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Reading lists, go-to books, Amazon wishes, new on the block editions: MSK and William's recommended books about conspiracy theories ... make perfect Judeo-Christmas non-altruistic gifts! 'Tis the Season (of Reason). From the blurb of Suspicious Minds:

"We’re all conspiracy theorists. Some of us just hide it better than others.

Conspiracy theorists do not wear tin-foil hats (for the most part). They are not just a few kooks lurking on the paranoid fringes of society with bizarre ideas about shape-shifting reptilian aliens running society in secret. They walk among us. They are us. Everyone loves a good conspiracy. Yet conspiracy theories are not a recent invention. And they are not always a harmless curiosity. In Suspicious Minds, Rob Brotherton explores the history and consequences of conspiracism, and delves into the research that offers insights into why so many of us are drawn to implausible, unproven and un-provable conspiracy theories. They resonate with some of our brain’s built-in quirks and foibles, and tap into some of our deepest desires, fears, and assumptions about the world."

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Reading: "Suspicious Minds: Why We Believe Conspiracy Theories"

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I want to recommend a book I just started reading last night: "Suspicious Minds," by Rob Brotherton. As is usual, I read first the chapter that stuck out -- Chapter 5, The Paranoid Fringe. It takes a useful critical look at the seminal article by Richard Hofstadter -- "The Paranoid Style in American Politics" -- and also runs to ground a plausible origin of 'tinfoil hats.' 

The book is written in a wry conversational tone, and is not on the surface a ''scholarly" read thick with endless footnotes, but it also contains a very useful reference list by page number -- as well as a full index at the back.  (My copy is from our local library, but I am going to order it from Amazon so I always have it on hand as a reference book.)

Here is an excerpt from the first page that might whet OLer's appetite for more ...

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In a fit of recursion, I include this bit of commentary from earlier this month. It suggests that I am bound by ingrained prejudice/s, which may or may not be true ... yet leaves the door open to further friendly discussion.

On 10/15/2017 at 1:12 PM, Michael Stuart Kelly said:

For those who still don't know how to process conspiracy theorists, I left the following comment over at William's blog the other day (see here). He didn't agree that it was a valid approach (it's hard to let go of a prejudice once ingrained :) ), but that is the way listening to conspiracy theorists works with people like me. And from the looks of things, it works that way with a shit-ton of people all over America.

-- for those who like to check out reviews before purchasing or borrowing from a library, here's a selection -- which I thought remarkable. Remarkable in the sense of "how many reviews do not mention Donald Trump?"

New York Times review by Adrian Chen
Inside Higher Education review by Scott McLemee
Brief Scientific American review by Maria Temming

-- for the benefit of Dear Leader, I found the book is available at his local library too!

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William, Sure. I went to my orders completed page at Amazon and typed in "conspiracy" just to make this fast. Four books came up, but I have more (I always haunt used book places, too  ). I can't list those right off the bat because I have a crap-load of books and I didn't make a separate section for "conspiracy theory" like I did for Rand, writing, Scientology, evil (a few very interesting books  ), religion, etc. Here are the 4: Conspiracies and Secret Societies: The Complete Do

Conspiracies and Secret Societies: The Complete Dossier by Brad Steiger and Sherry Steiger The Believing Brain: From Ghosts and Gods to Politics and Conspiracies---How We Construct Beliefs and Reinforce Them as Truths by Michael Shermer History Decoded: The 10 Greatest Conspiracies of All Time by Brad Meltzer and Keith Ferrell Demented Agitprop: The Myth and Madness of Agenda 21 Conspiracy Theories by Llewellyn Hinkes-Jones The United States of Paranoia: A Conspiracy Theory by Jesse Walker Voodoo Histories: The Role of the Conspiracy Theory in Shaping Modern History by David Aaronovitch American Conspiracy Theories by Joseph E. Uscinski

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Interesting, if puzzling comment on conspiracy-related notions, from Ellen in the Fake News topic: Name and Shame, brothers and sisters. Name and shame. As Brotherton might say ... "It's not Them, it's Us."  

"I think there is a strong enabler complicity among those who sneer at the very idea of real conspiracies being underway - a kind of informal colluding though not precisely conspiring to protect the elites in the shadows, an unacknowledged desire to assist toward the achievement of goals the sneerer approves of but wouldn't admit to favoring."

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That Standard Hotel, in Schiff’s district, is a child trafficking front. That Schiff is a top customer and long-time protector. And that the owners were murdered, by Schiff, in a helicopter “accident” the other day.

This comment is intriguing ...

