So there's a Telegram channel that seems to be trying to pass itself off as QAnon's "Q". The channel's about a week old and has more than 50k subscribers already.
The "Q" group was promoted in several popular QAnon channels back before it had any posts (maybe it had one or two), which suggests someone is trying to push it.
The actual content it's posting is, frankly, a bit crap. blushy-smile Emojis? Yup, this is clearly a legit super-sekkrit military insider moving to take down the Deep State.
It caught my eye originally because I couldn't understand why a brand-new, basically empty channel was being promoted in big QAnon channels. Well, today the person behind it started signing their posts as "Q".
In all likelihood, I think this incarnation of "Q" is a QAnon influencer/promoter, maybe a known name or maybe someone who just runs QAnon Telegram channels. And they're not very good at it.
CISA, the FBI and the Treasury Dept are warning about North Korean Bitcoin-stealing malware known as AppleJeus, which has been posing as cryptocurrency trading platforms since 2018. Culprit is DPRK's Lazarus Group APT us-cert.cisa.gov/ncas/alerts/aa…
Ah, so I was wrong. This IS what the big announcement is about today. DoJ indicted North Koerean hackers who stole $1.3 BILLION in cash and cryptocurrency over recent years. That's an enormous amount.
The details here are mind-blowing. Cyber-heists from banks by hacking into the SWIFT system, ATM hacks, ransomware, crypto theft, and running their own dodgy ICO to help North Korea take over shipping companies.
Yet more good vaccine data: Israel's Maccabi HMO finds >95% effectiveness of the Pfizer coronavirus vaccine. Of 602k fully-vaccinated people, only 608 tested positive for the virus (0.1%), compared to 20,621 cases in the control group of 528k people (3.9%) over the same period.
Of the 608 cases among the fully vaccinated (>7 days from second dose), only 21 were hospitalised, of which 7 were considered 'serious'. Most of the 608 cases had either mild symptoms or none at all.
Note that the primary measure is different from the Pfizer study, which looked for symptomatic disease. Maccabi's effectiveness data counts all positive tests, including asymptomatic positives, in both groups.
Great thread. There was a point in Trump's term where there was a serious debate about constraining the powers of the presidency. What happened to that debate?
1. Congress should legislate against Presidents owning businesses that get foreign gifts, making explicit the Emoluments Clause.
2. Congress should take back or curtail a lot of the powers it's given to the Presidency, especially the emergency powers detailed in this @lizagoitein article theatlantic.com/magazine/archi…
Researchers from Israel's Clalit HMO, led by @RanBalicer, find Pfizer Covid vaccine reduces symptomatic disease by 94% and serious disease by 92%.
@RanBalicer The research included 600k vaccinated people aged 16 and up, of whom 170k were over 60.
@RanBalicer Each vaccinated person was 'paired' with a unvaccinated person with a similar age, health and risk profile, creating a control group of 600k and a vaccinated group of 600k.
Some of the QAnon groups on Telegram are very big, but the members have some doubts. Here's an 2017 Q drop posted just now to a group with 180,000 members. I assume the poster wanted everyone to be reassured by the last line about "zero risk of impeachment". But...
People in the group don't understand. What's the relevance of some 2017 post about Jeff Sessions? Q believers try to get the discussion back on track. "future proves past... ask around". But some of the people are frustrated.
This 180k member QAnon group, with , is full of people who don't believe in QAnon. Hardcore Trumpers who joined for the community.
"I like trump i think what they're doing to him is disgusting and shameful!! But all these predictions make me feel like im listening to miss Cleo"