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So let’s talk about Parler. Where did it come from? Founder John Matze met his now wife, Alina Mukhutdinova, in May 15, 2016 in Las Vegas. Alina is from Kazan, Russia. She was on a two week road trip “vacation” across the USA with a friend.
THREAD: QAnon was enabled in part by former military and intelligence professionals "gone wild." They lent credibility to the myth and laundered QAnon messaging to the public, sometimes via E-list "influencers." Here are some of the key personnel.
Whatever it is you think the Trump document theft is about, I assure you it’s several orders of magnitude worse. And it wasn’t even really about money, or even betraying the country, though he has; much bigger, much worse. Stay tuned, it’s beyond imagination.
It’s time for us to come to grips with the fact that the Snowden, Greenwald, Assange ops were all part of a years-long Russia-supported effort to upend the West.
Some day a book is going to detail all of the grim details Biden has been dealing with on a day to day basis this last 18 months, and we are going to find out he’s been shouldering a Herculean load. Worth taking a moment to appreciate the calm he is keeping in a desperate storm.
But it doesn’t add up. Non-descript tech bro randomly meets ostensible Russian honeypot, travels to Russia, marries her, then returns to US to start a whacko social network with explicit political aims, in partnership with Russia aligned ops? Uh, ok.
Also, a preliminary analysis of the first several thousand accounts on Parler shows that it is the usual Russia aligned operatives that we in this space have tracked for years. This is a large scale op aligned with Russian interests.
1/Putin’s speech today is loaded with MAGA talking points. It should be obvious now, even to the thickest American parochial commentators, that MAGA, Trump, and Putin are a single phenomenon with one agenda: a total global realignment away from democracy towards fascism.
I believe the Twitter purchase was an act of war and intentional sabotage. Former employees, or others who have information regarding this, may contact me via Signal at +1-410-570-5739. Thanks.
This is not some kind of free-speech tech dudebros just tryna let people do their thing. This is a calculated political and economic attack on US interests and we should treat it accordingly. The fact that it sucks makes that easier. But it may get better.
Oh, and one more thing. It seems NDMASCENDANT LLC was filed by Greenberg Traurig, LLP. If that sounds familiar it’s because it’s Rudy Giuliani’s former firm. He was traveling in Russia and the region at the time Parler was founded in late 2018.
My hope is that when reporters like
@MattBinder
set out to write lengthy “what you need to know” pieces like this one, they go a little deeper and ask basic structural questions. Like where the f*ck would Dan Bongino get enough money to fund this?!?
2/MICHAEL T. FLYNN is at the very center of the Q operation. As a US Army Lt. General and as former head of the Defense Intelligence Agency, he has extensive knowledge of military/intel ops and the mechanics of insurgency. He also deeply resents his treatment by USG – a theme.
Because in the end the only thing standing between us and calculated societal and economic attacks is our own naïveté. We can do better. Reporters, hit me up if you want to know more.
I believe that
@TechCrunch
,
@theinformation
@theverge
and other outlets that cover this realm need to dig in and get to the bottom of this. Parler is the
#1
app in the App Store and has been off and on for months. It sucks, but it’s growing.
🚨The bad takes about Musk, Dorsey, and Bluesky were just too much. So I wrote up this Q+A as an explainer about what's going on. It's much deeper and more complex than people realize. Please take the time to read and comprehend. 🙏
1/There are people who are genuinely trying to talk intelligently about cryptocurrencies, but can’t because they don’t have historical background. This thread tries to correct that by suggesting required reading. First, it’s necessary to know what problem it attempts to solve.
1/Multiple people who know him personally have told me RFK Jr. is an unhinged, dangerous, and unethical person.
Roger Stone, Mike Flynn, Jack Dorsey and Elon Musk are pushing him like he’s the coolest thing around. This should be cause for significant concern.
Additionally, flooding the zone with shit noise about the company’s ownership would seem to be a way of deflecting attention away from valid questions about that exact question. Who does own it? Where is the money, tech talent and infrastructure coming from? Follow the money.