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The Schiff news will come soon and it will read similarly to this...   WRITTEN BY BARBARY ALANFEBRUARY 2, 2018 MICHAEL FISHER, HIGH SCHOOL PRINCIPAL THAT COMMITTED SUICIDE, WAS BEING INVESTIGATED FOR ALLEGED SEXUAL ABUSE AND MISCONDUCT https://wildnwoollywordsmith.wordpress.com/2018/02/02/michael-fisher-high-school-principal-that-committed-suicide-was-being-investigated-for-alleged-sexual-abuse-and-misconduct/

Jon Letendre predicts Adam Schiff will committ suicide ...

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Posted by Jon Letendre,

Nice ring. The FBI says it means “boy lover,” William. Not man-boy love. “Boy lover” And she wears one. Facts. Fun or not, William, these are facts.

Jon Letendre highlights a ring -- the design of which is said to be a symbol of 'man-boy' love ... Jon has a low threshold for fun.

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We do get it, you know J, your point, your one and only point these days.  It is only acceptable to be outraged about lies, slurs or disrespect of Trump. or his favoured few at the time.  Everyone else can be trashed and ridiculed - war heroes, Gold Star mothers,ex-presidents, honoured public servants. dead elementary school students and their classmates who mourn them, everyone except Donald J. Trump. They can be lied about and ridiculed but it would be unpatriotic to care about them.They

Outrage Muffins ...

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Youtube viewers who use the service through a Google account will be somewhat familiar with how the page presents 'content' that you might enjoy watching. 

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-- and sometimes it recommends videos from new-to-you accounts ...

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With my interest in conspiracy theories, and my subscription to David Seaman and Styxhexenhammer, Youtube seems to think I want more of similar accounts. 

And, so, courtesy of The Algorithm, one of Jordan Sather's newest videos, which draws together several up-and-coming theories -- about Antarctica, "QAnon,"** #FollowtheWhiteRabbit, the Rothschilds/Soros, and so on.  Feast!

In the video, Sather cites this story, from the UK version of METRO: #FollowTheWhiteRabbit is possibly the craziest conspiracy theory of all time. I've cued up the video to his discussion of the METRO story.

I like the way Sather includes the links to material discussed in his videos; he has 'show notes,' and also as you will see, a whiteboard and an on-screen monitor that reflects what he is talking about. 

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** QAnon: The Storm and The Awakening -- An introduction article into the QAnon posts (from Presidential favourite MAGApill.com)

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QAnon: Down the Rabbit Hole

The Special Counsel is not corrupt. Let me say that again, the special counsel, headed by Mueller, is not running a corrupt investigation. He’s doing the job properly under the guise of investigating the Trump team. This has lowered the guard of the true targets because nobody anticipated it, including the media. There are an unprecedented number of sealed indictments across the nation right now that have not been executed, over 1400 sealed indictments at last glance.

Many high level officials will soon be arrested to actually ‘Drain the Swamp‘ beyond what anyone thought was possible. Once the corruption and the 'type of corruption' is revealed to the American people, it will trigger ‘The Awakening’. This event will be something unlike anything you’ve ever witnessed, Americans will unite behind Trump and his administration for cleaning house.

Even an Atheist knows and must be intelligent enough to know, that Satan worshipers are real, Cults are real and ‘True Evil’ exists. Disinformation is also real. It’s the job of the media and the entertainment industry to keep the public saturated with stimulus designed to keep us blind and distracted. This is where most people ‘tune out’ because it’s too hard for them to swallow. They don’t want to believe that there are people in this world buying children to rape and kill them as sacrifices. It’s tough to stomach but who are we if let this continue, who are we if we choose to turn a blind eye. Evil exists, and it exists at the highest level of the United States government. Don’t be naive and think ‘it can’t happen here’ because I assure you that it is.

The level of importance of this operation equates to a ‘Good vs Evil’ battle that transcends politics. This is a ‘Global Evil’ that attempted to takeover America. Many in our government actively worship Satan, Moloch/Molech and participate Pedophilia, Spirit Cooking, etc. Most Americans are afraid to look this Truth in the eye but True Evil does exist regardless of your religious views. This is not a joke and most definitely not a game. Thousands of Pedophiles and Child Traffickers have been arrested since Trump was sworn in. They are all under heavy investigation, including their funds and their affiliations.

