THE DEVIL FINDS WORK...
More allegations of a worldwide conspiracy of Satanist pædophiles
THRONE OF BAAL
Over 70 artworks and ancient artefacts housed in Berlin museums and galleries were vandalised in October 2020 in what appears to be an organised attack on “global Satanism”. The priceless objects included Egyptian sarcophagi, stone sculptures and 19thcentury paintings held at the Pergamon Museum, the Alte Nationalgalerie and the Neues Museum on Berlin’s famous Museumsinsel. The attacks, news of which were kept from the public for over two weeks, occurred on 3 October and employed an “oily substance”. The Pergamon Museum is apparently regarded by some as the centre of the “global Satanism scene” because it has a reconstruction of the ancient Greek Pergamon Altar on display (see FT260:46-48 for the full story).
There is a possible precedent for such attacks; in 2018 two women were arrested in Greece after smearing museum exhibits at the National Museum of History, Athens, with an “oily substance”. The two Bulgarian women told police they had sprayed the artworks with oil and myrrh “because the Holy Scripture says it is miraculous”. Chrism, myrrh, or holy anointing oil is used by numerous Christian denominations when administering sacraments such as baptism or ordination.
German media have linked the Museum Island attack to recent conspiracy theories disseminated by prominent coronavirus deniers via social media. Attila Hildmann is a former vegan celebrity chef and now one of Germany’s bestknown proponents of QAnon. In August and September, he posted messages on his public Telegram channel (Telegram is a cloud-based instant messaging service that encrypts messages to prevent them from being read by a third party) suggesting that Angela Merkel had been using the Pergamon altar for “human sacrifices”. Hildmann, who has over 100,000 Telegram followers wrote: “Fact! It is the throne of Baal (Satan)”. Guardian, 20 Oct 2020.
QANON AND ON
Advocates of QAnon claim that a Satanic child-murdering pædophile sex cult is being coordinated by Hollywood actors and other ‘global elite’ figures like Hillary Clinton, but which current president Donald Trump is fighting against.
The QAnon conspiracy theory was cited at a House intelligence committee hearing in October, “Misinformation, Conspiracy Theories, and ‘Infodemics’: Stopping the Spread Online”. Experts testified before Congress that the spread of online misinformation and conspiracy theories had contributed to what they called “a threat that is dismantling democracy” as well as instigating real-world violence. Melanie Smith, head of analysis at Graphika Inc., a network analysis firm that employs data science to study social networks, identified QAnon as “the most pressing threat to trust in government, public institutions and democratic processes. The real reason QAnon poses a threat,” she said, “is in its systematic undermining of facts and truths on topics of genuine concern, such as the integrity of elections, human trafficking and the global COVID-19 pandemic.” She also sought to dispel the misconception that QA non had been fuelled or infiltrated by foreign actors and was driven by bots or fake accounts, instead arguing that it “does appear to be a homegrown movement that engages real users.” As well as QAnon, concern was expressed about ‘Covid-sceptics’ and coronavirus misinformation leading to a lack of confidence in health experts’ recommendations.
October’s hearing followed YouTube’s recent action, preceded by that of Facebook and Twitter, in banning QAnon content. In the recent US election, Republican businesswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene was elected a Congresswoman to represent northwest Georgia. She has described the mythical ‘Q’, the supposed leader/whistleblower at the heart of QAnon, as a “patriot” who is “worth listening to”. Among her other pronouncements are: Holocaust survivor George Soros collaborated with the Nazis; the 2017 White supremacist rally at Charlottesville was an “inside job” to “further the agenda of the elites”; and White males are “the most mistreated group of people in the United States today”.
Donald Trump himself had been flagged in recent months by Twitter and Facebook for spreading misinformation, including a claim that he was now “immune” from Covid-19 following his hospitalisation and recovery. Since his election defeat, Trump’s tweets have frequently been flagged with the warning messages “This claim about election fraud is disputed”. His 16 November tweet “I won the Election!” was tagged with the cautionary notice “Multiple sources called this election differently”. [UPI] 6, 15 Oct; wfsb.com, 4 Nov 2020.
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