The company seems to like to promote the Epoch Times. Epoch Times is owned by Falun Gong, and aligned with Steve Bannon’s buddy Guo Wengui. They may also have an interest in Parler’s trajectory and finances. We don’t know. Again, what’s NDMASCENDANT LLC?
As the company grew in 2019, they turned to Jesse Benton, a political operative who had worked with Ron Paul, Rand Paul, and Mitch McConnell. Benton was indicted and found guilty of election finance violations. Benton is married to Ron Paul’s granddaughter Valori Pyeatt.
We don’t begrudge this couple a happy productive life in the good ol’ USA. But reporters writing about Parler need to get smart about what they are looking at and ask better questions about capital and infrastructure. It wasn’t hard to do this background research.
1/Westerners misunderstand Putin’s power and think he serves at the pleasure of rich people. That’s wrong. Russia is an oligarchy, not a plutocracy. It’s vital to understand the difference. Wealthy people have power because of their proximity to Putin. He *allows* them…
As the company expanded in 2019, it has been squarely focused on creating conditions that would challenge section 230 of the communications decency act. The company’s purpose seems to be expressly political and aimed at eroding US social media firms.
John and Alina were married December 2, 2017 in Kazan, Tatarstan, Russia. They were married in a government facility overseen by Alina’s mother, Gulnara Mukhutdinova, a longtime government functionary. Gulnara’s mother was an “Honored Builder of Russia” in Soviet times.
In the last couple of days Fox News advanced rumors that Parler was owned by George Soros, a claim for which there is zero evidence. Bongino was quick to step up and say that he owns it. That’s not how large scale tech investment works and this is BS.
In December 2018, the site received a massive influx of new users (tens of thousands) thanks to publicity from “far right” LARPers Candace Owens and Cassandra Fairbanks. Many operatives reserved accounts that month as a result of this push, including Owens’ pal Kanye West.
John was involved in a couple of unremarkable tech companies with college friend Jared Thomson. After a short stint working at Amazon in Seattle, and being unhappy there, he and Alina return to Vegas and decide to marry. They traveled to Russia in November 2017.
And we have heard some speculation that Robert and Rebekah Mercer may be the source of funds for NDMASCENDANT, but we cannot confirm that at this time. But here is Rudy traveling in Russia around that time.
Periodic reminder that Prigozhin is a depraved Nazi, and if he gains control of the situation, may do things Putin was too timid to do. That doesn’t mean we should root for Putin, just that this is a very dangerous situation with uncertain outcomes for the world at large.
I’ve been sitting on this information for six months and hoping media outlets would cover it and get up to speed on this. It hasn’t happened; our press corps is spread to thin. There is no “smoking gun” here. Everybody is behaving within their legal rights, it seems.
Now let’s talk money. Parler LLC is owned by two member entities: John Matze and NDMASCENDANT LLC. There is no public record of who comprises NDMASCENDANT LLC. It is a Delaware corporation. The company has not raised any traditional VC rounds that we can see.
However none of this passes the sniff test: any company aiming to challenge firms at Twitter scale needs a massive supply of funds to hire employees competitively and pay for rapidly scalable computing infrastructure.
This is not business. This is information warfare. You are a combatant in a global information war. Information war supports and precedes kinetic war. This isn’t a game. It is war.
3/BILL BINNEY retired in protest from NSA in 2001 after spat with
@GenMhayden
. He collaborated with Putinphile Oliver Stone (A Good American; Snowden), and has appeared on many Q content channels re: child sex abuse, directed energy weapons; he is part of
John and Alina traveled in Russia and in Europe extensively between December and July 2018. They returned to Vegas and launched Parler with Jared Thomson in August 2018. Almost no one joined between August and December 2018; it was in early alpha stages.
Limiting their employee pool to people ideologically committed to Parler’s bizarre anti-social mission is going to be a tough sell, and difficult to scale. The firm is likely to need technical and infrastructure help from outside to survive, as its weird revenue model is nascent.