Saudi Arabia, Rothschild and Soros are the puppet masters that fund this Global Evil. For the first time in history, this triangle of funding has lost one of it’s sides and is beginning to collapse. The old Saudi Arabia was funding child trafficking, Hillary Clinton, false flags and various other evil activities. The New Saudi Arabia is just taking form as Saudi Arabia’s King Salman, the same King who honored President Trump during his visit, made an abrupt change in the line of succession. He appointed his younger son Mohammed bin Salman (people call him MBS) as Crown Prince and is reportedly going to step down this week due to dementia, which will make MBS King. As soon as MBS was named Crowned Prince is when ‘The Purge’ in Saudi Arabia began. Hundreds of Officials and other Princes were arrested for corruption charges, many with ties to Clinton, Podesta, Huma, Obama, etc. All of their corrupt dealings and bank records are being investigated. As this unfolds, the paper trail will likely lead to charges here in the United States and could possibly be some of the sealed indictments. MBS has a good relationship with Trump and has vowed to 'Make Saudi Arabia Great Again', less strict and more moderate. Saudi Arabia is now working with Israel (highly unusual) and Trump against Iran, Radical Islam and efforts to defund terrorism.

This is a once in a lifetime opportunity take out this Global Cabal of Satan worshiping pedophiles.

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Duelling conspiracies ...

-- from the story:

International investigators concluded that Russia engaged in a massive conspiracy to help athletes take performance-enhancing drugs in the run-up to the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia.

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Catching up with David Seaman. This is an edited version of his December 6th "live streaming" Youtube video called The Storm Is Here! Interagency Pizzagate DC Raids!?

Seaman is referring to Operation Tin Panda, a series of raids and arrests in northern Virginia and the District of Columbia. In a kind of transmutation, he has grafted a gang-related sweep to the Soros-Clinton-Pizzagate world-wide child sex trafficking cult. Along the way he takes aim at his favourite punching bag this month, Susan Wojcicki of Google/Youtube. 

In the video (starting around 4:00) he smokes a "Caviar" joint, with somewhat interesting results.

The original video was 30 minutes. This version is just over 11 minutes. Enjoy! (the full text of his remarks is to the right, for connoisseurs)

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WASHINGTON (WUSA9) - Hundreds of federal agents and local police rounded up nearly 30 alleged gang-members Wednesday in Woodbridge, Alexandria, Maryland and D.C.

The raids capped months of investigation led by the federal Bureau of  Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Expolosives into drug-dealing, gun-trading and murder by the "Bloods," a notorious gang that started in California.

The US Attorney's Office in Alexandria says agents seized thousands of grams of cocaine, crystal meth, and heroin -- along with more than 70 firearms.

 

-- the names of those arrested and their charges are available for investigators of connections between Operation Tin Panda and the Luciferian Pizzagate plot. 

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[Added:  a slightly different perspective on Operation Tin Panda from the well-organized Jordan Sather, cued up to his remarks.]

 

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On 12/9/2017 at 11:10 AM, william.scherk said:

Catching up with David Seaman.

The latest David Seaman video is a classic. The liberal side of the aisle has been hyperventilating and scratching itself bloody over the notion that President Trump will be firing Robert Mueller in the near future.  The heavy breathing and self-injury is I presume in reaction to media (Fox News) ventilation of Dirty Mueller tropes. 

Here the gusts blow to the effect that Mueller and the whole special counsel investigation is out of control, suffused with bias, corruption, Democrat sleaze and so on. I will see if I can't find the Jeannine Pirro clip in which she ventilates mightily on FBI/DOJ filth and horror. The Jesse Watters guy has also gone wack with the concept 'coup.'

That said, the greater stupid is I think on the liberal side:  there is near zero suggestive evidence from the White House that a special counsel firing is contemplated. 

Anyway, David Seaman has apparently watched a hyperventilating Cenk Uygur on The Young Turks, and is now repeating himself manfully on a new theme. The video is 45 minutes long, so I excerpted the gist from the first few minutes. Misspellings of the automated closed captions are left in as leavening. Genko Ogre, Jack Yager, Jake Eager and Genki Huger  can all be read as Cenk Uygur. To David Seaman's' eyes he is a terrorist.

(I figure the Fox ventilation led to the TYT ventilation, which led to the 'breathe into a bag' attack by one of OL's favourite "watch dogs")

