Note: Yes, I’m going to start skipping days but this one was easy and is ready to go…
I don’t follow Twitter (or even really know what it is) or InstaGram and I don’t know what a hash tag does and I keep away from Facebook (I regret having started a page) and anything that is trending. The list of things I stay away from is long; I can’t even name most of them. This is an attempt to cut down on the noise. (This does result in my missing stuff, like when I finally viewed CNN after four years and was shocked by what I saw. It’s a trade-off.)
These are all screen grabs from the vid I analyze…
But several of you have asked me about Qanon so I’ll give you my provisional take. I went to Youtube and viewed the Q-related video with the most hits right now (350,000), figuring the vid was probably either by Q or by those close to him/her/it (yes, Q might be an A.I. algorithm).
Being a filmmaker and confident that I can spot most ops via the ‘language’ used (words and images), I gave ‘Qanon; You Are Witnessing The Largest Mass Treason Event In History’ a careful look. It’s less than 5 minutes and worth it if you’re interested in Q.
I’ll share the notes I made while viewing, with explanations in [brackets]:
…this vid has better/slicker graphics than I’m capable of [I look for any signs of ‘professionalism’]… good ‘voice’ [high quality sound, the tenor effective, nice modulated echo, no stutters, etc. This is professionally written and edited audio]… obvious NLP in the mix of words and images [‘NLP’ can also mean ‘good at getting across the message’ like I hope I did in Water Time; this is a matter of judgment… are they trying to ‘slip in’ an agenda-driven message different from the obvious? This one has all the signs.]
…corrupt pols and celebs [I’m looking at] while the calming yet masculine voice tells me they are corrupt]… I’m waiting for actual new information… [At about 1:20 the voice over says, ‘…an NSA intelligence operation that we call Q’… Mmmm… is this a slip?… if not, talk about ‘revelation of the method’!]
More bad guys, a way of getting us pissed.
… now he’s telling me that ‘patriots in the military took back power in 2016 with the election of Trump [is this true? At best it’s a ‘bald assertion’ and anyway, do we want a country led by the military? Not me. Then why is he telling me this? Is this NLP preparing me for martial law? Why should I trust the Military? Is this not a helluva good question?]… also notice that Trump’s two year ‘gutting’ op ‘was to include (my emphasis) the corrupt FBI, CIA, and Justice Department’… was to means it never happened, right?
… now telling me ‘they’ (Trump and his military allies?) got to work dismantling the ‘secret shadow deep state’ [nice string of buzz words but is it true? Look at who Trump appointed for chrissakes!!]… now it’s hitting on the MSM and how bad they are [tell me some news!]… yes, the MSM is bad but that doesn’t mean Q is any different, does it? The NLP here is to get us nodding in agreement. Might be harmless, but maybe not…
…look at all those folksy folks in Q t-shirts, right out of the old T-party… pastoral images after violence [more NLP but I’m not liking it and am asking myself ‘Where is some actual information?]
Folksy folks are behind this!
…now Trump directly associated with Q [an image at a rally]…
…okay, maybe some info now… telling me that Trump is responsible for ‘an unprecedented number of sealed indictments’… (45,000)…which are ‘in preparation for a mass arrest event’… [I seem to recall Obama was preparing to get us out of foreign wars]… my bullshit meter is near the red… I don’t want to know what Trump is preparing to do… and besides, why are the indictments sealed? If I was indicted would it be sealed?
Addendum: Are you aware of what it means when you hear what a president is going to do?
Even better: Folksy folks with tits!
… now telling me it’s time to ‘research for yourself’ [Okay, but give me information]… then…okay, here it comes… ‘an unprecedented list of corrupt CEOs who have recently been removed from their posts’… a lot of unprecedented stuff… plus now an actual list of names on the screen… okay…
Here I paused and checked the vid’s description for a link to the list. Not there. (In fact, no links to any evidence.) The closest they came was a very quick flash of a URL; ‘qmap.pub’… let’s go there… it’s apparently an archive of all Q’s communications with us… talk about too much stuff! I don’t even know where to start. Is this the intention? But okay, I’m looking for the ‘List of corrupt CEOs that have been removed from their posts’ by Trump and his military cohorts. No such link.