1/Everyone’s goal should be to get off this platform, out of Tesla cars (and stock) and unwind the US government relationships with SpaceX and Starlink. Dude is no bueno, national security risk.
Also, the kinds of employees the company needs cost over $100k per year each, even in Las Vegas. $120k-150k is a more competitive salary. These folks do not come easily and are in short, inelastic supply. They also have to compete on ideological grounds...
4/ROBERT DAVID STEELE, retired CIA, has appeared on countless Q-influencer channels. He drove the Pizzagate story in 2016. Has ties to Iran-connected ops, and also Russia info channels. Part of . Reform party pres. candidate, 2012.
Parler has claimed that Dan Bongino (notorious Republican media personality) has made strategic investments in the company. However it is unlikely he would have sufficient capital to fuel such a firm. Likewise “cryptocurrency investor” Jeffrey Wernick has said he is an investor.
It's becoming clear now: This is January 6th, Episode II.
They Freedom Caucus is demanding debt default, which will spark a ~$15T global financial crisis. COVID was ~$4T. This will only help Putin and his BRICS+/GGC allies.
Benton became the company’s PR consultant and primary press contact. To help with marketing, they enlisted the hospitality coordinator of the BLT Prime steakhouse at the Trump hotel in DC, Elise Rhodes. She had no prior marketing experience, it seems.
Elon and Jack will work together to shut down the existing Twitter tech stack and move it to Bluesky. Anyone paying attention would know this. That’s why he’s freezing development on the existing platform. It will take a little time, but this is what they’re up to. Watch.
1/We are now seeing the term “Fifth Column” replace terms like “Russian asset” and “Russian agent.” This reflects a more correct understanding of the situation.
Many people correctly identified Kremlin-aligned messaging coming from US persons as anomalous and treasonous, but…
1/Disinformation is the operational end of a process designed to break down society and radicalize it into cultish forms. This process leads people away from truth.
We can’t address this process by distributing truth; the cure for disinfo is not simply truth.
1/Blunt truth: there are many people in the West who do not understand that Putin has an active, sprawling, well-developed Fifth Column operation running in EVERY NATO country, especially in US and Canada.
Analysts not familiar with its participants, messaging, and...
John Matze thinks it’s very important that people remember the role the Soviet Union played in defeating the Nazis, and in bringing World War II to a close. Fair point, John; they did their part. Including a lot of raping in Berlin.
#nobodysperfect
It’s true. THE AMERICANS is a very good television series. It’s a favorite of Alina’s it seems. And she is proud of her newborn daughter’s US social security card. And loves the Russian flag. Fun fact: Izzuminka means “cherry on top.”
Alina is very interested in her motherland also, making sure to follow
@KremlinRussia
and
@Pravitelstvo_RF
. It’s nice when people can appreciate two cultures, right?
5/KIRK WIEBE, former NSA, is a colleague of Binney's. He was part of a pro-Russia group with Binney called VIPS. Has endorsed ITNJ activities. Appeared in a video with Binney and Oliver Stone's son Sean Stone, Sep 2020, on channel "Triangle of Paganism."
In case y’all missed this from a few weeks ago. Musk is doing the same shit as Assange, Giuliani, Snowden, and Guccifer 2.0 before him, all of whom were Kremlin cutouts and amplified by the *same* people. Cut the crap and use your brains.
Musk chose today, the second anniversary of the January 6th insurrection, to restore Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn and conspiracist David Icke to Twitter, after a 2 year absence, marking a major escalation in information warfare, which historically tends to precede kinetic conflict.
7/LARRY C. JOHNSON is a former CIA + State Dept official, turned conspiracist; also part of VIPS. Signed Dec 2016 VIPS memo saying Russia was not behind the DNC hack; foundational to the Seth Rich lie. Believes Russia did not interfere in 2016.
1/DUTY TO WARN: We have assembled information that suggests there is a credible near term threat to the global financial system and economic stability. The threat is in progress; there are multiple factors in play, but the most urgent is the upcoming authorization to increase...