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Genki ogre got his money from a close
associate   of John Podesta this is
treason on US soil
this guy's watched by a lot of   people
  he's watched by a lot of young people on
YouTube and he's advocating violence
this is   terrorism what Jack Yager is
doing is terrorism   right absolute
terrorism this is advocating violence
against Americans what is this folks
  again his criticism his year-long
hysteria against
to   trump that hysteria would be a lot
  more believable if you weren't financed
by a close friend of John Podesta
  we're sick of this stuff   we're sick of
the Holly weirdos look at how many
  people give him thumbs down on   his
videos The Young Turks now it's like   50%
thumbs down we're tired of you
  advocating violence against Trump
supporters   jank we're tired of you
advocating violence   the stock markets
are   up more than 5 trillion dollars the
jobless numbers of the lowest they've
been since the 1970s   and pedophile
Hillary Clinton is not in power nor is
  pedophile John Podesta so what is your
issue Jake eager here's what he tweeted
  out if Donald Trump fires Robert Moeller
  if real Donald Trump fires Robert
Moeller people should go into   the
streets   it should be a Tahrir Square
like uprising so he's   saying it should
be   like Tahrir Square whatever you're
square however you pronounce it unreal
what is this motherfucker talking about
he's calling for an uprising in   the
United States   that's not okay not okay
to use millions of dollars from John
Podesta surrend   to call for an uprising
in the United   States this   is not okay
folks   this is terrorism in my own
country this   man receives millions   of
dollars from   John Podesta's friend so
he's not on   biased right if you get
millions   of dollars from   John Podesta
friend
you're about as compromised as it comes
  I used to like The Young Turks they've
turned into such garbage
Genki huger is advocating violence
against Trump supporters fuck you Jake
many Trump supporters have been   harmed
due   to irresponsible shit like this many
Trump supporters have been harmed   in the
street this year fuck you Jake he's
advocating violence man   this is what he
says
if Trump fires Robert Muller   people
should go   into the streets it should be
a Tahrir Square   like uprising we must
defend our democracy   and the rule of   law
this should be a popular uprising like
we've never   seen anime

With a bit of ambient sound, and text-to-speech rendering, the above seems like poetry:

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On 11/29/2017 at 10:53 AM, william.scherk said:

With my interest in conspiracy theories, and my subscription to David Seaman and Styxhexenhammer, Youtube seems to think I want more of similar accounts. 

And, so, courtesy of The Algorithm, one of Jordan Sather's newest videos, which draws together several up-and-coming theories -- about Antarctica, "QAnon,"** #FollowtheWhiteRabbit, the Rothschilds/Soros, and so on.  Feast!

Fresh fun from young Sather, who has 'broken through' to Infowarts. Sure to be of interest to the "Trump was recruited by murk murky murk" people on OL.

 

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There is nothing wrong with going down the 'rabbithole' and believing six impossible things before breakfast. Or so I am told. 

In this video, Liz Crokin is interviewed by Jordan Sather. You may want to take notes, as the claims come fast ... 

 

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"The Cabal exists."  For those who know sweet fuck-all about the Q-Anon phenomena, here is a backgrounder from young Jordan Sather. For those who have plunged headlong down the rabbit hole, this may add to your feelings of gnosis.  For those who are able to set aside all the basics of Objectivist Epistemology ... this will help you get up to speed and become part of the "Alliance."

Now, for Rabbitholers, the above is arguably legitimate. For those who retain a desire to independently investigate, or hear from the "other side" ... there are a few sites that attempt to explain the cognitive slippage. Here is one: The Storm Is the New Pizzagate — Only Worse.

 

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Q-Anon, NSA, Whistleblowers, Leaf-blowers, Rabbit-hole, Illuminati bloodlines, 'not all RH-Negative people are shape-shifting Reptilians who own central banks,'  Luciferian pedophiles, Cro-Magnon, hybrid species,  uranium, Ancestry.com, 8chan, "lizard bloodlines are not my specialty" ... and more!

 

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Muzzies!


 

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To cleanse the palate, or perhaps to highlight an earlier, nastier milieu at OL, a plea from a member to take a form of directed energy weapons seriously.

I am not happy with how abrupt I was with this person. I do still believe he suffered from a delusional disorder, but unkindness was mixed with kindness, and sympathy for his suffering seemed almost feigned.

One day I will narrate a straightforward tale of how I and some independent researchers tangled with the sad and tormented Diana Napolis.

 

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Another 'breathe in the bag" moment from Styxhexenhammer, notable internet Holocaust revisionist and all-round sexy pencil ... the topic being yesterday's Wall Street Journal story about Donald Trump and the Porn Star**. 

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** Memeorandum snapshot from yesterday:

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Trump Lawyer Arranged $130,000 Payment for Adult-Film Star's Silence  —  Agreement just before election required woman to keep quiet about an alleged sexual encounter with Trump in 2006, people familiar with the matter say  —  A lawyer for President Donald Trump arranged a $130,000 payment …
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Porn Star: Donald Trump and Stormy Daniels Invited Me to Their Hotel Room … On Friday, The Wall Street Journal reported that Michael Cohen, the longtime lawyer for President Donald J. Trump, arranged a $130,000 hush payment to porn star Stormy Daniels one month prior to the 2016 presidential election.
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Porn Star Was Reportedly Paid to Stay Quiet About Trump  —  A lawyer for President Trump orchestrated a $130,000 payment to a pornographic-film actress in October 2016 to prevent her from going public with claims of a consensual sexual encounter with Mr. Trump, The Wall Street Journal reported on Friday.