The list of names in the video flashes by too quickly so I freeze frame and do a screen shot. I then start checking the names via web searches plus the company name given, to see if I’m being bullshitted.
Qanon = Trump. Get it?
Notice the phraseology the video uses: The corrupt CEOs ‘have been removed’, as in fired or forced to resign or retire. Well, for those with the patience, at the bottom of this post I’m pasting in the results of my hour or so checking the ‘corrupt CEOs that were removed’…
In brief, the list was indeed of recently retired or resigned officials (some CEOs but many were not), but most did not appear to have been removed, not at all, and many if not most were from companies that have nothing to do with government, the military, the media, and so forth (one guy ran a YMCA).
It appears that what the filmmaker did was compile a list of anyone of any importance in any big company that either resigned or retired recently. In the vast majority of cases no evidence is to be found that they were forced to do anything, let alone by the Trump Team. I’m not wild about accusations of corruption (naming names) with no evidence. And even less wild about lists with no citation re its provenance.
The list of ‘corrupt CEOs that Trump ‘forced out.’ Really? And how about some details? None to be found.
The video finishes up telling us that ‘There is hope’ (sound familiar as in ‘Hope & Change’?) while flashing more pastoral images, including one reminiscent of the shot at the end of Gladiator wherein Maximus drags his hand through the Wheat of Heaven (an iconic image and, as used in the video, NLP at its subtlest and most effective).
This was pretty much all I needed to know about this Q-pitch, at least for now. A slick, NLP-laden commercial that ended up providing me with bald assertions and misleading if not completely false information.
What do I think of Q? Provisionally, Q is another attempt at dividing/confusing/distracting us, plus muddying the waters. It is probably exactly what they say it is: ‘An NSA intelligence operation.’
Yes, I know the video is not Q, but it is a pitch for Q, much like you’d see around election time. All that was missing was a ‘I approved this message’ blurb from Q him/her/itself.
Remember Gladiator? All kinds of NLP going on here.
I hope this provides a hint as to how you might go about assessing the crapola you are bombarded with: find actual information in the crapola and check to see if it’s true. If not, or if there’s no information to check, you’ve probably found still another disinfo op.
Allan
If you’re going to disagree with me in Comments, fine, but try to provide verifiable information to back up your point. Also be advised that your comment may not appear immediately. I might be walking Gus or otherwise off-line and unable to approve it as fast as you’d like.
As usual, that Q is most likely a LH/disinfo op does not mean you should not pay attention to the information. I’m only saying you should really pay attention. (Or maybe burn your limited time on earth elsewhere.)
A ‘Hope and Change’ image. Work for you?
Below are the notes I made in my searches of ‘corrupt CEOs.’ Generally, I’d copy-paste the most relevant blurb from the most relevant link and make notes. I also scanned the google-pages for anything saying so-and-so was corrupt or forced to do something. I did not check everyone who flashed by on the screen; this is a representative sampling:
. Gary Starr, left, and Dr. Andrew Bachman have both left LeafLine Labs, one of two Minnesota companies chosen to grow and process medical marijuana. Starr, the chief medical officer at LeafLine, resigned last fall. Bachman departed as of this week, the company said Thursday, May 10, 2018. (Pioneer Press: Scott Takushi)
Kellogg Company CEO John Bryant will step down next week after seven years at the helm of the cereal and snack maker.
The guy at Vanity Fair quit. So what? (These grabs are no longer from the video.)
Marni Walden, Verizon’s executive vp and president of global media, says that she made the decision to depart the company once it became clear that she was not in the running to replace CEO Lowell McAdam.
naples ymca paul thein
lmi aerospace dan korte — buy out
Lotter’s departure marks the latest staff shake-up for Pence, who has avoided much of the infighting and leaking that has plagued the White House. Pence recently replaced his chief of staff, Josh Pitcock, with longtime political aide Nick Ayers.
