MEDIA TRIPWIRE? Ping Pong Pizza Conspiracy Propels Internet Censorship Amid ‘Fake News’ Witch-Hunt Funny how secrets travel. I d start to believe, if I were to bleed.    Lyrics written by David Bowie from the album OutsideShawn Helton 21st Century Wire In the days before the US presidential election in November 2016, Wikileaks revealed a new string of emails connected to Hillary Clinton s 2016 campaign chairman, John Podesta. Online interpretations of the leaked Podesta email exchanges subsequently led to a digital firestorm on social media, producing an intense conspiratorial  open source investigation  still in search of its smoking gun. However, the phenomenon now known by its hashtag #Pizzagate has since set a number of tertiary events into motion. Is there a real story hidden amongst the debris of this online explosion?Is it possible that  open source investigators  were being led into a virtual cul-de-sac and thus missing the real story?More importantly, could people be playing into the hands of the very establishment they seek to depose?Let s investigate   SHOCK & AWE    Over the past month, the DC-based restaurant Comet Ping Pong, along with Besta Pizza (to a lesser degree Austin s East Side Pies) has been the subject of a peculiar internet-based conspiracy. (Photo Illustration Shawn Helton of 21WIRE)CONTEXT: Podesta Emails, False Hacks & ConspiracyWhile many of the leaked Podesta emails (including the really important one admitting that US partners Qatar and Saudi Arabia are giving funding and  logistical support  of ISIS) caused a major stir in the run-up to the 2016 Election, few Wikileaks releases have attracted more attention then the Podesta emails associated with the internet-based conspiracy dubbed  Pizzagate. In fact, since the release of the so-called  pizzagate  emails, a bundle of leaks and media reports associated with the Clintons political pay-for-play allegations, as well as the shocking admission regarding voter fraud from disgraced Democratic National committee consultant Robert Creamer prior to the 2016 presidential election, have all but disappeared from the mainstream narrative. Very convenient, if you are part of the Democratic Party establishment.Remember that all of this was taking place right after the mainstream media along with the White House, set the stage for a massive PR push implicating Russia as a disrupting force for evil in the US presidential election   allegedly through Kremlin-sponsored hacking of US democratic institutions and through  sophisticated Russian propaganda. In August, the western media s claims against Russia hit overdrive, when the  New York Times s Moscow bureau was the target of an attempted cyber attack this month. But so far, there is no evidence that the hackers, believed to be Russian, were successful. Flash forward to September here and here, as well as early October in the lead up to President Obama s Russian Hack decree, the Clinton-friendly outlet, the NY Times, had all but solidified the Russian cyber-hack claims   but once again, without any definitive evidence or proof.Throw in another American  October surprise  in the form distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks, renewed calls for the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) internet, led to so-called cyber experts blaming the largest  hack on America  because of the inability to pass SOPA   in effect, reigniting the previously stalled SOPA in Washington DC, along with all of its draconian copyright law positions   all perfectly timed as mainstream reports regarding  fake news suddenly became all the rage across all forms of media.The media clips on YouTube below illustrate the kind of duplicitous double speak regarding the  election rigging  that has become a hallmark of the Obama administration and establishment Washington Following 2016 s US presidential election cycle, a Russian election-hack-theory gained even more media traction, orbiting the political realm like a low-hanging fruit (propelled by President Obama and now the CIA, both conflicting with the FBI s assessment in October), dovetailing with the first grumblings that  fake news  had somehow decided the US presidential election in favor of one candidate, Donald Trump. These are serious accusations that have still failed to yield any solid forensic results from the intelligence community.Is this mere political gamesmanship, or is there more at work?Could this all be covering up and diverting the public away from some other explosive events?  LOLITA EXPRESS    In 2008, Jeffery Epstein was convicted of soliciting an underage girl for prostitution (Image Source: miamibeachadvocate.com)As internet researches battle with mainstream media over allegations in #Pizzagate, another potentially much bigger story became buried under the digital avalanche. If this is indeed the case, then who benefits?The  Lolita Express  ScandalSeemingly even more unsettling and disturbing in 2016, was the vastly underreported  Lolita Express  scandal swirling around the Clinton Campaign.In 2010, Jeffery Epstein, a billionaire hedge fund mogul who is also a member of the Trilateral Commission and the Council on Foreign Relations (as well as playing a role in the formation of the Clinton Global Initiative), effectively walked free even though a 53-page indictment could have landed him in prison for 20 years according to reports. Epstein s  Gatsbyesque  persona once described by New York magazine, has long since given way to a new profile as a convicted sex-offender  a superstar who was now condemned by a litany of legal troubles due to reports of ghastly serial abuse during the past decade.However, during this year s election cycle, coverage concerning new details associated with Epstein s private island, Little St. James, and allegations of sex slave entertainment enterprise there, was virtually buried by the US corporate media.The drop in wall-to-wall coverage from the tongue-tied mainstream media was most likely due to Epstein s close affiliation to former President Bill Clinton, who according flight manifests and other supporting evidence, took  at least 26 trips aboard the  Lolita Express    even apparently ditching his Secret Service detail for at least five of the flights, according to records obtained by FoxNews.com. It doesn t stop there either. Other high-profile names linked to the Epstein case included former Democratic governor Bill Richardson, Kurt Cobain widow Courtney Love, prominent celebrity lawyer, Israeli advocate and Harvard Law professor Alan Dershowitz, British royal Prince Andrew, former Israeli prime minister Ehud Barak, and even president-elect Donald Trump.  THE BLACK BOOK     Epstein flight records and  a little black book  paint a very intriguing picture. (Image Source: Gawker)Interestingly, the Epstein case was covered heavily by Gawker   a news outlets which is now facing bankruptcy following a defamation case won by Hulk Hogan (Terrence Gene Bollea) over the controversial publication of the wrestling icon s sex tape. Hogan s legal victory  took Gawker out  but could the real reason have been its Epstein coverage? Here s some of what Gawker said about the Epstein case: Donald Trump, Courtney Love, former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak, and uber-lawyer Alan Dershowitz may have been identified by a butler as potential  material witnesses  to pedophile billionaire Jeffrey Epstein s crimes against young girls, according to a copy of Epstein s little black book obtained by Gawker.An annotated copy of the address book, which also contains entries for Alec Baldwin, Ralph Fiennes, Griffin Dunne, New York Post gossip Richard Johnson, Ted Kennedy, David Koch, filmmaker Andrew Jarecki, and all manner of other people you might expect a billionaire to know, turned up in court proceedings after Epstein s former house manager Alfredo Rodriguez tried to sell it in 2009. About 50 of the entries, including those of many of Epstein s suspected victims and accomplices as well as Trump, Love, Barak, Dershowitz, and others, were circled by Rodriguez. (The existence of the book has been previously reported by the Daily Mail. Gawker is publishing it in full here for the first time; we have redacted addresses, telephone numbers, email addresses, and the last names of individuals who may have been underage victims.)According to an FBI affidavit, Rodriguez described the address book and the information contained within it as the  Holy Grail  or  Golden Nugget  to unraveling Epstein s sprawling child-sex network. Epstein reportedly also had additional ties to Trump, with both men having on and off again been implicated in a separate Jane Doe  sexual assault lawsuit that was recently dropped in