-- in other conspiracy news, the mass-text message hoax/fall snooze that hit Hawaii today has yet to be covered by the alt-commentariat on Youtube; I'll try to dig up the least deranged reactions from the Twitter colossus.

My reactionary reaction?  Psychological Warfare.

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Further to the sexiest pencil in Vermont ...

Oddly, or not so oddly, Sexy Pencil Incel has cleansed his Youtube channel of the above video -- as well as a video in which he attempted to argue with internet avenger/satirist PeterNorway.  Cleanse cleanse cleanse.

(PeterNorway is a burr under the saddle of Twitter sensation PeterSweden, who is Swedish but devoted to revealing all the hellish nightmares he can fasten upon in, er, Norway)

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Previously, on Q-watch ... notes from David Seaman.

On 1/9/2018 at 10:29 AM, william.scherk said:

Q-Anon, NSA, Whistleblowers, Leaf-blowers, Rabbit-hole, Illuminati bloodlines, 'not all RH-Negative people are shape-shifting Reptilians who own central banks,'  Luciferian pedophiles, Cro-Magnon, hybrid species,  uranium, Ancestry.com, 8chan, "lizard bloodlines are not my specialty" ... and more!

First, a couple of "official" links. Q-anon's special page at https://qcodefag.github.io is the repository for all Q posts published to date, beginning with his/her first postings back in late October 2017, which I screen-shot:

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On the Github page, there is Q and Q alone. However, up until January 8, a first "official" page at 8chan was the repository. Included at the 8chan page were responses and questions and so on linked to individual postings [ https://archive.4plebs.org/pol/thread/146981635/#147005381 ]. For example, I screenshot the first Q posting (with my mouse over on followup link):

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So, if Q is the real deal -- meaning a person with real-world connections to a variety of insider sources -- Hillary Rodham Clinton was arrested on Monday, October 30. On that date, it is reported she was in Chicago on her book tour. Q said "HRC extradition [was] already in motion" and that US Marines will have conducted the operations.  I don't know if there were massive riots following her extradition from Chicago, but there is video of her wearing something on her foot:

-- as an aside, note that at least one OLer has been keeping track of the predictions: "McConnell, McCain, the Bushes, Clintons, Obamas and many thousands more will be rounded up very soon."

Anyway, Q. What is going on with Q this week?  Here is a couple of screenshots from the official Q page:

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[TG is, I believe Trey Gowdy, who stepped down from leadership of the House Ethics Committee]

RATS everywhere! EVIL everywhere! TRAITORS everywhere! 

But I digress ...

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Since these posts are somewhat cryptic, and perhaps not fully comprehensible to folks that haven't read all 536 of them, it might be necessary to find an interpreter or several. My favourite Q-Whisperer is Jordan Sather -- because in his Youtube videos he always includes links to the material he highlights. Here is his latest, uploaded an hour ago ...

Notes from his page:

1.15 - Future Proves Q/BIG WEEK/Fake News Awards 'Game Plan'

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Streamed live 49 minutes ago

SUBSCRIBED 103K
DTI Imgur (will be updating over the day) - https://destroyingtheillusion.imgur.c...
Today's links Q's 8chan Board - https://8ch.net/greatawakening/res/1....
Bill Clinton Triggered, Denies Clinton Foundation's Haiti Funds Were Used For Chelsea Wedding - https://goo.gl/swhLen
Delta flight evacuated due to smoke at JFK Airport - https://goo.gl/WQyzcE
Twitter's Jack Dorsey to leave Disney's board over potential conflict of interest - https://goo.gl/6U2426
Trump Blasts "Fake News" WSJ For Misquoting Him - https://goo.gl/aVsL92
Man arrested for terrorist threats aimed at Steelers-Jaguars NFL playoff game - https://goo.gl/87asCm Washington D.C. subway train derails, no injuries reported - https://goo.gl/WrwFfF .

 

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6 hours ago, william.scherk said:

So, if Q is the real deal -- meaning a person with real-world connections...

 

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[TG is, I believe Trey Gowdy, who stepped down from leadership of the House Ethics Committee]

RATS everywhere! EVIL everywhere! TRAITORS everywhere! 

But I digress ...

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Q has said that misinformation is necessary. He/she/they/it produce a lot of it. Well spotted.

Yes, TG is Trey Gowdey, and the answer to the question “What ROLE might TG be walking into?” is, the role of criminal prosecutor, for the more than 10,000 sealed indictments that have been filed around the country. It won’t be his first time.