For five months, Seattle Mayor Ed Murray rejected calls for his resignation amid allegations he sexually abused teens decades before entering politics. [Did Trump and co. finger him? apparently not.)
Phil Veal, the chief executive of Rangatira Investments, which owns two of the country’s most iconic attractions, has resigned and will leave his role in November.
What does this YMCA guy have to do with anything?
Rangatira owns Auckland’s Rainbow’s End and Rotorua’s Polynesian Spa. It is the second high profile resignation in six weeks from the group with Rainbow’s End chief executive Chris Deere stepping down in August.
Sasser, who had led the company as CEO for 13 years, will move to executive chairman of the board. Sasser started at Dollar Tree in 1999 and was promoted to president and operating chief in 2001. In 2004, he assumed the CEO role.
EDINBURGH — KPMG South Africa CEO Trevor Hoolehas consistently refused to answer questions about the role of KPMG in state capture. When he does, he poin
Following the conclusion of the search for a suitable foreign strategic partner for Proton Holdings Bhd., DRB-HICOM Berhad (DRB-HICOM) and Zhejiang Geely Holding Group (Geely Holding) are working towards completion of this corporate transaction which is expected to materialise very soon. At the same time, DRB-HICOM announced the departure of Dato’ Ahmad Fuaad Kenali as the Chief Executive Officer of PHB effective 30 September 2017.
PLAINFIELD – Plainfield Fire Chief Ralph Wells, the father of a department captain charged with sexually assaulting a 17-year-old cadet, stepped down from his position on Wednesday, officials said.
Any indication that Trump’s ‘gutting’ of the Deep State is at work here?
Laureate Education CEO Douglas Becker, who founded the Baltimore company in 1999, will step down in Jan. 1 as part of an executive transition plan.
Becker, who has been Laureate’s only CEO, will remain non-executive chairman of the for-profit network of colleges. He will also step down as president.
On the last day of the VELUX Group’s strategy conference, held every four years, Chairman Søren Bjerre-Nielsen announced to the 120 members of the company’s global management that, after 17 years as CEO for VELUX A/S, Jørgen Tang-Jensen is to retire at the end of 2017. He will be succeeded by 52-year-old David Briggs from the UK, who has worked in the Group since 1991.
Macquarie Infrastructure Corp director James Hooke and fellow board members have survived a protest vote by a minority of shareholders at a tense annual company meeting in New York.
Michael Morrell, former deputy director (and acting director) of the Central Intelligence Service, on Thursday resigned as a non-resident senior fellow at the Belfer Center of the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University for its hiring of Chelsea Manning, the controversial former U.S. Army soldier who was convicted by court martial in 2013 for disclosing classified information to WikiLeaks.
Sport–Tech Construction is the premier construction and maintenance firm in New York, Connecticut and New Jersey for any type of athletic field and sports court …
Missing: penrose | Must include: penrose
Skanska’s President and CEO Johan Karlström has notified the Skanska AB Board of Directors that he wishes to step down. He will remain President and CEO until Skanska’s Annual General Meeting, April 13 2018, when he will also step down from the Board of Skanska AB. He will serve as Senior advisor until January 2019. construction
Mike Foley, who has served as CEO of Zurich North America since 2008, joined Zurich in 2006 as North America’s Chief Operating Officer. During his tenure leading Zurich’s largest business unit, Mr. Foley successfully drove the transformation of the region’s technical capabilities, refined its performance management processes, built its predictive analytics capabilities and streamlined its operating model. Many of the initiatives he led became best practices for Zurich’s global operations. Building on this impressive record, Mr. Foley is expected to focus his extensive industry knowledge, operational expertise and strategic leadership skills on the rapidly evolving insuretech market. Zurich will remain connected to Mr. Foley through his participation on several of Zurich’s U.S. boards, as well as possible collaboration in his future ventures.