the US court system, apparently for a third time since 1994.The Washington Times discusses how other high-level clients allegedly used Epstein s services   including a member of the British royal family. The following passage is from a report filed in January of 2015: And even post-prison, Mr. Epstein kept up some of these high-profile relationships   leading to his most recent emergence in the news, which involves allegations that he provided Prince Andrew with sexual services from a then-17-year-old American girl, Virginia Roberts.Ms. Roberts, now 30, has filed a federal lawsuit in Florida against Mr. Epstein, alleging he forced her to serve as a  sex slave  and paid her $15,000 to perform sexual services for the prince, the New York Post reported. Here s Sean Stone from RT s Watching the Hawks interviewing Conchita Sarnoff, the Executive Director from The Alliance to Rescue Victims of Trafficking to discuss Epstein s heinous past Another strange turn in the Clinton Email scandal came late in the election, only days before voters went to the polls. Suddenly, it was revealed by media outlets that due to the investigation into the sexting scandal involving disgraced former U.S. Representative Anthony Weiner, (husband of chief Clinton aide Huma Abedine) FBI director James Comey would announce that the agency would be reopening the Clinton email probe.Interestingly, according to a recent interview with Breitbart News, Hillary Clinton herself was alleged to have taken 6 trips to Epstein s Little Saint James island, according to private security kingpin and Blackwater founder Erik Prince. Prior to the election and right after the FBI reopened its investigation into the Clintons (before promptly being shut down for a second time), the controversial mercenary made the extraordinary claim.It s important for readers to note how explosive this revelation truly was, and yet, not one word from either the mainstream media, or  alternative media,  outside of Breitbart and few other blogs, on this potentially devastating allegation. Prince asserted that the NYPD found  way more stuff  within the 650,000 recently scrutinized emails. The news reportedly sent shock waves into the upper echelon of the Democratic Party and the Clinton campaign   as the NYPD was said to have been ready to hand out indictments  into additional criminal activity, possibly involving money laundering and underage sex, among other illicit activity.Prince s commentary on the Democratic Party s apparent corruption was released around the same time as a batch of Podesta Emails that sent internet sleuths down a pizzagate rabbit hole. Prince s claim then seem to be grafted onto the pizzagate theory by some YouTube commentators, only without any actual concrete evidence.In early 2016, the embattled Blackwater (renamed Academi, and then Xe) founder Prince, was the subject of an inquiry that alleged he was involved in a major money laundering scheme with the Bank of China in Libya. In 2014, Prince supposedly setup  Frontier Services Group in 2014 with the help of major Chinese investment firm Citic Group. When you factor in how Prince himself became the subject of a major scandal and is now on the offensive, it s hard to know whether his claims are true or just a political ploy aimed at deflecting his own controversy. However, his claims do offer a dark view into a political party that has been in a downward spiral for several years.Wheat from the ChaffWith all of that in mind, for any true investigation to take place, the facts still need to be separated from what might only be innuendo and overt speculation.Other apparent conspiracies were also brought into the fold during the ascendency of #pizzagate, as social media users seemed to make some startling connections, although without a complete story. The lack of coherence of pizzagate allegations opened the door for some of the usual suspects to come in to steer the conversation away from some potentially damaging connections back to the Clintons. Establishment gatekeeper publication The Daily Beast reported the following in the passage below: Written by user  PleadingtheYiff,  the post attempts to link the Clinton campaign to Laura Silsby, an Idaho missionary who served a six-month prison sentence in Haiti after the organization she founded, New Life Children s Refuge, attempted to transport 33 Haitian children to the Dominican Republic after the 2010 Haiti earthquake.The user s primary proof of links between the Clintons and Silsby:  Huma Abedin was constantly forwarding Hillary articles on this woman s organization.  The post provides no email sent from Clinton to Abedin regarding the incident.The theory then includes a major error. One of the first things Hillary did when she took over the scene in Haiti was to get Laura off the hook,  PleadingtheYiff writes, then links to a website called  AboveTopSecret.com. Silsby wasn t freed and instead remained incarcerated in Haiti, where she faced trial and was found guilty. The nine other missionaries jailed alongside her were freed. Is it possible that the Laura Silsby case was buried under endless collateral damage from pizzagate?With even more damning American conspiracies in 2016, such as the DNC fraud, violent protests funded by George Soros, or the Pentagon paying PR firm Bell Pottinger $540 million to produce fake terror videos, in addition to the Lolita Express revelations concerning the Clintons in particular, you have to wonder whether the pizzagate theory was an unintended coincidence or if it was yet another socially engineered agenda that masked other media stories.What s most obvious, however, is how the pizzagate story and spin-off controversies appear to have obfuscated other real criminality contained within the Podesta email leaks, while providing a media smoke screen for the conspiracies mentioned directly above.In the article below we ll take another look at the pizzagate phenomena (along with Comet Ping Pong s gunman story, in addition to one of Washington DC s most notorious scandals) and how the events surrounding the online conspiracy, could be used to shape new censorship protocols in the wake of US media s witch-hunt for  fake news  sites   LEAKED    John Podesta former chairman for Hillary Clinton s 2016 presidential campaign, pictured with Clinton chief aid Huma Abedin on the Clinton campaign jet. Spirit Cooking & #Pizzagate: A Media-Driven Psy-Op?Within the contents of the controversial Podesta dispatch by Wikileaks in early November, there appeared to be a distressing email chain between Tony Podesta, a top Democratic lobbyist of the Podesta Group (brother of John Podesta, Hillary Clinton s campaign chairman) and a New York City-based Serbian performance artist named Marina Abramovic.The 2015 email exchange between Tony Podesta and Marina Abramovic (image, left) drew a sharp outcry from users on social media platforms like Twitter and Reddit, after the email conversation revealed a dinner party involving a performance art-based ritual calling for the use of real human blood and bodily fluids, referred to as  spirit cooking.   While Abramovic s occult-influenced art could be seen as sick and deeply disturbing to many, and even degenerate depravity to some   it s important to emphasize there was nothing criminal about her email with Tony Podesta or her dark creations captured on video from as early as two decades ago.The origins of Abramovic s spirit cooking appeared to some researchers to be linked directly to Aleister Crowley s, Thelma religion. This prompted some alternative media outlets to link to Everpedia as their primary source to explain the  truth  behind spirit cooking. The internet-based conspiracy ultimately led to increased speculation, turbo-charging even more spurious connections.Another major magnet for pizzagate researchers was Abramovic s book published in 1997, the self-proclaimed  grandmother  of performance art released a book entitled  Spirit Cooking with essential aphrodisiac recipes,   a rare book that contained a sequence of etchings and perverted recipes.As theories about spirit cooking exploded on social media, a series of Podesta emails were leaked containing what had been thought to be coded language concealing an elite underground child sex ring, according some quasi-investigative online sites and mega forums, citing 4chan and Reddit posts.In addition, it appears that a series of emails released by Wikileaks, here and here, are partially what led to one man, James Alefantis, owner of Comet Ping Pong, to become the central pizzagate antagonist. The fact that Alefantis is listed as one of DC s top 50 most influential people   only fuelled speculation that the internet case was  a slam dunk. Social media