🛑 THREAD: The true story connecting January 6th, Parler, QAnon, Russia, and Standing Rock goes back decades. Here’s what happened, who did it, and why.
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2/In 1975-1976, the Church Committee investigated allegations that CIA, NSA, FBI, IRS, and Army intelligence had spied on Americans and otherwise abused power; the committee's work led to changes that greatly limited the power of these agencies.
3/Angry about these new limits, in 1979 LARRY MCDONALD and JACK SINGLAUB founded WESTERN GOALS, a private intelligence agency. The group aimed to vacuum up and index intel "discarded" by agencies that, after Church reforms, could no longer retain it.
4/MCDONALD was active in the JOHN BIRCH SOCIETY, a purveyor of medical misinformation, and a conspiracist.
Maj. Gen. JACK SINGLAUB was an original member of OSS, and then CIA. His case officer was WILLIAM CASEY, who would later direct CIA. politico.com/magazine/story…
5/SINGLAUB was also a founder of the WORLD ANTI-COMMUNIST LEAGUE, and later its US chapter, the US COUNCIL FOR WORLD FREEDOM. WACL was staunchly anti-Soviet, anti-China, and anti-communism, and generally far-right in its orientation.
6/After Reagan was elected in 1980, the right was galvanized to action. The COUNCIL FOR NATIONAL POLICY (CNP) was founded in 1981 by TIM LAHAYE, PAUL WEYRICH and other conservatives who aimed to operationalize their networks for tangible, immediate gains.
7/CNP’s membership is secret. PHYLLIS SCHLAFLY was a founding member. Her group, the “SCHLAFLY EAGLES” led opposition of the proposed Equal Rights Amendment, and championed anti-abortion laws and traditional gender roles.
8/SINGLAUB was active in CNP; MCDONALD was killed Sep 1, 1983 when Korean Airlines flight KAL007 was shot down by the USSR, having strayed into their airspace. MCDONALD happened to have been on board. His death left Western Goals in Singlaub’s hands.
11/ROBERT “BUD” MCFARLANE (Reagan NSC head) was also convicted in the Iran-Contra affair. He tried suicide on Feb 9, 1987, three hours prior to his testimony to the Tower Commission about the arms sales. He was later pardoned under then-AG William Barr.
12/When the USSR dissolved in 1991, the Bush administration reset the country’s defense stance.
WACL realized they had scored a major victory, but recalibrated around the emerging threat posed by China. Falun Gong formed in May 1992 to oppose the CCP.
13/In Russia, oligarchs consolidated power, privatizing state-owned industries. ALEKSANDR DUGIN’s “Foundations of Geopolitics” was published in 1997. It championed a “Eurasian” realignment, eradication of NATO and EU, and a return to “traditional values.”
14/In 1995, ALLAN CARLSON traveled to Russia to meet people also interested in “traditional values.” There, he had the idea to form the World Congress of Families (WCF), focused on international collaboration between Christian-aligned groups.
15/Over time, WCF became even more connected to Russian power, especially ALEXEY KOMOV, VLADIMIR YAKUNIN, and KONSTANTIN MALOFEEV; notably, Malofeev has called for “conservative” versions of Facebook, Wikipedia, and Google.
16/REBEKAH MERCER’s associate SEAN FIELER with THOMAS PETERS and VLADISLAV SERYAKOV created uCampaign, which made apps for the Cruz (CNP) and Trump campaigns in 2016. Peters worked with WCF’s BRIAN BROWN at National Organization for Marriage, a group opposing gay marriage.
17/In 2006, Iran-Contra figure BUD MCFARLANE wrote an essay for The National Interest, the magazine of the Center for National Interest, arguing that the US should partner with Brazil and Russia on oil. Oil is key.
18/On April 27, 2016, DONALD TRUMP, SERGEY KISLYAK, BUD MCFARLANE, JEFF SESSIONS, PAUL MANAFORT, et al gather at the Mayflower Hotel in DC for a major Trump foreign policy speech, sponsored by Center for National Interest, which made overtures to Russia.
19/Starting in April 2016, native people and various allies organized at Standing Rock, South Dakota in protest of the Dakota Access Pipeline. The protest was monitored and ultimately infiltrated and broken up by TIGERSWAN, a private security firm.
20/TigerSwan was founded by former delta force operator JAMES REESE. He worked for ERIK PRINCE’s BLACKWATER, which funded TigerSwan’s operations. Prince is a member of CNP. His father RICHARD DEVOS was president of CNP. His sister BETSY is also a member.