After nearly 15 years at the helm of Catholic Health, Joe McDonald, the health system’s longest tenured president & CEO, has announced plans to retire. While an exact timetable has not been set, McDonald plans to remain with the system to help transition his successor, which is expected during the first quarter of 2018. A committee, including representatives of Catholic Health’s Corporate Members, Sponsors, Board of Directors and Medical Staff, is leading the search process for a new president & CEO.
Washington state CIO Michael Cockrill will depart government service on Oct. 20 to take a position in the private sector, Gov. Jay Inslee has announced in a press release.
Dudley-Eshbach “will serve as a special advisor to the University during a sabbatical year which begins July 1, 2018” as per an agreement between the University System of Maryland chancellor and regents, and herself, according to a press release.
Atlantic Petroleum’s Ben Arabo has tendered his resignation as CEO of Atlantic Petroleum, the company said on Sept. 29. Arabo will leave the company to take up a Faroe Islands based post, but will remain in place as CEO until Dec. 1.
I scanned maybe 20 more without notating or pasting. Enough is enough. Qanon is deception.
Hi Alan, I’m a long time follower and enjoy your posts and you tube channel. I agree with a large percentage of your analysis. However, I believe you’ve made a mistake regarding Q. Q does not make videos. All his posts can be found at qanon.pub I have no idea what video you watched, but it is not Q. In fact, Q has criticized those trying to make money off his posts. This criticism forced former Q supporters Alex Jones and Jerome Corsi to turn on Q. There are 1,931 total Q posts. Q uses the socratic method giving questions leading readers to search for answers themselves through research and logic. There’s no proof that the video you watched is directly linked to Q. It’s someone’s opinion. Why are you analyzing a video when you have the actual Q posts available? I suggest starting at the beginning an reading them with an open mind. If you still believe Q is a psyops after analyzing the posts, so be it. That is the only way to properly analyze Q. Thanks for reading my comments.
I thought I made it clear why I did it that way (respond to a video) rather than pouring through every (or most) Q posts. i have limited time and I believe Q is another way of dividing us and distracting us (wasting our time!). Btw, the fact that Q uses a Q & A motif is one indication that he/she/it may be an A.I. algorithm being beta tested by NSA or whomever (the video outright mentions Q as ‘…an NSA intelligence operation’!).
The video was professionally done and laden with NLP techniques. If you look at that guy’s channel you will find another continuing psy op, IMO. Feel free to disagree, of course, but analyzing a slick ‘pro Q’ ‘commercial’ is certainly a way to judge if there is an agenda going on. I do make it clear what I was doing and right at the end:
Yes, I know the video is not Q, but it is a pitch for Q, much like you’d see around election time. All that was missing was a ‘I approved this message’ blurb from Q him/her/itself.’
Good stuff Big Al! I wonder what your impression of Julian Assange and Wikileaks is.
As I’ve said, both are psy ops, based on both supporting the official story of 9/11: this is a basic litmus test we all should use, IMO.
Not only that, but those exposing 9/11 as a fraud do it fraudulently themselves! For example, James Corbett. Thanks to your open letter to him…
http://blog.banditobooks.com/an-open-letter-to-james-corbett/
I didn’t intend to go to the top on this. It was meant to follow X’s post below but not directly from reply . Also the content was doubled. Not my fault but I did cancel my first try of the identical post because I had inadvertently hit reply to M. That may have done it. By itself on top it’s a distraction from the Q question. Sorry, that was my fault. Not so used to this format.
BTW the pic marked Qanon = Trump. Get it? looks like another ridiculous paste-up.
No worries. I know the feeling. Just getting a handle on dealing with comments is new to me. For what it’s worth (and as I say elsewhere), it’s great to actually see that smart people are paying attention here.
Deep into the woods here and is entirely a long shot, but could Q be a reference to James Bond’s ‘Q’? I dunno, but at least it’s entertaining to ponder this one. Made me giggle.
From Wikipedia:
Q is a fictional character in the James Bond films and film novelisations. Q (standing for Quartermaster as well as a reference to the deceptive Q-ships) is a job title, unlike M, which is a cypher for the character’s name. He is the head of Q Branch (or later Q Division), the fictional research and development division of the British Secret Service.
the Gullwing clip is crazy!