inquisitors shared pictures from the Instagram account of Alefantis (now blocked to the public) and other friends and contacts linked with him, in an attempt to conclude a vast conspiracy. While many of these images appeared disturbing in the context of the two conspiracies mentioned above, the images themselves did not prove any actual crime had taken place.As the conspiracy deepened, symbols from the Washington DC restaurant/venue Comet Ping Pong (derived from its menu and logo, as well as other pizza restaurants), in addition to apparent coded Podesta emails, sparked an outcry on social media as the symbols used appeared to mimic those according to a Wikileaks release supposedly from the FBI. The apparent leaked release from the FBI disclosed certain markers in sex trafficking and abuse cases. While there might be similarities in the graphics observed at Comet Ping Pong and nearby Besta Pizza, the evidence is still purely circumstantial and certainly nothing conclusively linking the DC-based pizzerias to any abuse ring. Internet trawlers also claimed to have unearthed photos of the digging of a secret basement-dungeon underneath Comet Ping Pong   a claim which later turned out to be false.Note that this one planted detail in the pizzagate story   the evocative image a  secret basement  reserved for child torture and abuse   sent this story into orbit. This is one example of how one or two simple details injected into a storyline can inflame the narrative and motivate forum users beyond what any real forensic investigation could, by creating a virtual crusade.In fact, it was revealed that  Comet uses a low-slung refrigerator at Buck s Fishing & Camping, Mr. Alefantis s other restaurant two doors down on the same block, to store produce, cheese and proofing dough.   (See left photo by Cecilia Kang)It s worth noting that 4chan was also behind one of the most speculative claims surrounding MH370, a story that allegedly involved the patent holders of the tech company Freescale Semiconductor which turned out to be false. Conversely, 4chan has provided some valuable crowd-sourced information, like in the wake of the 2013 Boston Bombing when 4chan users posted a number of photos indicating the presence of other operatives involved in the event   a point totally blacked-out by US authorities and media.Interestingly, the 4chan website is said to be  struggling to survive  financially in part because of increased users driven by viral and clickbait-like material like pizzagate.Through hyper-speculative and often misleading information spread by social media users, the pizzagate narrative took shape Media TripwireAs the US media brushed off the perceived content of the Podesta emails mentioned above, a ground swell of speculation, hyperbole and unsubstantiated claims filled the vacuum online, as enthusiasm continued unabated.It s also important to recognize that one of the main propellers of the initial Pizzagate story was a popular disinformation website called Your News Wire, who regularly feed the public with completely fake news stories online which get propagated through social media. This website has successfully managed to fool many online readers because it will regularly mix real news articles in with its many invented stories. A viral fake story like this would have netted  Your News Wire  tens of thousands of dollars in ad click revenue.BuzzFeed reports: On Oct. 30, a white supremacy Twitter account that presents itself as belonging to a Jewish lawyer in New York tweeted that the NYPD was looking into evidence that emails from Anthony Weiner s laptop contained evidence of Clinton involvement in an  international child enslavement ring. The next day, Oct. 31, Sean Adl-Tabatabai, who used to work with British conspiracy theorist David Icke, took note of the message board post and the tweet. He wrote a post for his site, YourNewsWire.com. His story took another step by claiming an  FBI insider  had confirmed the claims. Where did this this new FBI source come from? Adl-Tabatabai cited a thread on a 4chan message board from back in July. That thread started when an anonymous user invited questions after describing themself as  a person with intimate knowledge of the inner workings of the Clinton case.  (Adl-Tabatabai did not respond to questions sent to him by BuzzFeed News.) By this point, the story became a viral ball of fire, and there was no stopping it.You have to wonder if the spirit cooking/pizzagate emails, might have been used as a tripwire by the establishment to initiate increased internet censorship, a story that has gathered a big boost from highly speculative ideas pasted together by various social media personalities on YouTube and then codified by large popular  alt-media  outlets like Infowars.com here and here, who levied unconfirmed allegations at Comet Ping Pong restaurant and other private businesses in an affluent area of Washington DC.Few conspiracies in recent years have generated as much public outrage, scrutiny and intense speculation. However, we should question the timing of this conspiracy as it relates to the cyber censorship on the table following the  fake news  crisis.The BBC stated the following after a Podesta email thread leaked in November, mentioned the Alefantis connection: In early November, as Wikileaks steadily released piles of emails from Clinton s campaign chairman John Podesta, one contact caught the attention of prankster sites and people on the paranoid fringes.James Alefantis is the owner of Comet Ping Pong, a pizza restaurant in Washington. He s also a big Democratic Party supporter and raised money for both Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton. He was once in a relationship with David Brock, an influential liberal operative.Alefantis   who s never met Clinton   appeared in the Podesta emails in connection with the fundraisers. Other claims attached to the pizzagate theory included a link to a tweet from the deceased investigative reporter, Andrew Breitbart. The pizzagate theory seemed to gather steam from this screenshot of an alleged Breitbart tweet below   but is there more to the story?Upon reviewing the origins of the Breitbart tweet now intertwined with the pizzagate theory, there appears to be some contention about what Breitbart might have been referencing. Here s the political blog Hot Air on the matter: It s a classic Andrew Tweet. His abbreviations, his invention of words ( cover-upperer ) tells me that this was probably Andrew s work. I never really knew him to allow anyone to Tweet on his behalf but I suppose it s possible at some point he did so without my knowledge. So, for our discussion let s stipulate that it was Andrew who sent this out. What is he talking about? Anyone who knew Andrew well and worked closely in his sphere and knew what he would talk and Tweet about with regard to  underage sex slave(s)  and John Podesta, knows exactly what he is referring to: ACORN If you don t remember James O Keefe, Hanna Giles and the ACORN story that broke on Andrew s Big Government website in 2009, here s a quick description via Wikipedia, which has a lot of bogus takes on the story, but this brief description is correct: In July and August 2009, Giles and O Keefe visited ACORN offices in Baltimore, Washington, D.C., Brooklyn, San Bernardino, San Diego, Philadelphia, Los Angeles, and Miami. Giles dressed as a prostitute, while O Keefe wore white khakis with a blue dress shirt and/or tie and claimed to be her boyfriend. Giles and O Keefe recorded the encounters using hidden cameras and pretended to be seeking advice on how to run an illegal business that included the use of underage girls in the sex trade. The article goes on to state that the ACORN saga, which had been instrumental in Breitbart s rise in media, had been in some aspect involved an underage abuse story due to the undercover work of James O keefe and Hannah Giles.  