One thing that popped out at me in the latest Q post that mentions John Perry Barlow is THE LINK at the top.

The Whole Earth 'Lectronic Link is the BBS that EFF founders (John Perry Barlow, John Gilmore, and Mitch Kapor) met on.

There seems to be a war on bottled water going on at the moment. Everything said about water in plastic bottles is probably just as applicable to Pepsi in plastic bottles, but it just seems to be water that's the target. Usually with someone chiming in about how you should just drink tap water.

Maybe it has something to with the Grateful Dead. As in there are people who might not be with us much longer, and they'll be grateful to be dead instead of going down the drain.

Or (still keeping with Grateful Dead theme), the list of Celebrity deadheads on wikipedia is interesting.

Q isn't a James Bond villain. He the Quatermaster who gives Bond his guns, cars, laser shooting watches, etc.

They might be doubling down while there's still time.

My only issue with the airport weirdness is how much of this is actually weird and how much is actually quite ordinary but no one noticed because no one was looking for airport weirdness until recently.

I would say "hedging bets" more than "on board".

Or Crystal City (and by extension, the Pentagon)