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aristarchus [soylentnews.org] writes:

Guffey continues to excavate conspiracy theories at Salon [salon.com]:

In the previous two installments of this series, I chronicled the attempts made by an old friend to convince me of an outlandish conspiracy theory being promoted by the group of rabid online Donald Trump supporters known as "QAnon." According to my friend, initiates of the Illuminati had teamed up with subterranean demons to torture, rape and eat kidnapped children in underground military bases ruled by Trump's mortal enemies. Not surprisingly, none of the so-called "evidence" provided by my friend proved any such thing. Onward from there we go …

Guffey? McGuffin? Or is it a Mickey Flynn?

Fun with Adrenochrome!
The second link my friend sent me, entitled "ADRENOCHROME — Those Who Know Cannot Sleep," was posted by a QAnon advocate who calls himself Vinctum. On Twitter, Vinctum describes himself as a "Red Pilled Armenian bloke from the Netherlands that's into Personal Growth, Spirituality, Psychology, and Conspiracy facts." Though he joined Twitter as recently as January of 2020, he already has more than 3,000 followers

Never heard of this? Perhaps the Lamestream Media is hiding it from you! Or, it is a fictional creation of Hunter S. Thompson. And then there is the inevitable Comet Ping Pong Pizza, " In the weird, wild mythology of QAnon, Comet Ping Pong is the equivalent of Mordor, the home base of arch-villain Sauron in J.R.R. Tolkien's 'The Lord of the Rings.'" But then it gets weirder.

Not only does QAnon remind me of Salem witch hunters and New Age UFO cultists, but this brand new religion also resembles L. Ron Hubbard's Church of Scientology. At a backyard barbecue in Venice, California, 20 years ago, I met a fellow who had been a member of Scientology for 10 years until he finally woke up to the fact that he was being played for a fool and decided to turn the tables on them.

Religions are not all crazy, but, some are.

"Out of Shadows"
In the Christian world of QAnon, Democrats and Satanists are the same.

The hatred that Christians harbor against Satanists has always baffled me. After all, they share the same beliefs. Both groups ostensibly believe in the existence of the same mythological entities. A Christian and a Satanist would naturally have far more in common than a Christian and a Buddhist. A Buddhist doesn't even believe in Satan. The respective belief systems of Christians and Satanists are branches of the same cosmology.

Buddhists do have Mara, but it's not the same at all really. But this "Out of the Shadows" is out there.

About 20 minutes into its running time, after dealing with the potentially dangerous intersection between Hollywood and the U.S. intelligence community, "Out of Shadows" abandons any pretense of objectivity when it presents a montage of various news reporters repeating the same words ("This is extremely dangerous to our democracy" being the most memorable refrain), not bothering to mention the fact that this mimicry was the result of a pro-Trump campaign initiated by the Sinclair Broadcast Group in 2018.

Sinclair? Or "Sin_lair"? Hiding in plain sight.

Among corporations and intelligence agencies — not to mention certain high-profile political figures — it's standard operating procedure to accuse your opponents of offenses you yourself are committing. The filmmakers of "Out of Shadows" take this tactic to heart. This is a consistent strategy used by the QAnon cultists, as when they fret about "black hats" locking helpless children in cages — despite the fact that the only government agents known to have committed such acts against children (i.e., immigrant children) are the Homeland Security agents carrying out the policies of Donald Trump, the very man QAnon claims is working hard behind the scenes to free abused children from subterranean cages. (In a world that still contained nuance and humor, I suppose one might call this "irony." In our current situation, however, we'll just have to call it a "fact" and leave it at that.)

So, to sum up,

Louis Tackwood, Alex Constantine, Walter Bowart, Maury Terry, John W. DeCamp, Gordon Thomas, Christopher Simpson, Jordan Maxwell, Mae Brussell, Lyndon LaRouche, Dr. Peter Beter, Jack McLamb. Work plundered from all the above researchers has been stitched together by QAnon into a weird, sprawling patchwork quilt of conspiracies. That the original researchers are never cited by QAnon suggests that the purpose of Q — and particularly of the "Out of Shadows" documentary — is not to inform. It's to disinform.

That's why there are only four specific sources cited throughout "Out of Shadows": the aforementioned former Hollywood stunt man named Mike Smith, who admits that his supposed information was gleaned from too much time spent surfing the internet while convalescing from a work-related injury, which means that his experiences in the film industry are irrelevant in the context of this film; a still active stunt man named Brad Martin; a "former" CIA operative named Kevin Shipp; and a journalist named Liz Crokin. That's it. Instead of interviewing a university professor like Christopher Simpson about Project Paperclip, they use accurate information only to drive home the real point: Believe in the theories of QAnon. And what's the inevitable result of accepting QAnon's theories into your heart?

Voting for Donald Trump.

Convalescing at home, too much time surfing the 'Net? Sounds very familiar.
Much more detail in the original article, especially good on Aquino.

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