STRANGE DAYS    Comet Ping Pong resides in a quiet affluent DC neighborhood. (Image Source: chicago sun-times)The Comet Ping Pong GunmanIn early December, 28 year-old actor Edgar Maddison Welch was arrested by authorities after reportedly discharging a rifle inside Alefantis s Comet Ping Pong restaurant. Welch had been apparently  self-investigating  Comet Ping Pong, the pizzeria at the epicenter of a shocking conspiracy asserting that the establishment is somehow allegedly involved in an expansive child trafficking abuse ring.Welch s background may have raised a few eyebrows of those who have chronicled the profiles of various gunman in recent years (such as his acting/film production past documented on IMDB), he was also recently involved in a major traffic accident in October, badly injuring a young teenager, potentially impacting his state of mind, as well as being exposed in a potential criminal case.While 21WIRE has outlined the possibility of informants being used in shooting events in the past   usually those individuals have had a lengthy criminal past with multiple links to government, military and sometimes the entertainment industry   Welch doesn t entirely fit this typical mold of a convict turned informant or agent provocateur.Perhaps there s another answer The online site Heavy.com released the following information regarding Welch s father and his work preventing child abductions: Harry Welch Jr. is a former police officer, firearms instructor and expert witness on firearms, according to his IMDB profile. He also writes that his family has hosted foster children and has worked to prevent child abuse.He was,  elected President of the North Carolina Crime Stoppers Association (two terms). Served as Executive Director for Protect-A-Child, a national, non-profit organization to prevent abuse and abduction of children. Appointed by Governor Jim Martin to the Governor s Commission on Child Victimization. Was Welch under psychological duress following his recent car accident, feeding into other aspects of his life, such as his father s work to prevent child abuse, then motivated into action by an online conspiracy?Although it s difficult to accurately gauge Welch s true motivation, some YouTube personalities absolutely contend that his involvement was scripted    to smear the a new burgeoning  pizzagate research community  online. Additionally, some researchers cite Welch s relief visit to Haiti in 2010, as absolute  proof of a hoax  because alleged Clinton Foundation ties to human trafficking in Haiti   claims that have to this date, have yet to be completely proven.This part of the pizzagate conspiracy gained steam when Monica Petersen, an activist for sex-worker rights, who over the summer was working for  Claude d Estree, the executive director of the Human Trafficking Center at the University of Denver,  apparently died of a suicide in mid November while in Haiti. However, at the time the circumstances of her death were not entirely clear, which led to intense speculation not grounded in fact. If there was evidence of foul play, certainly this could be investigated as part of a possible cover-up, especially during such a hotly contested US election involving the Clintons   but until that issue is resolved, any talk of  proof  of a wider conspiracy is still just that, talk.The Petersen tragedy was then grafted onto the pizzagate story The Washington Post reported the following, according to executive director d Estree:  Petersen had gone to Haiti a number of times, but she was not there to research human trafficking and was not investigating the Clinton Foundation. He said she had been a  brilliant  research fellow, working the past two years to produce a still unpublished article that critiqued a controversial book on the business of sex trafficking by Siddharth Kara. Unfortunately, Petersen s story got packaged with allegations of a Clinton trafficking conspiracy that was then interwoven within the pizzagate theory and on the same day Welch walked into Comet Ping Pong, the widely-known site Infowars.com  posted a YouTube video titled  Haiti PIZZAGATE: Death of Child Trafficking Investigator,  without actually confirming the full details surrounding Petersen s death. Everpedia, one of the first websites to explain the details of spirit cooking, appeared to also fan the flames of an alleged conspiracy surrounding Petersen s death.An ABC News release below disclosed the full details regarding Welch s apparent criminal activity at Comet Ping Pong: At around 3 p.m., he arrived at the restaurant, where witnesses say they saw Welch holding an assault rifle across his chest, according to the complaint. As he moved toward the back of the restaurant, employees and customers fled the building.As everyone was fleeing, Welch encountered an employee returning from the back freezer, according to court documents. The employee said Welch pointed the AR-15 rifle in his direction, the documents state, but Welch denied raising the firearm at the employee.After the customers and employees left the restaurant, police created a perimeter around it, and at about 3:24 p.m. Welch exited the building with his hands in the air, complying with officers. The story continued, with the following description: At one point he said he encountered a locked door and attempted to open it with a butter knife, the complaint says. When that didn t work, he fired shots at the lock with his AR-15, documents say. Here s a screen shot of Welch s incident report MSM Fake News Witch-HuntFor the mainstream media, pizzagate was the gift that just kept on giving.Following Welch s encounter inside Comet Ping Pong, the conspiracy known as  pizzagate  has fallen into the manipulative hands of the corporate mainstream media, now castigating  speculative alternative media outlets,  which in-turn gave legs to the already convoluted  fake news witch-hunt being waged by mainstream media   specifically aimed at independent outlets and blogs that regularly produce insightful critical analysis.Additionally, since the spirit cooking and pizzagate theories were merging, there has been no solid evidence linking the restaurant to anything criminal, yet the theories continue to persist online, implicating private citizens in what is at this point a  victimless  crime. This has made alternative media an easy target for mainstream media and politicians calling for more  control  over social media content to help stop waht mainstream pundits were now describing as pizzagate s own campaign online abuse and  internet bullying  against Comet Ping Pong s owner and staff.From a legal stand point, the pizzagate conspiracy could also potentially lead to a court case against the root cause of certain defamatory allegations and apparent death threats   as Alefantis and other shop owners are private citizens and not public figures. This is something to consider when presenting any possible theory directly implicating an individual in a major felony. Unless there exists a real forensic smoking gun, or a whistleblower willing to come forward then there is no  case    only speculation which could be construed as libel and defamation without any supporting evidence.While the internet has zeroed-in on pizzeria-based conspiracies over the past two months, it s important to remember that Washington has had a long dark history linked to illicit prostitution and sex trafficking   including at least two such expansive cases that reached all the way to the White House   DISGRACED    Former US Congressman Barney Frank. Frank did not seek re-lection in 2012 after he was found to have engineered a $12 million TARP bailout for OneUnited Bank. (Image Source: businessinsider.com)Washington s Silence: Congressman Frank s  Call Boys In 2011, Democratic Congressman Barney Frank, decided not to seek re-election. While much of the mainstream media waxed poetic about his 30-year career, there was virtually no mention of his involvement in one of the most notable DC scandals over the past three decades.In 1989, it was discovered that Frank s then boyfriend Stephen Gobie (who the US representative once solicited for an $80 dollar sexual encounter) had been running a prostitution ring out of Congressman Frank s Capitol Hill apartment   according to Gobie, Barney Frank was fully aware of the operation.Here s a passage from a Business Insider article from 2011 that describes one of DC s darkest scandals that is barely mentioned by media outlets to this day: Reuters didn t mention it. The New York Times didn t bring it up. The Guardian didn t note it either. The Washington Post got to it in the 17th paragraph.In 1989 it was discovered that Barney Frank s boyfriend, Stephen Gobie, whom Frank had once hired as a male prostitute, was running a male-brothel out of the Congressman s home. Frank claimed he did not know about the prostitution ring in his home, but he did use the power of his office to  fix  33 tickets for Gobie. And he knowingly wrote a misleading letter to Gobie s probation officer in Virginia. Frank received a  reprimand  for fixing the tickets. Gobie maintained that Frank knew about the prostitution ring operation in his home. Even writers who were absolutely untroubled by the openly homosexual lawmaker in 1989 thought that Frank should have resigned. Or they at least acknowledged that there was an abuse of his office. Additionally, the Washington Post reported that Gobie  maintained a relationship with Gabriel A. Massaro, the principal of Chevy Chase Elementary School, and used an office at the school in late 1987 to make telephone calls and have one client meet a prostitute. While Massaro was placed on administrative leave, the conspiracy deepened as the Washington Post followed up the breaking story providing the following details: With Congress in recess, it s too soon to tell if the Massachusetts Democrat will weather his admission that he paid Gobie for sex, hired him as a personal aide and wrote letters on congressional stationary to the convicted felon s probation officer. Shockingly, the scandal continued to persist as the investigation led to other political inquiries. Frank s scandal appeared to overlap and dovetail with another disturbing ring that reached all the way to the White House during the Reagan-Bush era.The Franklin Cover-upThe Barney Frank scandal indeed followed another appalling and chilling scandal dubbed the  Franklin Cover-up.  