21/In July of 2016, LT. GEN. MICHAEL FLYNN appeared on a CNP panel on “Terrorism and the Condition of the Military.” Flynn had a chip on his shoulder which would only grow worse over time. By 2017 he was indicted after his brief term at the NSC. newyorker.com/magazine/2017/…
22/On Sep 14, 2018, The Schlafly Eagles held their annual gathering.
They awarded GEN. FLYNN the inaugural “JACK SINGLAUB AWARD,” after the anti-communist Iran-Contra figure, WACL founder, and longtime CNP supporter.
23/The 2018 gathering was sponsored by GATEWAY PUNDIT publisher JIM HOFT and included alt-right agitators CASSANDRA FAIRBANKS (former Sputnik), MIKE CERNOVICH, and JACK POSOBIEC. Also Flynn’s brother and son, far-right European MPs PETR BYSTROM (AfD) and DOMINIK TARCZYŃSKI (PiS).
24/The 2019 Schlafly Eagles gathering included longtime CNP member, January 6th leader ALI AKBAR (aka ALI ALEXANDER), agitators SCOTT PRESLER, BRANDON STRAKA (#walkaway), and LOGAN COOK (aka CarpeDonktum). Cook led a PR offensive for Parler in 2020. washingtontimes.com/news/2020/jun/…
25/REBEKAH MERCER provided funding for NDMASCENDANT LLC, the opaque corporate shell that owns #Parler, in late 2018. Per Malofeev, it is a “conservative” version of Twitter. CEO JOHN MATZE was fired Jan 29, 2021 and replaced with CNP member MARK MECKLER. businessinsider.com/parler-far-rig…
26/According to author @anelsona CNP strategies heading into 2020 were 1) Push R votes, suppress D votes, 2) incite nationwide COVID lockdown protests, 3) spread COVID disinformation. As early as Feb 2020, they chose “denial” to handle any electoral loss.
29/And longtime CNP member STEVE BANNON had foreknowledge of the events of Jan 6, pushing folks to participate. “All hell is going to break loose tomorrow,” he said.
30/FLYNN famously made a video asking people to take a Q oauth on July 4, 2020. He repeatedly praised and amplified QAnon promoter TracyBeanz; even promoting her GoFundMe. He is deeply enmeshed in Q.
32/Of course, we know how January 6 went. Many CNP members were directly involved. BRENT BOZELL IV, son of longtime CNP member BRENT BOZELL III, was on the Senate floor and directed C-SPAN’s camera at the floor. washingtonpost.com/local/legal-is…
33/Several other CNP were involved in Jan 6: CHARLIE KIRK, AMY KREMER, KYLIE KREMER (who took out the permit for the Ellipse), SCOTT MAGILL (Veterans In Defense of Liberty; Bikers for Trump). And more.
34/CNP and Western Goals were funded by the HUNT brothers, who famously tried to corner the silver market in 1980 believing the US’ departure from the “gold standard” was a fatal mistake. They divested from cash into real estate and precious metals.
35/Many other conservatives have a religious devotion to the gold standard. The Koch brothers were followers of Robert LeFevre, who along with other libertarians believed that fiat currency was a kind of “molestation.”
36/By “molestation,” LeFevre means any violation of one's will by another. People obsessed with the gold standard are often convinced others, usually Jewish central bankers, are “taking what’s theirs.” “Communist” ideology triggers them viscerally.
37/The QAnon version of the ancient blood libel myth takes this idea of “molestation” and makes it literal — by saying that using “fake” fiat currency is literally comparable to child sexual abuse and trafficking. This is of course nonsense. adl.org/education/reso…
38/This might seem remarkable if the same people hadn’t tried this before, for the same reason, and in the same way.
In 1933, a group of wealthy bankers and business leaders approached the popular respected Gen. Smedley Butler asking him to stage a coup. npr.org/2012/02/12/145…
39/They were hysterical about Roosevelt taking the country off the gold standard to fund the New Deal.
They proposed Butler would raise an army of 500,000 veterans as “super soldiers” who would siege Washington, and capture Roosevelt. bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/b0…
40/Roosevelt could either allow Butler to become “Secretary of General Affairs” and restore the gold standard — or he would be killed.
They cited Roosevelt’s poor health and believed the "dumb American people" would agree to a “shadow president.”
41/Many notable individuals and companies were reportedly behind the scheme, including leaders of DuPont, JP Morgan, US Steel, General Motors, Standard Oil, Colgate, Heinz Foods, Chase National Bank, and Goodyear Tire.
42/BUTLER had second thoughts and exposed the plot. Congress initiated the McCormick-Dickstein committee, which concluded the plot was real, even if not very far along. Media outlets poo-pooed it as a hoax and a joke, making fun of Butler.