Very much worth taking 5 minutes to go back and read this now. What we are dealing with will make more sense.
1) this was planned, 2) there was an effort to warp public perception to make you doubt it was planned.
I have to get some things sorted before I can say more, but this info must get out. I will have replies off on sensitive tweets, so as not to breed noise and chatter. DMs open.
21/Some may wonder why these folks went down this path. From research, the common theme we have found is that they are disaffected from the mainstream of their professional community. Alienation is often a cause of radicalization.
It should be obvious by now: Putin can’t attack the United States militarily, so he’s doing it the only way he can: with soft influence assets Johnson, Gaetz, et al. Expect a shutdown. These guys aren’t acting in the best interest of the US.
8/RAY MCGOVERN is a retired CIA official who has been a longtime guest of Alex Jones on InfoWars; also on left channels like Democracy Now. In Jan 2017, he wrote an op-ed with Binney saying DNC emails weren’t hacked, but leaked. Vehemently pro-Assange.
You know how Musk is asking employees to report “low performers” at Twitter so they can be removed?
That’s the model they’d like to use for society. You know, so humans can “evolve.” Remove the bottom 25% low performers. “Stack ranking,” they call it. Or, “conscious evolution.”
6/ED LOOMIS, another NSA colleague of Binney and Wiebe; also part of VIPS. He appeared in the Oliver Stone-produced film "A Good American" with Binney.
9/MICHAEL SCHEUER founded and led the CIA's station responsible for tracking Osama Bin Laden from 1996-2004. He left after being outed for anonymously publishing "Imperial Hubris." Has called for assassination of Obama and other officials; promotes Q.
1/For those of you new to all of this, Taibbi has been visibly carrying water for Putin since at least 2017, but really for years before that when he lived in Moscow working on The Exile with Mark Ames. Lots of rape and sex harassment accusations too.
Here is Alina’s grandmother, an “Honored Builder of Russia,” and a sample of what that award looks like. (She would have received it during Soviet times. Not that there’s anything wrong with that.)
Really probably need to be thinking of George Santos as a major security risk, given his Brazilian background, cryptic behavior, and everything else going on there now.
1/Now that R’s have taken the House, it’s time for a strategy for the debt ceiling.
D’s should either raise or eliminate it in the lame duck. Pelosi wants this. Biden has said he doesn’t support eliminating it; may feel different now though. If D’s fail to deal w/this…
Bottom line: Peter Thiel and Elon Musk have allied with Putin and oil/gas interests to try to undermine the dollar as the world’s reserve currency, in a fascist bid to destroy the US and EU administrative states.
Pick a side.
20/Expect to hear more about these characters. If you know of others who should be included in this list, please send details. If you're a reporter and wish to dig into this network, please reach out; I have more info. DM's are open. This is a major counterintelligence failure.
13/JACK POSOBIEC former US Navy intel, connected to Russia-linked actors such as Cassandra Fairbanks, Roger Stone, Jim Hoft, Flynn, and others. Became deeply interested in QAnon in Sep 2018 when he made a long video about it for OAN.
10/RUSSELL BRUEMMER, former top lawyer at CIA + congressional affairs lead at FBI, formed cryptocurrency company Indeco with alleged QAnon/Shadowbox collaborator Trevor Fitzgibbon. May have used alias Hiro Tokumei.
THREAD: Now that
@Amazon
@awscloud
has announced they will no longer host
@parler_app
, many have speculated that they will just “find another host.”
Here is why that’s not so simple and what it will likely mean for the app’s future. First, let’s look at where things are...
17/JOSHUA MACIAS, founder, Vets for Trump; founder, JTF MAGA. Macias visited Trump Tower in late 2016 to advocate for vets. He was arrested in Philadelphia disrupting the 2020 vote count. Released, he was jailed again after participating in Jan 6 events.
🛑 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.
Additional supporting documentation is available here:
11/KEVIN SHIPP, former CIA, appears in the fabulist documentary “Out of Shadows” and in other Q media. Had initial doubts about QAnon, but then became more supportive. Long history of conflict with CIA.