Wikipedia:

Before his election to Congress, Gowdy was the solicitor (district attorney) for the state's Seventh Judicial Circuit, comprising Spartanburg and Cherokee Counties. From 1994 to 2000, he was a federal prosecutor for the U.S. Attorney for the District of South Carolina. From 2014 to 2016, Gowdy chaired the United States House Select Committee on Events Surrounding the 2012 Terrorist Attack in Benghazi.[2][3] Gowdy pressed for the prosecution of Hillary Clinton during the 2016 campaign.[4] Since 2017 and the resignation of Jason Chaffetz he chairs of the House Oversight Committee.

 

Al-Waleed bin Talal was the top largest Clinton donor and was the largest or 2nd largest Twitter owner. He was arrested, hung upside down and tortured by the new Saudi Crown Prince. His assets were frozen before Christmas at the same time Trump declared a National Emergency. 

Twitter May have new leadership soon. James O’Keefe of Project Veritas has some interesting videos coming. Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey said to be made to look especially bad. Dorsey is an example of pure evil. High level cabal. A sudden neck stretch awaits him.

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Jordan Sather lets us in on the phenomena of "remote viewing." Cue the Rupert Sheldrake Choir ...

Maybe a little bit hard to swallow for an Objectivish person, that Consciousness == Reality, but hey. That damn Kant ruined everything.

-- No Q-strodamus drops today.

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If you are going to 'connect the dots,' you might as well connect as many dots as possible -- this is the Mysterian Way.

Here Jordan Sather connects a hella number of dots and notions:

  • Meteor fireballs? or Directed Energy Weapons? 
  • Emergency landing or Secret Extraction Operation?
  • Q Anon the Greatest Nostradamus-Insider of All?
  • Critics .... or Trolls?
  • Secret Space Programme or UFO distraction?
  • Anti-Hate Site or Hate Site Psy-Ops, SPLC?

I've cued up the video to Jordan's final bit of connecting dots. Did you know that "Pedogate" is directly connected to extra-terrestrials, UFOs and GMOs/Fluoride and to vaccines and to geo-engineering slash chemtrails?  

"Speaking of the storm a day ago the Southern Poverty Law Center it's basically this slander website ran an article on conspiracy metatheory the storm pushes the alternative envelope yet again as Q said the conspiracy pushes on and also the psyops the CIA psyops are on to to really confuse the out of everybody with the whole UFO extraterrestrial secret space program topics as well so anyway that's why I talk about them all you guys some people are like oh I'm Jordan stop talking about space you need to focus on these issues hey no man how about I report on what I want to report on and it's all connected anyway so pedo gate is directly connected to nonterrestrials and the secret space program and everything else as well directly connected to geoengineering and vaccines and GMOs pharmaceutical corruption and dead doctors it's all connected."

It's all connected!

Or ... not.

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January 17, 2018
 
 
David Neiwert

‘QAnon’ posts at message boards, wildly popular with far right, sprout huge web of fantastic theories about Trump, an imminent ‘Deep State countercoup,’ and arrests aimed at liberals’ supposed ‘pedophilia ring.’ 

Compiled from Internet sources.

In an online universe where conspiracy theories not only sprout like kudzu but attract bigger audiences the more outrageous and strange they grow, it was probably inevitable that an uber-theory like “The Storm” would become an overnight sensation.

Part “Pizzagate,” part New World Order, and part hyper-partisan wishful thinking by defenders of Donald Trump, “the Storm” is a sprawling meta-conspiracy, with actors ranging from Hillary Clinton to model Christy Teigen, in which everything you know about the current investigations into Russian meddling in the 2016 election and potential collusion with the Trump campaign is upside down.

Special counsel Robert Mueller, in this alternative universe, is in fact preparing to indict hundreds of Democrats (including Clinton, Barack Obama, and financier George Soros) and Hollywood celebrities for their roles in a massive worldwide pedophilia ring, operated by “globalists” who are conspiring to destroy Trump — and that the president himself is himself masterminding this “countercoup.”

“What we have come up with is a possible coup,” explained conspiracy theorist David Zublick in a late-November video, “not against Donald Trump, but by Donald Trump, working with Robert Mueller to bring down the Clintons, the Democrat Party, and the entire U.S. government involved in pedophilia and child sex trafficking.”

In just a few short weeks, the theory has grown from a handful of posts on fringe Internet chat forums to become the overwhelming obsession of nearly every conspiracy theorist in the business, notably Alex Jones and his Infowars operation, as well as social-media figures such as Liz Crokin. In addition to being a constant focus of discussion on Infowars, dozens of YouTube videos and thousands of Twitter posts exploring various facets of the conspiracy, and presenting the usual dubious “evidence” to “prove” it, have shown up on the Internet.

The origins of “The Storm” lie in Trump’s cryptic remarks on October 6, saying that a gathering of military leaders represented “the calm before the storm.” When asked what he meant, Trump responded: “You’ll see.”