Anyone who missed it should go back and check it out.
Of course Q is a psy op and it’s opposition MSM is a psy op. The question is which psy op is being more truthful? It looks like your investigation proved that the folks who Q listed actually did resign or retire. Some for nefarious reasons. Are they connected? Or just ordinary folks who retired and resigned and are used to boost belief in Q’s psy op?
To me the biggest red flag is that Q says the government is going back to the people (of the people, for the people). What group of billionaires or multi national corporations are going to allow that?
Please to meet you won’t you guess my name.
Good article(s) http://augenguy.blogspot.com/2018/07/the-gospel-according-to-q.html
I didn’t want to muddy the waters further by including this in the post, but this fellow Quinn Michaels has an interesting take on Qanon and A.I. in general. His stuff is above me but I welcome your input. Is he full of it? Is he a psy op? I dunno. Here he is:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F4ihlWZYMlE
Having viewed some more recent Quinn-vids, I recommend you all spend your research time elsewhere. I dunno what he is but his rambling is a time-burner.
I agree, Allan. Q is a LH. My take on all of this is if it is huge – if there are a ton of backers, if it is marketed to the masses, then stay away from it. Twitter, Facebook (spacebook), and SMART anything – STAY AWAY FROM IT. We already KNOW there is an Agenda for a one world order. The PTB are leveling the Playing Field. Two books helped open my eyes – no, three: None Dare Call it Conspiracy, The Marketing of Evil, and How Evil Works.
Allan, I watched your Water Time dvd years ago. It propelled me into a new level in my thirst for Truth and to finally acknowledge and trust my intuition. For this, I thank you!
Very clear analysis with feeling; thank you. The depth of your insight & research corresponds to the depth that resounded in my gut when this ‘Q-stuff’ started …… the sucking of lies combined with the magnetic pull to ‘believe’.
Two “tells” that immediately trigger my bullshit meter: 1. The Savior Meme…some powerful force of altruistic do-gooders is going to come to our rescue (often happening behind the scenes, or just around the corner). This is a cultural program pounder into most of us from birth in myriad overt and subtle ways. 2. Said meme gets widespread attention. Virtually nothing in the trending realm is ever truly spontaneous nor random. Social engineering is an ancient, ubiquitous and uber sophisticated practice.
The Savior motif — “They” are coming to save us — is just that, a meme, a story motif or trope, an emotional hook.
The Evil Overlord — “They” are out to Get us — is just as much a story motif, an emotional hook.
We humans are just rational enough to imagine that we are primarily rational; we are (far!) more terrified by the idea that we’re just bumbling along than we are by the idea that They are uber-sophisticatedly building the empire of coordinated evil.
I call it (clumsily) the “Better an Evil Overlord than No Overlord” theme. The power to pull off a marvelously subtle and complex plan, however evil, implies the power to pull off a good one, too, if only we would. Maybe we need to believe that, as inspiration.
Blindly buying into all that Q has shared is no different than gobbling up the evening NBC news. Regardless of original intent, he/she/it/xi has led a large number of people to research and educate themselves. We need more of that.
When I heard about Q I was guilty of responding with an eye roll rather than investigation. A powerful insider who’s trying to save humanity from evil forces? Wow–just what we were all longing to hear! And all the media is suddenly talking about it–it must be real! LOL.
Thanks for looking into this. I haven’t heard a single media figure promoting Q who has done the same. Go figure.
Q has censored 9/11. This observation is sufficient to doubt anything it claims that is more complex than the resemblance between the video records of Building 7’s destruction and of a controlled demolition.
At best, Q is too dumb to understand the interest and importance of Building 7 as a teaching tool. At worst, it is another weapon of mass distraction. Thank you, Allan, for this peek that tilts toward the latter.
Love,
I didn’t know this. Yes, a failure to mention 9/11 in all those posts is a dead giveaway. Thanks for the info!