So everyone understands now that the Russian war and the January 6th operation are one unified and continuous conflict, right?
Just want to clarify that for anyone who hasn’t figured it out yet.
12/STEVE PIECZENIK, former State Department official, was partners with Tom Clancy. He became a critic of US policy and has appeared many times on InfoWars. He says Bin Laden died in 2001; Steele cites him. Themes from Clancy pervade QAnon + predecessors.
19/And there are various collaborators within government. MTG, Boebert, Biggs, Gosar, Jordan, Gohmert, Nunes in Congress, at a minimum. Patel, Tata and possibly others who were at Pentagon and NSA. This BS film offers an overview of part of that network.
Elon is a Kremlin mouthpiece, not some independent thinker with “ideas.” So stop critiquing the ideas — they are worthless and unoriginal. Research and expose the fact that he is a Kremlin mouthpiece. This is the story.
1/Time to get real. Most of what people perceive as ‘real’ the last five years has been a constructed stage play designed to tear the world apart. It’s a sham. People were duped. Don’t get fooled again. Here are just a few samples.
14/MICHAEL AQUINO, former US Army PSYOPs; founder, Temple of Set; founder, Church of Satan; author, "MindWar." Associate of Jim Watkins (8kun); associate of Sean Stone. Long-time critic of CIA. First officially recognized Satanic Chaplain of the US Army.
What started as an investigation into a few specific disinformation networks has taken us to the very top of the Kremlin. Just spent a 16 hour flight organizing notes so we can tell the urgent part of this story. One more flight to go, then I’ll post here, after I get some sleep.
A thing to consider: if Thiel blew up SVB to spark bailout anxiety and/or contagion — but it wasn’t quite enough to achieve his goal — what else might he try to blow up to spark contagion?
22/PRISCILLA ADAMS DUMONT is an employee at the US Army's Redstone Arsenal in Huntsville, AL. She was the
#1
correspondent with 8kun's Jim Watkins, according to server logs examined by myself,
@emmibevensee
@maxzzze
+ others. More in this Bellingcat story.
This Garland hearing is remarkable because no one has the guts to say, "the Council for National Policy has coordinated a nationwide attack on local school boards which, we understand, was the impetus for your memo."
Instead we're pretending this is organic activity. It's not.
The Twitter deal is a warfare front, and if it isn’t blocked on national security grounds, it’s a lost battle in that war. Also would point to deep capture of US government, and very grim times ahead. Blocking the deal, and charging Musk on FARA 951 grounds is a sign of health.
A couple years ago I spoke to a reporter who covered Flynn extensively. "He's invisible to Washington reporters because they're looking for an org chart, when he's running a networked insurgency."
Same applies to Dugin. Stop looking for an org chart — look at the network.
Once again I strongly suggest folks discard the strict Dems vs. GOP lens in favor of the red-brown alliance (think RFK+Musk) vs democracy and institutions.
This is the fascist playbook and it has a very long history. We just aren’t used to seeing it, so it’s confusing.
15/PAUL VALLELY, former US Army PSYOPs, claims QAnon is run by "The Army of Northern Virginia" (i.e. ex-intel people) who work with "white hats" to deliver intel through Q channels. Listen to him say this.
I can't stress this enough: the crypto attack on the dollar is not strictly a "pump and dump" or a "grift." It's an ideologically-driven attack on the legitimacy of fiat currency, the
@federalreserve
, and the incumbent financial system. It is the sequel to the January 6th attack.
18/TOM MCINERNEY former USAF Lt. Gen., has appeared on multiple Q-promoting content channels including Ann Vandersteel and Michael Scheuer's podcast. He claims Democrats coordinated with the Chinese government to create COVID-19.
I don’t have a lot to say about the campus protests. But here are some things we can observe.
• Many students on both sides of this issue have legitimate concerns.
• Some students have no grasp of the issues.
• There are various agitators and bad actors in the mix, making…