Three weeks later, as New York Magazine’s Paris Martineau reported, an anonymous poster at the Internet message board 4chan — one of the main organizing and recruitment forums for the alt-right — who claimed he had high-level “Q” national-security clearance began publishing a series of cryptic messages that he claimed were “intel drops” intended to start informing the public through such channels about what was really happening inside the White House, and what Trump really meant by his odd remarks.

According to “QAnon,” Trump’s remark was a reference to the indictments handed down by Mueller in late October, ostensibly related to his investigation of the Trump campaign and its alleged collusion with Russian intelligence. Most news reports about those indictments, reported to number in the hundreds, presumed that they were related to criminal behavior around the campaign.

Not so, said “QAnon,” who claimed that Trump was never really under investigation. Instead, those indictments were all being directed at a massive conspiracy involving a global pedophilia ring operated by high-level Democrats and other “globalists” who were simultaneously part of a plot to overthrow Trump’s presidency with a “deep state” coup.

This is the same pedophilia ring that was the focus of the “Pizzagate” conspiracy theorythat excited much of the far right in the months after the 2016 election. The conspiracists, including Jones, claimed that Clinton campaign adviser John Podesta’s emails, stolen by hackers during the campaign and published on Wikileaks, revealed that he, Clinton, and a host of others were part of a pedophilia ring operating out of a Washington, D.C., pizza parlor.

However, in the new expanded version of the theory, the pedophilia ring has gone global, drawing in alleged participants from all around the nation, and occurring in locations ranging from Hollywood to Europe. (One version of the pedophilia theory entertained by Jones claimed that the child victims were being secretly shipped to a colony on Mars.)

“QAnon” and the conspiracy theorists who piled on at 4chan, 8chan, and on Twitter claimed that contrary to the running story in mainstream media, this pedophilia ring is the real focus of Mueller’s investigation. The general conclusion, spread through the #qanon hashtag on social media, was that a wave of arrests – including Clinton, Obama, Podesta, Soros, Sen. John McCain, and a number of leading Hollywood figures and Democrats was about to happen.

As Martineau pointed out, however, there has been a credibility problem for “QAnon” early on, since he posted in early November a scenario in which hundreds of arrests, and massive social turmoil, were about to be unleashed within a matter of days. “Rest assured, the safety and well-being of every man, woman, and child of this country is being exhausted in full,” he wrote. “However, the atmosphere within the country will unfortunately be divided as so many have fallen for the corrupt and evil narrative that has long been broadcast. We will be initiating the Emergency Broadcast System (EMS) during this time in an effort to provide a direct message (avoiding the fake news) to all citizens.”

 

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william.scherk
On 1/15/2018 at 9:35 AM, william.scherk said:

My favourite Q-Whisperer is Jordan Sather -- because in his Youtube videos he always includes links to the material he highlights.

Jordan has introduced some technical enhancements -- apparently using software called Wirecast -- giving viewers a clearer view of the items he features:

-- his erstwhile "competitor" David Seaman is also using some software-enabled enhancements in the past fortnight,  offering the same kind of browser/screen view with webcam overlay. But he hasn't posted anything in a few days (which is most unlike his usual schedule of at least one video a day).

Then there is Styx.  He is keeping the same guy-ranting-in-peekaboo-leather format as ever. 

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william.scherk

There will be a Week that Was starting about 60 minutes ago. The centrepiece of hoopla will be "The MEMO."

-- in between training sessions, I'll try to add notes below on the week that already was and the week to come in Scandalworld.  There are a few names and details of fact to bear in mind as the wave begins to crash.  If you insist on searching down your own information, all you need is a hashtag:  #ReleaseTheMemo

If you are a dot-connector, there will be a big dot in the middle of all Trump topics. Basically, the House just voted to ask the White House to approve the release of The Memo.

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william.scherk
On 29/01/2018 at 4:39 PM, william.scherk said:

If you are a dot-connector, there will be a big dot in the middle of all Trump topics. Basically, the House just voted to ask the White House to approve the release of The Memo.

What is in the memo -- prepared by staff of Congressman Nunes? Due to its 'secret sources' we won't know the whole story of its confection. What we may find out is if it is a wholly partisan ploy to discredit the FBI ... in which case the department has several lines of "fighting back" ... from the Daily Beast's Betsy Woodruff:

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FIGHTING BACK

FBI Launches Preemptive Strike on Devin Nunes’ Memo, Ripping It for ‘Omissions of Fact’

Before the White House releases an explosive memo claiming the bureau abused its power, the bureau goes after Republicans.

01.31.18 12:41 PM ET

The FBI said it is gravely concerned about House Republicans’ memo alleging the bureau abused its surveillance powers. The memo is expected to be released publicly soon. In a statement released Wednesday, a bureau spokesperson questioned the memo’s accuracy.