The shocking case involving Omaha, Nebraska s Franklin Credit Union employee named Lawrence King, who looted his employer to the tune of $38 million dollars. Here s a Washington Post article from 1990 on the matter: Lawrence E. King Jr., everyone now agrees, had a remarkable knack for stretching a dollar. On a salary of $16,200 a year, the credit union manager drove a $70,000 white Mercedes   and still could afford to spend $10,000 a month on limousines. His credit card charges topped $1 million, he owned a four-story house on 26 acres overlooking the Missouri River, and his floral bill alone came to $146,000 during a fragrant, 13-month period in 1987-88. While King s embezzlement was troublesome, it paled into comparison to a wider charge of trafficking and abuse levied at the credit union manager. The Post continued, outlining the awful truth about the abuse tied to King, in a group called the Franklin Five: In June 1988, a social worker at a mental hospital in Omaha reported allegations of possible child abuse to the Nebraska Foster Care Review Board, an agency that monitors the placement of several thousand children in the state.The board subsequently asked Omaha police and the state attorney general to investigate possible  child exploitation,  a  child prostitution ring  and  inappropriate activities by Larry King. More evidence in the same report revealed the following: 21 hours of videotaped testimony from three new witnesses, all in their early twenties, who said that, as minors, they had been victims of physical and sexual abuse. The book entitled The Franklin Cover-up, by former Nebraska state Senator and lawyer, John De Camp, chronicled a case that implicated politicians, judges, those in the military, police, as well as members of the intelligence community in the subsequent abduction of numerous children over the course of many years.Lawrence King was eventually convicted on charges of theft from the Franklin Credit Union and ordered to pay damages to Paul Bonacci for the apparent abuse he suffered during his abduction. Bonacci later told investigators he had participated in the abduction of Johnny Gosch, but according to (Polk County Attorney John Sarcone ) The Des Moines Resgister,  Bonacci has said he took part in Johnny Gosch s abduction, but Sarcone said investigators concluded any involvement by Bonacci was not credible. Here s a short summary of the disturbing case below: On February 5, 1999, in U.S. District Court in Lincoln, Nebraska, an extraordinary hearing occurred in Paul A. Bonacci v. Lawrence E. King, a civil action in which the plaintiff charged that he had been ritualistically abused by the defendant, as part of a nationwide pedophile ring linked to powerful political figures in Washington and to elements of the U.S. military and intelligence establishment. Three weeks later, on February 27, Judge Warren K. Urbom ordered King, who is currently in Federal prison, to pay $1 million in damages to Bonacci, in what Bonacci s attorney John DeCamp said was a clear signal that  the evidence presented was credible. The Frank and Franklin conspiracies outlined above sent shock waves through the establishment in Washington, and while it is possible we are seeing another trafficking cover-up happening again today, one should consider that thus far, there have been no victims found to have been abused regarding Comet Ping Pong or any other business wrapped up within the online pizzagate theory.A Franklin Cover-up documentary called  Conspiracy of Silence  was made and allegedly pulled from circulation following the fallout from a case that also implicated the Catholic founded non-profit orphanage, Boys Town.In a related scandal exposed in 2002, The Boston Globe s Spotlight Team  first revealed that the leader of the Catholic Church in Boston, Cardinal Bernard Law, allowed one of his priests to continue working even though Law knew that Fr. John Geoghan had spent his career sexually assaulting children. The story became so huge, that it led to more than 250 priests being publicly named in abuse allegations, covering some 100 cities in the US and another 100 globally. In 2015, Hollywood released the film Spotlight, which chronicled the tales of abuse.Similarly in the UK, over the past few years, an investigation into the Jimmy Savile abuse scandal  was compounded by BBC s own cover-up of the serious claims. The Savile scandal and cover-up featured many whistleblowers and victims coming forward, and also showed a high degree of cover-up at the police department level as well.While observing the connective aspects of various scandals, DC s political scene has also revealed some telling business and establishment links which raise even more interesting questions   MEDIA MACHINE    Democratic political operative David Brock. (Image Source: twitter)There are some interesting aspects of pizzagate which have been almost untouched by internet sleuths.Below we ll take a look at George Soros-funded Media Matters and its director David Brock and examine his past connections and tangential links to both Barney Frank and James Alefantis Media Matters  & Political PlotsIn 1997, political operative David Brock was once a right-wing media hit-man so to speak, writing conservative op-ed s taking on college campus  marxists  and was an investigative reporter for the weekly news magazine Insight on the News (published by The Washington Times). Some time later, Brock became a Democratic political operative and Soros righthand man at Media Matters.Some reports also claim that Brock (seen on the left with Barney Frank) joined on with Sidney Blumenthal and the Clintons simply over money   but others suggest a different tale   one that took place during the course of Brock completing a somewhat strange book entitled  The Seduction of Hillary Clinton,  which deflected controversies aimed at the Clintons and took a softball approach to Hillary s political evolution.Over the years, many critics have questioned Brock s hidden Washington past and his unlikely political evolution Blackmail? Brock, Grey & AlefantisIn 2012, FOX NEWS revealed the following, as Media Matters chief David Brock paid a former domestic partner $850,000 after being threatened with damaging information involving the organization s donors and the IRS   a deal that Brock later characterized as a blackmail payment, according to legal documents obtained by FoxNews.com. Brock s bitter separation from William Grey led to accusations of blackmail and harassment: In an acrimonious lawsuit settled at the end of last year, Brock accused William Grey of making repeated threats to expose him to the  scorn or ridicule of his employees, donors and the press in demanding money and property.  