43/In fact, if it had been as well-explored as it should have been, very powerful people would have gone to jail for treason and sedition. But instead they deflected attention and made it into a joke.
44/But the events of Jan 6 are anything but a joke. If we are to keep this from happening again, we need to address this at its root, and bring CNP and its broader network to justice, Steve Bannon, Roger Stone, Ali Alexander, etc under the RICO statutes.
45/Lastly, some conclusions: it was never about Russian interference vs. domestic extremism.
It’s GLOBAL extremism and gangsterism — that includes Russia.
Democracies everywhere are fighting fascistic forces that span the globe. They must be stopped and contained.
46/When anti-communists get bored with fighting external enemies, they fight their fellow countrymen.
In the US, they have conflated the Democratic Party with communism, which is flat out nonsense. And they are aligned with Falun Gong to fight CCP which genuinely deserves scorn.
47/Today, Bitcoin (which functions like digital gold) has assumed the position of gold for many gold standard fetishists. We see echoes of past gold-motivated actions in cryptocurrency. Recent spikes, along with high monetary supply feel a lot like 1933.
48/We’re re-living history. Foster Gamble, heir to the Proctor+Gamble fortune, has repackaged the “molestation” mythology, as an insane anti-Semitic film series that was pushed by many prominent QAnon figures.
49/And this is also about oil, Russia’s supply of it, and climate change. MCFARLANE noted that much of their oil is available in the arctic shelf. Some of this may ONLY be accessible IF climate change advances. We must end our dependence on oil.
50/And this is also a war over intelligence gathering, and how it’s used. FLYNN and many in his circle are at odds with the CIA and think it is corrupt.
51/The WikiLeaks Vault 7 Password was 'I Will Splinter the CIA Into a Thousand Pieces' – an apocryphal JFK quote, amplified by the Q community. Like SINGLAUB, many in Flynn’s orbit disdain modern CIA leadership.
52/Until the Church Committee reforms, CIA was used partly as an all-powerful intel agency by right leaning actors to “fight communism” globally. Hamstrung as it is now, old school OSS/CIA types see it as “weak” and not up for the challenge.
53/There is more to this story. I’ve omitted some things we can revisit later.
But it is vitally important that Americans and the world understand the true nature of this networked, fascist threat to democracies worldwide. It needs to be exposed and it needs to stop NOW.
54/On Jan 23, 2020, SINGLAUB (who is alive, age 99) wrote a letter to AG BARR asking him to drop all charges against FLYNN. Singlaub was of course familiar with Barr, as he had administered the pardon for MCFARLANE.
55/And a final fun fact? LARRY MCDONALD’s old district in Georgia (correcting for redistricting since) is now represented by QAnon believer MARJORIE TAYLOR GREENE.
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And in case you missed my last thread documenting the long line of former disaffected military and intelligence personnel who had been promoting these lies, please check it out here:
“Meet the tech mogul who's fathered over 100 kids in 12 countries and is still donating sperm to spread 'high quality' genetic material” dailymail.co.uk/health/article…
Cambridge Analytica funder Robert Mercer was the protege of extreme white supremacist Revilo Oliver. nature.com/articles/s4159…
1. This platform is an instrument of information warfare.
2. Investors include Joe Lonsdale (8VC), Saudi Prince Alwaleed bin Talal bin Abdulaziz, Qatar, and Jack Dorsey.
3. All of them have an interest in challenging the US dollar.
4. Lonsdale employs the children of two sanctioned Russian Oligarchs: Denis Aven (Petr Aven) and Jack Moshkovich (Vadim Moshkovich).
5. Lonsdale created Elon's "America PAC," which is funneling money to supporting Trump's election.
6. Lonsdale was a cofounder of Palantir, with Peter Thiel.
7. This platform will implode if Trump doesn't win and if Musk is unsuccessful in crashing the dollar via debt default.
The Elon Musk show is likely to conclude in the first half of 2025, if his all-in bet on chaos doesn't pan out. The American people are done with chaos and want a return to reality — to sanity, to kindness, to productivity. Onward!
Filing by @SilvermanJacob forces court to reveal full X investor list, adding new details to rough information already known. washingtonpost.com/technology/202…
Lonsdale's 8VC employing children of sanctioned Russian oligarchs while also funding companies with US + NATO defense contracts. archive.ph/qklT2
As someone present here in Chicago, the “protests” are basically a non-factor for the tens of thousands attending the DNC. TV news and social media are amplifying them to create noise. Tune it out.
Amplified by a network of bad actors... who are, in fact, the usual suspects, and have been at this kind of rage-farming for years. Block all these accounts.
