idiot’ Elon Musk, says he’s ‘evidently a Nazi’

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[ad_1] Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter for all the latest entertainment news and reviews Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter Comedian Bill Burr has blasted “idiot” Elon Musk, branding the tech tycoon an “evident Nazi.” Appearing on the latest episode of NPR’s Fresh Air podcast to promote his new Hulu comedy special, Drop Dead Years, the 56-year-old comedian explained that his current stand-up material is intended to wake people up to the realities of the current political atmosphere. “I’m trying to get regular people to stop yelling at each other and realize that it’s a select few group of nerds eating raw almonds and doing their stupid workouts and competing with each other to have the biggest infinity pool, and the rest of us are getting pushed down,” Burr said. “They’ve politicized the whole stupid thing and we’re falling for it.” Asked to clarify what almond-eating nerds he was referring to, he responded: “That idiot Elon Musk, who evidently is a Nazi.” “I just refuse …

Nazi salutes and anti-Semitism under investigation at French universities

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[ad_1] The first provocation took place on January 30 at the Sciences Po Lille university in northern France, during a mock session of the Assemblée Nationale on real equality, organized by the Le Parlement des Etudiants organization. The debate quickly became “heated, to the point of insults such as ‘cunt’,” said one student (who wishes to remain anonymous). The session was then suspended and “the organization asked the insulting students to leave.” At this point, two of the students concerned, from the most right-wing group in the mock parliament, made Nazi salutes. The very next day, Etienne Peyrat, director of Sciences Po Lille, launched an internal investigation, and the two students were quickly identified. They came from “ESPOL [European School of Political and Social Science],” said Peyrat. “We therefore decided, together with the director of ESPOL, to press charges against both of them for the promotion of war crimes and crimes against humanity, as a moral, political and civic obligation.” The investigation is ongoing. When contacted, the Lille prosecutor did not respond to our request …

Elon Musk’s Grok AI Analyzes His Nazi Salute

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[ad_1] Et tu, Grok? Bot Stabber Somehow, there’s still a debate going as to whether Elon Musk performed not one but two Nazi salutes at Donald Trump’s post-inauguration celebration: one at the crowd, and then seconds later, one at the flag. Maybe Musk just made an “awkward gesture in a moment of enthusiasm” — two of them, back-to-back — or maybe he’s just being taken out of context. In this age of confusion, who could say for sure? So, to settle it once and for all, why not turn to Musk’s very own “maximum truth-seeking AI,” Grok? Asked to answer in one word the ideology it would most closely relate to Musk’s onstage gesture, Grok didn’t hesitate. “Fascism,” the AI chatbot replied. Even in a lengthier conversation, Grok comes to the same conclusion. Betrayal! Our point isn’t that Grok, or any AI model, is an unerring arbiter of truth — it’s obviously not. But the chatbot’s response is incredibly ironic, given that Musk has raised billions of dollars to create it as an “anti-woke” alternative …

Did Elon Musk Really Just Do a Nazi Salute?

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[ad_1] Elon Musk either had a slipped-mask moment or is supremely awkward. Illustration by The Atlantic. Source: Angela Weiss / AFP / Getty. January 20, 2025, 9:09 PM ET Did Elon Musk actually toss off a Sieg heil! at Donald Trump’s inauguration rally today? A lot of people online seem to think he did, based on data from their eyeballs. Freeze-frame images of Musk on social media show the world’s richest man at a podium in Washington, D.C.’s Capital One Arena engaging in what could definitely be construed as a Nazi salute. Video clips of Musk’s speech support this conclusion. Musk stands at the podium, graced with the presidential seal, and thanks the crowd. Then he forcefully slaps his right hand to his chest and rather violently extends his arm outward diagonally to the audience. Multiple historians have backed the idea that Musk’s gesture was indeed a Nazi salute. “Thank you,” Musk says. He makes the gesture to the crowd, turns 180 degrees, and repeats it to the rest of the crowd behind him. “My …