Brock claimed in legal papers that he sold a Rehoboth Beach, Del., home he once shared with Grey in order to meet Grey s demands, which he called  blackmail  in the lawsuit. Brock s legal trouble with Grey appeared to be the result of a severed relationship after 10 years, with Brock ending the relationship, he began dating Washington, D.C., restaurant impresario James Alefantis,  according to reports.Considering how Brock and Grey s end played out according to court records revealed by the media, one might consider that this latest DC drama unfolding in the form of pizzagate, could also be the result of bad-jacketing (as suggested by the blog auticulture) after a bitter love triangle involving the trio   in the lead up to one of the most contentious US presidential elections in history.According to Ward Churchill s,  Agents of Repression: The FBI s Secret Wars Against the Black Panther Party and the American Indian Movement: Snitch-jacketing or bad-jacketing refers to the practice creating suspicion   through the spread of rumors, manufacture of evidence etc Bad-jacketing had been a technique employed by the FBI under their program COINTELPRO.Domestically in America, the FBI created the counter-intelligence program known as COINTELPRO, to influence, disrupt and coerce political factions from the inside out, infiltrating countless political groups and movements. According to reports these included the following,  The Black Panther Party, The Communist Party of America, the Ku Klux Klan, the Socialist Workers Party, the New Left, the Students for a Democratic Society, the American Indian Movement, the Chicano Movement, the Puerto Rican Liberation Movement, Communist groups, anti-war organizations, Hollywood stars sympathetic to these groups, and civil rights leaders. Between 1956 and 1971 the FBI s controversial program influenced and radicalized hundreds of left-wing and right-wing groups to control and neutralize political dissidents across America. No part of politics was immune to COINTELPRO.Is it possible that a DC love triangle that once involved Brock, Grey & Alefantis, led to a PR-driven form (as a part of Brock s Correct the Record or something else) of bad-jacketing which then cascaded through the Democratic Party elite, ultimately taking its triangle shape   through the use of pizzagate and others? MEDIA CONTROL    (Photo illustration redesigned by 21WIRE s Shawn Helton)Censorship & the  Fake News  Witch-HuntIn early November, just prior to the US presidential election, CNN published an article stating the following: A recent BuzzFeed study of  hyperpartisan Facebook pages  found that these pages  are consistently feeding their millions of followers false or misleading information. Three weeks later in a republished article written by Robert Parry from Consortium News, it was disclosed that major media companies had been heavily involved in pushing the fake news meme, citing many election-based posts made online as the culprit: In its lead editorial on Sunday, The New York Times decried what it deemed  The Digital Virus Called Fake News  and called for Internet censorship to counter this alleged problem, taking particular aim at Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg for letting  liars and con artists hijack his platform. Below is a passage from a recent report filed at 21WIRE discussing the fake news witch-hunt, which has now led to new calls for internet censorship: Over the past month, The Washington Post published an irresponsible propaganda piece that blamed the 2016 US election results on  fake news  dispensed via sophisticated Russian propaganda. These accusations of course were completely unfounded, deliberately feeding into a paranoid trial by media format that is no doubt echoed by US government sock puppet accounts that act as a digital firing squad by redirecting public perception.While the US mainstream media contends that  fake news  somehow altered the 2016 presidential election cycle, it s important to remember that the US government has some pedigree here, having been behind the creation of bogus social media accounts and personalities for years now.Back in 2011, The UK s Guardian reported that the US government via CENTCOM, was looking to gain a foothold over information shared on the internet through fake online personal accounts: The discovery that the US military is developing false online personalities   known to users of social media as  sock puppets    could also encourage other governments, private companies and non-government organisations to do the same.The Centcom contract stipulates that each fake online persona must have a convincing background, history and supporting details, and that up to 50 US-based controllers should be able to operate false identities from their workstations  without fear of being discovered by sophisticated adversaries . This is just one example. Who really knows how widespread this practice is.You can expect a litany of allegations to continue from the mainstream, along with their faux war on fake news sites which has been used deliberately to discredit and frame genuine investigative analysis in alternative media, its intended target. Western media s anti-Russian hyperbole has morphed and broadened somewhat, thanks to Facebook, Google and Twitter and the alphabet establishment news agencies, Washington has a new go-to scapegoat joining the tired old Russian  hack  meme   independent media. SEE ALSO: Washington Post Sloppy  Journalism  Blames Russia for  Fake News  Crisis and Trump s Win, While Pushing Neo-McCarthyismIt appears as though there has been a coordinated effort to combine the latest run of conspiracies in America, whether it s the fake news meme, the  Russian election-hack  meme or pizzagate    they all seem to be have been used to undermine key aspects of internet freedom.Below is an interview with James Alefantis featured on Megyn Kelly s Kelly File discussing the highly speculative pizzagate theory. During Kelly s interview, the focus centered around unsubstantiated claims levied at the business owner and his place of business Here s a very detailed analysis provided by researcher David Icke discussing the multi-layered theories wrapped up in the pizzagate conspiracy and its relation to censorship and so-called  fake news In ConclusionThe overtly conspiracy-tinged pizzagate theory, emerged like a hydra out of sub-Reddit and 4chan threads and Twitter posts, while catapulting only the most sensational aspects into the mainstream matrix. The story conjures many Hollywood and government tales of cover-up, murder, abuse and deception throughout history.The perceived presence of a politically charged Satanic sex-cult intertwined within a paedophilic abuse ring, seemed to have only enhanced the narrative for many internet-sleuths, who in some cases, held steadfast to a biased guilt-by-association meme   even in the absence of any known victims, and without any forensic evidence or any eye-witness testimony of a crime.This is not to suggest that VIP child sex rings and ritual abuse cases do not exist in America. One such murder spree, known as the  Son of Sam  case, was reopened in part due to evidence of Satanic cult activity and multiple offenders. Although the findings were suspended, the case was never officially closed.While people should certainly have the ability to express their opinion about pizzagate without shame or ridicule, using biased, misleading or fraudulent information (in some cases dispensing defamatory or threatening remarks) in a rapid-fire echo chamber, could ultimately undermine any legitimate investigation if there truly was a crime committed here, or elsewhere. If that is the ultimate legacy of pizzagate, then it is a devastating self-inflicted wound for the alternative media.While it s true that sites like Reddit and Twitter could cite the 1996 Communications Decency Act, as a protection for hosting defamatory information posts by users, there could be real consequences for those deliberately posting defamatory content with no real evidence to substantiate such allegations.Another risk with a whirlwind like this, is that it would be very easy for an agent provocateur to post a slick YouTube video or craft an article   with the intention of whipping-up a storm that could be used to damage independent media as a whole. It s very possible that this has already happened at some point over the life of the internet, and it s certain that the powers that be will use this tactic again in the future.Above all however, it s important to separate the fallout from the pizzagate story and other fake news allegations, as those in mainstream media such as The New York Times, The Washington Post and the self-anointed  fact checker Snopes.com, seem to have propped up this pizzeria conspiracy as a battle cry to introduce the idea of new internet censorship protocols.It s anybody s guess what will be the final outcome of the #Pizzagate phenomenon, but for the moment, it seems to have collapsed under the weight of its own mountain of digital ash. Maybe that was the idea. READ MORE MSM LIES AT: 21st Century Wire MSM FilesSUPPORT 21WIRE  SUBSCRIBE NOW & BECOME A MEMBER @21WIRE.TVUS_News