The “protests” are heavily populated with CCP-backed Code Pink and “Party for Socialism and Liberation” (PSL) activists. This is heavily inorganic and made for Fox News and trash social media accounts.
2. Tech accelerationists seek to replace democratic government with technology.
3. They give very little thought, if any, to the well-being, or voice, of elderly or marginalized people — which is fundamentally anti-democratic.
4. They seek to capture both parties to use the mechanisms of government to advance their agenda — which includes dismantling the government.
5. They see dismantling government as a necessary struggle to remove barriers to innovation.
6. They are happily aligned with hostile foreign powers who also want to dismantle and disempower the US government.
7. The way to defeat Musk, Thiel, Putin, and Trump is to relentlessly undermine them, and expose their agenda.
Politics is important, but this is a program of capture of both parties. Fight crypto capture wherever it turns up. These threats will persist until they are understood and neutralized. Onward!
A narrow win for the bad guys... by 39 votes, for a Democratic candidate captured with crypto cash. coindesk.com/policy/2024/08…
Expect efforts to replace democracy with crap polls.
«[Musk] really doesn’t like the US government, the SEC, and our politicians, and all things considered, he’d probably prefer to replace all of it with an app — call it “X,” the everything app.»
Arriving this morning in Chicago, I reflect back on some of the work I've done on the history of what happened here in 1968.
That history has mostly been told as an organic popular uprising. But in fact, it was in some ways carefully engineered. Beginning in 1967, several groups, including Students for a Democratic Society and the Institute for Policy Studies convened multiple planning sessions.
Last fall I had the chance to speak with Arthur Waskow (now 89) who along with former Goldwater speechwriter Karl Hess conceived of Grant Park as a kind of “theater,” where the image of a mass gathering of peaceful “youth” would be contrasted with Mayor Richard Daley’s militaristic police force.
They knew that this made-for-TV spectacle would be a study in contrasts, and would produce the kind of anti-establishment sentiments that would alter public perceptions. They were also keenly aware of the possibility of “agents provocateurs” who may become violent. While they hoped such violence would not occur, they acknowledged the possibility that it might.
The USSR was also extremely supportive of the US anti-war movement, as it advanced, through reflexive control, their “Russkiy Mir (peace/world)” policy agenda, without the use of force. While the peace movement certainly had organic roots within the baby boom generation’s reaction against the Vietnam War, it also received significant support from the Soviets — even as they may not have always realized it.
This week, we have some similar dynamics in play, though the “theater” is now very different. While there are outside groups helping to promote anti-Israel protests, there also significant organic support. And Chicago is a different place from what it was in 1968, with a Black mayor; there is also good situational awareness, and deep preparation.
History doesn’t repeat, but it often rhymes. A repeat of 1968 is unlikely. But understanding the lessons from 1968 more deeply, which is just becoming possible as archival resources become more available, is useful for understanding our present moment and how we got here.
This article on the Institute for Policy Studies offers some fascinating insights on what was going on with them in 1967, prior to the '68 convention. cia.gov/readingroom/do…
Karl Hess, who with Waskow planned much of the '68 happenings, walked the line between libertarian and left-wing activism. Some might describe it as "red/brown" in orientation. reason.com/2020/04/10/kar…
1. Removing Putin from power will disempower Musk, Trump, and the network of autocrats that fuels them.
2. It is not sufficient to only remove Putin from power; he must be defeated so decisively that the Russian people cannot tolerate any aligned successor.
3. The conflict in the Middle East will continue as long as Putin (or a successor) is in power and is an unlimited source of leverage for him to stoke conflict in the West.
4. If we are serious about Ukrainian sovereignty, they must have all of the resources they need to win decisively, and permission to use them.
5. Putin's gambit is a test of Western will, and already we see AfD's ascendance in Germany is testing that will.
6. Musk will be a significant factor in election denialism in the United States, and we should anticipate that.
7. Americans deserve answers as to why Elon Musk hasn't been brought to heel, and President Biden and VP Harris should address it; every day they don't, Americans lose confidence.
There is no middle ground with this conflict, which is total, and global in scope. Ukraine, Israel, Musk, Bitcoin vs. the dollar, all represent one unitary conflict and we must realize their inseparability. Onward!
Letter from Generals Breedlove and Hodges (et al) to President Biden on the necessity of Ukrainian victory. politico.com/f/?id=00000191…
This paper, which is deeply flawed, offers some insights into what role Bitcoin cultists see for it in terms of projection of power, not only as currency tech but as cyber tech. This is the genre of stuff Trump is being told to support. ia600505.us.archive.org/19/items/softw…