Michael Cohen’s lawyer Lanny Davis said on Morning Joe MSNBC(I know BS) this AM something along the lines that his client came to believe Trump is intentionally destroying democracy….Look up the clip…I don’t have the time now, but it is no surprise to hear it.
It’s not Trump who is ‘out to do’ anything. It’s the power structure who put him in place. I tried to make this obvious…
Interesting take Allan.Be well, T
I’m beginning to believe Trump was installed to destroy the shredded remnants of the American Presidency, and “Q” is a psy-op by the people who are running him.
Next: Corporate Fascism completes it’s takeover.
A deception can be considered as a football match with spectators on both sides, for team deceived and team undeceived.
Sometimes, the purpose is not deception, but distraction – both sides are watching the game, and thus both sides have been distracted.
If enough distractions (deceptions or not) are created, the masses have insufficient time to figure out where they should be focussing their attention.
You have to step back, you have to work out a holistic approach to figure out what’s going on in the world – even if all the world’s a stage.
Do you mean i shouldn’t have exposed Q as a likely psy op?
Allan,
Expose psyops, deceptions, frauds, hoaxes, as much as you want.
The problem is that ‘the big question’ must also be answered, i.e. “Why?”
I’m just saying that there are so many of the above (deliberately so, to exhaust the energy budget of the truth seeker) that you may neglect the ‘Why’, let alone being able to step back and observe Earth (and all upon it), as if a god, to obtain a holistic perspective.
In other words, you have to make some attempt to explore the entire rabbit warren (even if on a cursory basis), rather than getting comfortable in one or two niches. Once you’ve done that, you have a chance of getting the bigger picture – which is necessary to understand ‘Why’.
I dunno. The ‘bigger picture’ can only be ‘seen’ via a cause-and-effect analysis of how things work on a detailed level. I think I made it clear what the ‘bigger picture’ of Q is (right at the end). ‘Why’ cannot be understood without ‘How’.
(This comment is derived from X’s above.)(Thanks Allan for the opportunity to fix the problem)
You have to step back so that no single pixel of the picture can persist as an object that consumes too much space in the scope of consideration at the expense of necessary comprehension. But when it comes to the complexity of all that demands our knowing, many are not yet deconditioned enough from the two-team conditioning of two-team sports to see the usual multitude of facets comprised by a geometrical model that favors no single polarity set over another, as long as other related sets are equally valid. For example, the conflict over opposition to abortion on demand versus support for it, cannot subsist without the context that includes other necessary considerations of moral complexity that are not directly bearing on the dispute. What is known as polarization is a fight in a context free arena. The two-team sport conditioning tends to bring all moral disputes onto a game level of winning and losing. The desire to win may come with reticence knowing that winning will inflict pain on the loser, and the game tinged battle is far from being any fun. The awareness that the unborn are part of the argument breaks the spell of two-team sport because it turns out there is no conditioning that includes a third team.
The bipartisan system of Politics is a prime example of two-team conditioning where complexity is governed by conventional means and conventional ascription of qualities onto the separate planks of the party platforms, and then the task is to locate any principle whatsoever that was used to guide those allocations. Principle versus convention may be the most salient takeaway here. To insist that the left and right of party affiliation is somehow discernibly different from each other when the ruling context does not include the natural clash between state prerogative/authority and free rights of free individuals. When anarchy or panarchy are not definitively located according to principle on the political spectrum, by what principle would anyone locate them on same? I mean, where would anyone put it? And why?
nice work here Allan. Q is most definitely bullshit. It was crazy how big it got though, scary. I think whoever did it whether is was their intention or not did a fantastic job spreading around more disinfo, more dis trust, more confusion, more more more. In fact I’d say this was the best job yet of fracturing whatever you’d call the ” truth ” community.
nice work here Allen. Q is most definitely bullshit. It was crazy how big it got though, scary. I think whoever did it whether is was their intention or not did a fantastic job spreading around more disinfo, more dis trust, more confusion, more more more. In fact I’d say this was the best job yet of fracturing whatever you’d call the ” truth ” community.
check out Titus Frost on YouTube, I think these guys basically have it right with Q.