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accusations still failed yield solid forensic results intelligence mere political gamesmanship work could covering diverting public away explosive events polite express in jeffrey eastern convicted soliciting underage girl prostitution image source as internet researches battle mainstream media allegations pizzagate another potentially much bigger story became buried digital avalanche if indeed case benefits the polite express scandalseemingly even unsettling disturbing vastly underreported polite express scandal stirling around clinton jeffrey eastern billionaire hedge fund mogul also member bilateral commission council foreign relations well playing role formation clinton global initiative effectively walked free even though indictment could landed prison years according reports eastern gatsbyesque persona described new york magazine long since given way new profile convicted superstar condemned italy legal troubles due reports ghostly serial abuse past year election cycle coverage concerning new details associated eastern private island little james allegations sex slave entertainment enterprise virtually buried us corporate drop coverage mainstream media likely due eastern close affiliation former president bill clinton according flight manifests supporting evidence took least trips aboard polite express even apparently pitching secret service detail least five flights according records obtained it stop either other names linked eastern case included former democratic governor bill richardson kurt domain widow courtney love prominent celebrity lawyer israeli advocate harvard law professor alan dershowitz british royal prince andrew former israeli prime minister had bark even donald trump the black book eastern flight records little black book paint intriguing picture image source gawker interesting eastern case covered heavily gawker news outlets facing bankruptcy following defamation case hulk hogan terrace gene ballet controversial publication wrestling icon sex tape hogan legal victory took gawker could real reason eastern coverage here gawker said eastern case donald trump courtney love former israeli prime minister had bark alan dershowitz may identified butler potential material witnesses pedophile billionaire jeffrey eastern crimes young girls according copy eastern little black book obtained annotated copy address book also contains entries alec baldwin ralph tienne griffin dune new york post gossip richard johnson ted kennedy david koch filmmaker andrew jarecki manner people might expect billionaire know turned court proceedings eastern former house manager alfred rodriguez tried sell about entries including many eastern suspected victims accomplices well trump love bark dershowitz others circled rodriguez the existence book previously reported daily mail gawker publishing full first time redacted addresses telephone numbers email addresses last names individuals may underage victims according fbi affidavit rodriguez described address book information contained within holy rail golden nugget traveling eastern sprawling network eastern reportedly also additional ties trump men implicated separate jane doe sexual assault lawsuit recently dropped us court system apparently third time since washington times discusses clients allegedly used eastern services including member british royal family the following passage report filed january and even eastern kept relationships leading recent emergence news involves allegations provided prince andrew sexual services american girl virginia roberts filed federal lawsuit florida eastern alleging forced serve sex slave paid perform sexual services prince new york post reported here sean stone rt watching hawks interviewing condita spinoff executive director the alliance rescue victims trafficking discuss eastern venous past another strange turn clinton email scandal came late election days voters went polls suddenly revealed media outlets due investigation setting scandal involving disgraced former representative anthony einer husband chief clinton aide human adenine fbi director james come would announce agency would reopening clinton email according recent interview breitbart news hillary clinton alleged taken trips eastern little saint james island according private security kingpin blackwater founder erik prince prior election right fbi reopened investigation clinton promptly shut second time controversial mercenary made extraordinary important readers note explosive revelation truly yet one word either mainstream media alternative media outside breitbart blogs potentially devastating allegation prince asserted nypd found way stuff within recently scrutinized emails the news reportedly sent shock waves upper echelon democratic party clinton campaign nypd said ready hand indictments additional criminal activity possibly involving money laundering underage sex among illicit commentary democratic party apparent corruption released around time batch modesta emails sent internet sleuths pizzagate rabbit hole prince claim seem granted onto pizzagate theory youtube commentators without actual concrete early embattled blackwater renamed academic xe founder prince subject inquiry alleged involved major money laundering scheme bank china libya in prince supposedly setup frontier services group help major chinese investment firm critic group when factor prince became subject major scandal offensive hard know whether claims true political ploy aimed reflecting controversy however claims offer dark view political party downward spiral several chaffwith mind true investigation take place facts still need separated might innuendo overt apparent conspiracies also brought fold ascendancy pizzagate social media users seemed make startling connections although without complete story the lack coherence pizzagate allegations opened door usual suspects come steer conversation away potentially damaging connections back clinton establishment gatekeeper publication the daily beast reported following passage written user pleadingtheyiff post attempts link clinton campaign laura silly idaho missionary served prison sentence haiti organization founded new life children refuge attempted transport haiti children dominican republic haiti user primary proof links clinton silly human begin constantly forwarding hillary articles woman organization the post provides email sent clinton begin regarding theory includes major error one first things hillary took scene haiti get laura hook pleadingtheyiff writes links website called silly freed instead remained incarcerated haiti faced trial found guilty the nine missionaries jailed alongside freed is possible laura silly case buried endless collateral damage pizzagate with even damning american conspiracies dnc fraud violent protests funded george sorts pentagon paying pr firm bell pottinger million produce fake terror videos addition polite express revelations concerning clinton particular wonder whether pizzagate theory unintended coincidence yet another socially engineered agenda masked media obvious however pizzagate story controversies appear obfuscated real criminality contained within modesta email leaks providing media smoke screen conspiracies mentioned directly article take another look pizzagate phenomena along comet ping pong gunman story addition one washington dc notorious scandals events surrounding online conspiracy could used shape new censorship protocols wake us media fake news sites leaked john modesta former chairman hillary clinton presidential campaign pictured clinton chief aid human begin clinton campaign jet spirit cooking pizzagate a within contents controversial modesta dispatch wikileaks early november appeared stressing email chain tony modesta top democratic lobbyist modesta group brother john modesta hillary clinton campaign chairman new york serbian performance artist named marina email exchange tony modesta marina abramovic image left drew sharp outcry users social media platforms like twitter reddit email conversation revealed dinner party involving performance ritual calling use real human blood bodily fluids referred spirit cooking while abramovic art could seen sick deeply disturbing many even degenerate depravity important emphasize nothing criminal email tony modesta dark creations captured video early two decades origins abramovic spirit cooking appeared researchers linked directly cloister crowned thema religion this prompted alternative media outlets link everpedia primary source explain truth behind spirit cooking the conspiracy ultimately led increased speculation even spurious major magnet pizzagate researchers abramovic book published grandmother performance art released book entitled spirit cooking essential aphrodisiac recipes rare book contained sequence etchings reverted theories spirit cooking exploded social media series modesta emails leaked containing thought coded language concealing elite underground child sex ring according online sites mega forums citing reddit addition appears series emails released wikileaks partially led one man james alefantis owner comet ping pong become central pizzagate antagonist the fact alefantis listed one dc top influential people fuelled speculation internet case slam dunk social media inquisitors shared pictures instagram account alefantis blocked