“With regard to the House Intelligence Committee’s memorandum, the FBI was provided a limited opportunity to review this memo the day before the committee voted to release it. As expressed during our initial review, we have grave concerns about material omissions of fact that fundamentally impact the memo’s accuracy,” the spokesperson said.

“The FBI takes seriously its obligations to the FISA Court and its compliance with procedures overseen by career professionals in the Department of Justice and the FBI,” the spokesperson continued. “We are committed to working with the appropriate oversight entities to ensure the continuing integrity of the FISA process.”

The memo reportedly alleges Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein withheld information from the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court about the FBI's request to renew for a warrant to spy on Trump campaign aide Carter Page.

 

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william.scherk

"The FBI said it was gravely concerned."

1 hour ago, william.scherk said:

The FBI said it is gravely concerned about House Republicans’ memo alleging the bureau abused its surveillance powers. 

Oh noes!  Grave concerns ...

This is the state of Grand Supreme Hoopla at this very moment:

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FBI's Wray Opposes GOP Memo Release, Citing Inaccuracies  —  Trump overheard saying memo ‘100 percent’ should be released  —  Republicans say memo raises doubts about Russia probe  —  FBI Director Christopher Wray has informed the White House of his opposition to releasing a controversial …
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F.B.I. Director Condemns Republicans' Move to Release Secret Memo  —  WASHINGTON — Christopher A. Wray, the F.B.I. director, clashed publicly with the president for the first time on Wednesday, condemning a push by House Republicans to release a secret memo that purports to show how the bureau …
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FBI challenges accuracy of GOP's surveillance memo
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Justice Dept. officials appealed to White House to halt release of memo alleging FBI abuses related …
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Viewers approve of Trump's first State of the Union address - CBS News poll  —  Views of the speech  —  Three in four Americans who tuned in to President Trump's State of the Union address tonight approved of the speech he gave.  Just a quarter disapproved.  —  How did the speech make you feel?

 

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Michael Stuart Kelly

The press--and the liberals--used to hold "speak truth to power" as a moral and political value, especially when questioning institutions like the FBI.

Now they are toadies for power, want everything in darkness behind closed doors, and consider President Trump as an impostor to the throne.

I heard somewhere that Trey Gowdy was one of the authors of the memo. If true, good. Thank God the author is not a fake news journalist...

:)

Michael

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MereMortal
9 hours ago, Michael Stuart Kelly said:

The press--and the liberals--used to hold "speak truth to power" as a moral and political value, especially when questioning institutions like the FBI.

Now they are toadies for power, want everything in darkness behind closed doors, and consider President Trump as an impostor to the throne.

I heard somewhere that Trey Gowdy was one of the authors of the memo. If true, good. Thank God the author is not a fake news journalist...

:)

Michael

I suppose they will claim that the FBI is the one speaking "truth to power" now because they see Trump as the power and the FBI as the resistance.   

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Jon Letendre
On 15/01/2018 at 3:25 PM, Jon Letendre said:

 

Q has said that misinformation is necessary. He/she/they/it produce a lot of it. Well spotted.

Yes, TG is Trey Gowdey, and the answer to the question “What ROLE might TG be walking into?” is, the role of criminal prosecutor, for the more than 10,000 sealed indictments that have been filed around the country. It won’t be his first time.

Wikipedia:

Before his election to Congress, Gowdy was the solicitor (district attorney) for the state's Seventh Judicial Circuit, comprising Spartanburg and Cherokee Counties. From 1994 to 2000, he was a federal prosecutor for the U.S. Attorney for the District of South Carolina. From 2014 to 2016, Gowdy chaired the United States House Select Committee on Events Surrounding the 2012 Terrorist Attack in Benghazi.[2][3] Gowdy pressed for the prosecution of Hillary Clinton during the 2016 campaign.[4] Since 2017 and the resignation of Jason Chaffetz he chairs of the House Oversight Committee.

 

Al-Waleed bin Talal was the top largest Clinton donor and was the largest or 2nd largest Twitter owner. He was arrested, hung upside down and tortured by the new Saudi Crown Prince. His assets were frozen before Christmas at the same time Trump declared a National Emergency. 

Twitter May have new leadership soon. James O’Keefe of Project Veritas has some interesting videos coming. Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey said to be made to look especially bad. Dorsey is an example of pure evil. High level cabal. A sudden neck stretch awaits him.

 

Gowdy returning to the justice system...

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william.scherk
9 hours ago, Jon Letendre said:

Very nasty things about Schiff and Standard Hotel being said today.

Passive voice ... "being said" by whom? "Very nasty things" like what?  From the fever-swamps of Twitter/4chan/8chan?

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