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🗓️ 21 May 2021
⏱️ 9 minutes
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In the first 5 episodes of Baseless you listen to secret recordings of over 100 white supremacists applying for membership to a violent neo-Nazi hate group called The Base. In this bonus episode you’ll hear the latest about the founder, Rinaldo Nazzro, who roams freely, and the members who have been arrested and are now behind bars or awaiting trial.
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0:00.0 | We were looking for people who had sort of a militant revolutionary mindset. |
0:08.2 | Because that sort of is the underlying mindset behind what we do. |
0:14.7 | We believe the system will collapse, we want it to collapse. |
0:19.5 | And when that happens and shit hits the fan, you know, all hell is going to break loose. |
0:26.4 | Sounds like hate is a podcast series from the Southern Poverty Law Center. |
0:31.5 | We want to build a cadre of trainers across the country. |
0:35.0 | That's the purpose of the base. |
0:48.3 | I'm Geraldine Moriba. And I'm Jamila Paxima. In the first five episodes of bassless, you listen to secret recordings of over 100 white supremacists applying for membership |
0:54.0 | in a violent neo-Nazi hate group called the base. |
1:01.0 | We're looking for guys who are willing to accept a degree of risk and understand that there is a risk. |
1:07.0 | The founder is Rinaldo Nazaro, aka Norman Spear or Roman Wolf. |
1:13.6 | He's an American living in Russia. |
1:17.1 | Yeah, I'm a family man, first or foremost. |
1:22.3 | After the 2020 arrests, he made a surprising reappearance in a 30-minute documentary on Russian state-controlled |
1:31.4 | television. He walked around the city of St. Petersburg with a journalist and played with his |
1:37.9 | children in a park. He even visited a Holocaust exhibit. |
1:50.0 | Not surprisingly, Nazaro denies he's a terrorist or a Russian agent. Starting in December 2020, he released a set of videos in an attempt to reestablish himself |
1:56.0 | as the leader of a new networking group for neo-Nazis. |
2:00.0 | We need to have system collapse. |
2:03.2 | I mean, in my view, the solution needs to be taking and controlling territory to some |
2:10.2 | degree. |
2:12.1 | This latest version of Nazaro's racist mission surf surface after the base started to crumble following the |
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