Obama 'Weaponizing' Federal Government To Spy On

Trump, Ex-White House Doctor's Explosive Charge

By James Patterson

05/14/20 AT 5:30 AM

"Recently retired Navy Admiral Ronny Jackson, a Republican, who spent more than a decade as a physician to Presidents George W. Bush, Barack Obama and Donald Trump, including five years as the top White House physician, has accused Obama on Tuesday of weaponizing the federal government against Trump.

Jackson tweeted, "President Obama weaponized the highest levels of our government to spy on President Trump. Every Deep State traitor deserves to be brought to justice for their heinous actions."

In April 2018, Trump nominated but quickly withdrew the nomination for Jackson to be the head of Veterans Affairs, one of the largest Cabinet agencies. The withdrawal was over accusations of misconduct, including allegations that he improperly handled prescription drugs during his White House years.

Jackson, age 53, retired from the Navy on Dec. 1, 2019, and eight days later filed to run as a Republican for Congress in Texas's 13th congressional district.

Jackson may be using his association with Trump to jumpstart his political career. He has never run for public office before and will face almost a dozen other Republicans who have already entered the race."

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https://www.ibtimes.com/obama-weaponizing-federal-government-spy-trump-ex-white-house-doctors-explosive-2976088

UFO Conspiracy Theorists Offer 'Ascension' From Our Hell

World for $333

David Wilcock and Corey Goode are peddling salvation,

protection from the "illuminati deep state," and bogus

COVID-19 explanations to millions on YouTube.

By MJ Banias

14 May 2020, 3:00am

"Standing in his warmly-lit living room, the popular UFO conspiracy theorist David Wilcock was telling his YouTube Live audience that the "Illuminati Deep State" was responsible for the COVID-19 pandemic and that he knew the secrets of how to save humanity from the crisis. More than 20,000 people were watching; hundreds of dollars in donations began rolling in via YouTube Superchat. The video now has more than a million views.

Just over a week later, Wilcock’s comrade in arms, Corey Goode, posted a video claiming, nonsensically, that according to briefings he has received from government insiders, the new coronavirus was engineered as a “biological weapon from an American university” and smuggled into China by a student in order to act as a population control tool. He concluded by stating that he wasn’t sure if his source was totally accurate.

There is nothing novel about two conspiracy theorists addressing COVID-19; the crisis has become a bonanza for those promoting hoaxes, fake treatments, xenophobia, and general nonsense. Wilcock and Goode, though, offer something different than the average figure ranting about 5G towers; they're significant figures in the “disclosure community,” a conspiracy-driven New Age segment of the UFO subculture that believes the government is hiding the truth about extraterrestrials. Combined, the two men have over half a million followers across various social media platforms. And while both had humble beginnings as ordinary UFO conspiracy theorists, this moment may uniquely suit them. They claim, after all, to have become quasi-divine prophets offering salvation from global cataclysm—all while offering aggressive legal challenges to anyone who would do so much as describe Wilcock, a man who has started what for all intents and purposes appears to be his own religion, as a spiritual leader.

Wilcock and Goode first partnered several years ago, promoting each other's wild narratives. Their 2019 documentary The Cosmic Secret tells the tale of a global catastrophe which, according to what Wilcock describes as his telepathic communications with alien beings, will happen soon. The end of the world, more specifically, will be the result of a “global pole shift.” (While Earth’s poles have shifted and do undergo minute changes over periods of thousands of years, mainstream geomagnetists aren’t concerned that a global cataclysm will occur any time soon.) Wilcock and Goode claim that the Moon is hollow and served as the home to an alien civilization that lived on Earth billions of years before humans. They cite the Klerksdorp Spheres—round, naturally occuring pyrophyllite balls—as evidence that an “ancient builder race” occupied Earth billions of years ago."

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https://www.vice.com/en_asia/article/4ayyqw/david-wilcock-ufo-conspiracy-theorist-covid-19-deep-state-ascension

“Shadowland”: A New Project From The Atlantic on the

Power and Danger of Conspiracy

Immersive series, launching with Adrienne LaFrance’s cover

story on the prophecies of QAnon, explores how conspiracy

theories captured the American mind.

5:00 AM ET

"Conspiracy thinking has shaped the world for centuries, destroying great institutions, eradicating knowledge, endangering democracies, and ending lives. These theories threaten not just individual facts, but the idea that empirical truth exists at all. And now, with a president of the United States who advances conspiracy thinking about a pandemic that has led to 82,000 reported deaths in America, it becomes an existential threat.

In an effort to better understand how we got here, and how we might find a way out, The Atlantic today launches “Shadowland,” an exploration of how conspiracy theories have shaped America, and why they are more powerful, and dangerous, now than ever.

Shadowland takes you down the rabbit hole through an interactive project portal, built with the mobile reader in mind; the product and visuals are central to the storytelling. It represents some of the most ambitious work of the year, even as The Atlantic continues to apply the full weight of its newsroom to cover the biggest stories of our age: the global pandemic, the Trump presidency, and the spread of illiberalism across the planet.

The project debuts with “The Prophecies of Q,” executive editor Adrienne LaFrance’s cover story on QAnon for The Atlantic’s June issue. With its legions of followers, fabrications about the coronavirus, and dark predictions about the “deep state,” QAnon’s power—and the rejection of reality it represents—only grows. LaFrance warns that QAnon “is a movement united in mass rejection of reason, objectivity, and other Enlightenment values. And we are likely closer to the beginning of its story than the end … To look at QAnon is to see not just a conspiracy theory but the birth of a new religion.”"

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https://www.theatlantic.com/press-releases/archive/2020/05/shadowland-on-the-power-and-danger-of-conspiracy/611641/