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An entertaining,  illuminating, video essay by Kirby Ferguson (of long-running webseries ‘Everything Is A Remix’ and ‘This Is Not A Conspiracy Theory’) chronicling the rise and worldwide spread of ‘magical thinking’, QAnon and other far right conspiracy movements.

Ireland even gets a special mention.

Yay!

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From top: Twitter CEO Peter Dinklage Jack Dorsey; tweets announcing the purging of Qanon accounts

Last night/this morning.

Twitter said t has removed more than 7,000 accounts associated with the QAnon conspiracy theory…

…Content associated with QAnon will be banned from the platform’s trends section and tweets sharing links involving QAnon theories will be blocked, Twitter officials said.

Twitter officials said that the crackdown against QAnon is expected to affect more than 150,000 accounts, making it the most wide-reaching and aggressive response to the pro-Trump conspiracy theory that any social media platform has ever undertaken.

The new measures against QAnon, Twitter said, are in line with the company’s effort to police content that can lead to offline harm…

Is someone over the target?

We may never know.

Twitter Removes Thousands Of QAnon Accounts, Promises Sweeping Ban On The Conspiracy (NPR)

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Via Zero Hedge:

If you’re unfamiliar with Q or only know it through the media’s attacks, I’d like to provide a brief introduction to this extraordinary phenomenon.

I’ve followed Q since the first drop, and I’ve grown increasingly impressed by the accuracy, breadth and depth of Q’s messages.

Q followers were prepared long in advance for the easing of hostilities with North Korea, the deflation of the mullahs of Iran, and the discovery of Ukraine as a hotbed of corruption for American politicians.

They knew a great deal about Jeffrey Epstein’s activities before the public did and anticipate even more shocking revelations to come.

As Q likes to say, “Future proves past.” As Q’s predictions come true, they lend retroactive credibility to the entire enterprise.

Q’s followers believe that Q is a military intelligence operation, the first of its kind, whose goal is to provide the public with secret information.

Many Q followers think the Q team was founded by Admiral Michael Rogers, the former Director of the National Security Agency and former Commander of US Cyber Command.

Some suspect that Dan Scavino, White House Director of Social Media, is part of the team, because the high quality of Q’s writing has the luster of a communications expert.

Q is a new weapon in the game of information warfare, bypassing a hostile media and corrupt government to communicate directly with the public.

Think of Q as a companion to Trump’s twitter. Whereas Trump communicates bluntly and directly, Q is cryptic, sly and subtle, offering only clues that beg for context and connection.

FIGHT!

An Introduction To ‘Q’ (Zero Hedge)

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The suspected mob boss killer and his ‘doodles of hate’

Where we go one, we go ‘ah here’.

Man Suspected of Killing Gambino Mob Boss Drew QAnon Symbols on Hands in Court (New York Magazine)

Pics: AP

Meanwhile

Hmm.

A big day for Bodger, in fairness.

More as we get it.

Surveillance memo could be declassified Friday (Fox News)

Meanwhile…

Yikes.

UPDATE:

The House Intelligence Committee has released the memo outlining alleged abuses of secret surveillance by the FBI and Justice Department in the Trump-Russia investigation.

Key points:

* The Steele dossier formed an essential part of the initial and all three renewal FISA applications against Carter Page.

* Andrew McCabe confirmed that no FISA warrant would have been sought from the FISA Court without the Steele dossier information.

* The political origins of the Steele dossier were known to senior DOJ and FBI officials, but excluded from the FISA applications.

* DOJ official Bruce Ohr met with Steele beginning in the summer of 2016 and relayed to DOJ information about Steele’s bias. Steele told Ohr that he, Steele, was desperate that Donald Trump not get elected president and was passionate about him not becoming president.

House Intelligence memo released: What it says (Washington Examiner)

 

An Amtrak train transporting members of Congress and staff to a Republican retreat in West Virginia struck a truck near Charlottesville, Virginia Wednesday morning, according to multiple sources. No serious injuries were reported on the train.

They really don’t want that memo released.

Train carrying members of Congress hits truck (Politico)

Meanwhile…

Hmm.

Former US President Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton at the 2016 DNC convention

All hell is breaking loose in Washington D.C. after a four-page memo detailing extensive FISA court abuse was made available to the entire House of Representatives last night.

The contents of the memo are so explosive, says Journalist Sara Carter, that it could lead to the removal of senior officials in the FBI and the Department of Justice and the end of Robert Mueller’s special counsel investigation [into alleged Russia-Trump collusion].

Source close to the matter tells Fox News that “the memo details the Intelligence Committee’s oversight work for the FBI and Justice, including the controversy over unmasking and FISA surveillance.”

An educated guess by anyone who’s been paying attention for the last year leads to the obvious conclusion that the report reveals extensive abuse of power and highly illegal collusion between the Obama administration, the FBI, the DOJ and the Clinton Campaign against Donald Trump and his team during and after the 2016 presidential election.

Gulp.

Explosive”, “Shocking” And “Alarming” FISA Memo Set To Rock DC, “End Mueller Investigation” (Zero Hedge)

GOP lawmakers demand that ‘alarming’ memo on FISA abuses be made public (Fox News)

Previously: It’s A Fakedown

All Will Become Clear

The latest drop by ‘qanon’ on 8chan

Chompsky: “Bodger, what on earth is this about now?”

Bodger: “Qanon.”

Chompsky: “What?”

Bodger: “A person close to Donald Trump who has been leaving cryptic messages like the ones above on the websites 4chan and 8chan since October 31.”

Chompsky: “About what?”

Bodger: “Child trafficking and taking down the ‘Deep State’, the Clintons, Obama, the Bushes and several oligarch globalists like George Soros. Full thread here.”

Chompsky. “Is this what you’ve been doing all Christmas?”

Bodger: “Sort of.”

Chompsky: “I thought you were working. Why I haven’t heard about qanon?

Bodger: “Mainstream media won’t touch it.”

Chompsky: “Why not?”

Bodger: It’s both fantastically complex and involves them. Events quickened on December 21 following the ecexutive order signed by Trump declaring a national state of emergency and allowing the US Treasury to confiscate property from “corrupt entities” in the US and across the world.

Chompsky: Can you briefly  summarise in graphic form what it’s about?

Bodger: “Sure…

Chompsky: ‘Ah here.”

Bodger: “Dastardly and complex, right”

Chompsky: “The doodles of a raving lunatic.”

Bodger: “All will become clear in the coming days and weeks, according to qanon. Meanwhile, can I suggest you follow the twitter hashtag qanon and the reportage of New York journalist vlogger Lionel Nation for updates.”

Chompsky: “You’re on your own Bodge. The site can only take so much ridicule.”

Bodger: “I am sure the readers will appreciate the opportunity to add their reasoned and  thoughtful views on the subject.”

[pause]

Bodger: “FIGHT!”

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