Did Nazi leaders perform ritual human sacrifices? – OpentheWord.org

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[ad_1] Left to Right: Adolf Hitler, Martin Bormann, Göring and Baldur von Schirach in Obersalzberg in 1936 Credit: Bundesarchiv, B 145 Bild-F051620-0043, Wikipedia, CC-BY-SA 3.0 It has long been known that the leaders of the Nazis were involved in the occult. However, a recent discovery beneath the headquarter-complex of German Luftwaffe commander, Hermann Goring, may have uncovered an even darker connection to the satanic realm. It is a connection that would explain the Nazi’s dark hatred for the Jews, which resulted in the extermination of over six million in concentration camps during World War II. Beneath the floor of Goring’s headquarters in Poland, known as the Wolfe’s Lair, researchers with the Lateba Foundation discovered five bodies of young people, including one child, on February 24, 2024. In his article for News.com.au, Jamie Siedel discusses the grisly find and the evidence that the five may have been part of a satanic ritual human sacrifice conducted by the former Nazi leader: His chief propagandist, Heinrich Himmler, built a temple to the Atlantean-Ultima Thule cult. He also designed …

From the Nazi Party to the Reichstag

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[ad_1]   By the time Hitler was 30, his life had led him in many different directions. From an aspiring artist to being poverty stricken and living on the streets of Vienna, his had been a life of hardship.   During the First World War, his fortunes changed, and he made a name for himself as a capable soldier. The end of the war and Germany’s defeat churned political unrest in the nation and set the stage for a dynamic that would thrust an unknown but passionate and angry man into his first position of power.   A succession of events led to the perfect storm for Hitler and the rise of Nazism. In July 1919, in the city of Munich, Hitler took his first step in the direction that would catapult him to power.   Hitler’s Rise in the German Workers’ Party (Deutsche Arbeiterpartei, DAP) A photo of Hitler surrounded by Nazi officials. The photo is signed by Anton Drexler, who appears in the rear, center of the image. Source: sjsmilitaria.com   Before the …

Canaletto painting returns to Wales 80 years after mine protected it from Nazi wartime bombing in London | UK News

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[ad_1] A painting will return to Wales 80 years after it was hidden in a mine to protect it from bombing. The Stonemason’s Yard, a piece by the artist Canaletto, will be on display at the National Library of Wales in Aberystwyth from Friday, as part of the National Gallery’s 200th anniversary. The exhibition tells the story of how the painting came to Wales as a “refugee” to protect it from Nazi air raids on London during the Second World War. It was kept intact at the cavernous Manod slate mines, near Blaenau Ffestiniog in Gwynedd, and then returned to the UK’s capital after the risk of attacks was over. The Italian painter lived from 1697 to 1768 and this particular work is believed to have been painted in about 1725. Twelve pieces of the National Gallery’s collection will be on display at museums and art galleries across the UK. The Idyll and Industry exhibition in Wales will also include works by the likes of Richard Wilson, JMW Turner and Penry Williams. Image: Paintings were …

Attacks on German politicians stir memories of Nazi past – POLITICO

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[ad_1] Last week, Matthias Ecke, a politician with the center-left Social Democratic Party (SPD) and member of European Parliament, was hanging campaign posters for the upcoming European Union election in the eastern German city of Dresden when he was allegedly approached by a group of four young men and pummeled. Ecke suffered fractures to his cheekbone and eye socket, among other injuries, and was hospitalized. In the same part of Dresden that evening, the group of youths also allegedly attacked a Greens campaigner. One of the attackers punched him twice in the face, and after the victim fell to the ground, the attackers repeatedly kicked him, according to witnesses. EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT ELECTION POLL OF POLLS For more polling data from across Europe visit POLITICO Poll of Polls. This past Tuesday evening in Dresden, local Greens candidate Yvonne Mosler was out with a television crew putting up campaign posters when a man pushed her aside, ripped down the posters, and a young woman spat on her. Additional attacks this week — including one on the former mayor …