public friends contacts linked attempt conclude vast conspiracy while many images appeared disturbing context two conspiracies mentioned images prove actual crime taken conspiracy deepened symbols washington dc comet ping pong derived menu logo well pizza restaurants addition apparent coded modesta emails sparked outcry social media symbols used appeared mimic according wikileaks release supposedly fbi the apparent leaked release fbi disclosed certain markers sex trafficking abuse cases while might similarities graphics observed comet ping pong nearby best pizza evidence still purely circumstantial certainly nothing conclusively linking pizzerias abuse ring internet trawlers also claimed unearthed photos digging secret underneath comet ping pong claim later turned one planted detail pizzagate story evocative image secret basement reserved child torture abuse sent story orbit this one example one two simple details injected storyline inflamed narrative motivate forum users beyond real forensic investigation could creating virtual fact revealed comet uses refrigerator buck fishing camping alefantis restaurant two doors block store produce cheese roofing dough see left photo cilia kang it worth noting also behind one speculative claims surrounding story allegedly involved patent holders tech company freestyle semiconductor turned false conversely provided valuable information like wake boston bombing users posted number photos indicating presence operatives involved event point totally us authorities website said struggling survive financially part increased users driven viral material like often misleading information spread social media users pizzagate narrative took shape media tripwireas us media brushed perceived content modesta emails mentioned ground swell speculation hyperbole unsubstantiated claims filled vacuum online enthusiasm continued also important recognize one main propellers initial pizzagate story popular disinformation website called your news wire regularly feed public completely fake news stories online get propagated social media this website successfully managed fool many online readers regularly mix real news articles many invented stories a viral fake story like would netted your news wire tens thousands dollars ad click reports on white supremacy twitter account presents belonging jewish lawyer new york tweeted nypd looking evidence emails anthony einer laptop contained evidence clinton involvement international child enslavement ring the next day sean used work british conspiracy theorist david ice took note message board post tweet he wrote post site his story took another step claiming fbi insider confirmed claims where new fbi source come cited thread message board back july that thread started anonymous user invited questions describing themself person intimate knowledge inner workings clinton case respond questions sent buzzfeed news by point story became viral ball fire stopping wonder spirit emails might used tripwire establishment initiate increased internet censorship story gathered big boost highly speculative ideas pasted together various social media personalities youtube codified large popular outlets like levied unconfirmed allegations comet ping pong restaurant private businesses affluent area washington conspiracies recent years generated much public outrage scrutiny intense speculation however question timing conspiracy relates cyber censorship table following fake news bbc stated following modesta email thread leaked november mentioned alefantis connection in early november wikileaks steadily released piles emails clinton campaign chairman john modesta one contact caught attention prankster sites people paranoid alefantis owner comet ping pong pizza restaurant washington he also big democratic party supporter raised money barack obama hillary clinton he relationship david brock influential liberal never met clinton appeared modesta emails connection fundraisers other claims attached pizzagate theory included link tweet deceased investigative reporter andrew breitbart the pizzagate theory seemed gather steam screenshot alleged breitbart tweet story upon reviewing origins breitbart tweet intertwined pizzagate theory appears contention breitbart might referencing here political blog hot air matter it classic andrew tweet his abbreviations invention words tells probably andrew work i never really knew allow anyone tweet behalf i suppose possible point without knowledge so discussion let stimulate andrew sent what talking anyone knew andrew well worked closely sphere knew would talk tweet regard underage sex slave john modesta knows exactly referring acorn if remember james o keep hanna files acorn story broke andrew big government website quick description via wikipedia lot bogus takes story brief description correct in july august files o keep visited acorn offices baltimore washington brooklyn san bernardino san diego philadelphia los angeles miami files dressed prostitute o keep wore white khaki blue dress shirt tie claimed boyfriend files o keep recorded encounters using hidden cameras pretended seeking advice run illegal business included use underage girls sex trade the article goes state acorn saga instrumental breitbart rise media aspect involved underage abuse story due undercover work james o keep hannah files strange days comet ping pong resides quiet affluent dc neighborhood image source chicago the comet ping pong gunman early december actor edgar madison welsh arrested authorities reportedly discharging rifle inside alefantis comet ping pong restaurant welsh apparently comet ping pong pizzeria epicenter shocking conspiracy asserting establishment somehow allegedly involved expansive child trafficking abuse background may raised eyebrows chronicled profiles various gunman recent years production past documented imdb also recently involved major traffic accident october badly injuring young teenager potentially impacting state mind well exposed potential criminal outlined possibility informants used shooting events past usually individuals lengthy criminal past multiple links government military sometimes entertainment industry welsh entirely fit typical mold convict turned informant agent another answer the online site released following information regarding welsh father work preventing child abduction harry welsh former police officer firearms instructor expert witness firearms according imdb profile he also writes family hosted foster children worked prevent child elected president north carolina crime shoppers association two terms served executive director national organization prevent abuse abduction children appointed governor jim martin governor commission child victimization was welsh psychological dress following recent car accident feeding aspects life father work prevent child abuse motivated action online conspiracy although difficult accurately gauge welsh true motivation youtube personalities absolutely contend involvement scripted smear new burgeoning pizzagate research community online additionally researchers cite welsh relief visit haiti absolute proof hoax alleged clinton foundation ties human trafficking haiti claims date yet completely part pizzagate conspiracy gained steam monica peterson activist rights summer working claude estref executive director human trafficking center university denver apparently died suicide mid november haiti however time circumstances death entirely clear led intense speculation grounded fact if evidence foul play certainly could investigated part possible especially hotly contested us election involving clinton issue resolved talk proof wider conspiracy still peterson tragedy granted onto pizzagate story the washington post reported following according executive director estref peterson gone haiti number times research human trafficking investigating clinton foundation he said brilliant research fellow working past two years produce still unpublished article critiqued controversial book business sex trafficking siddharth kara unfortunately peterson story got packaged allegations clinton trafficking conspiracy interwoven within pizzagate theory day welsh walked comet ping pong site posted youtube video titled haiti pizzagate death child trafficking investigator without actually confirming full details surrounding peterson death everpedia one first websites explain details spirit cooking appeared also fan flames alleged conspiracy surrounding peterson abc news release disclosed full details regarding welsh apparent criminal activity comet ping pong at around arrived restaurant witnesses say saw welsh holding assault rifle across chest according complaint as moved toward back restaurant employees customers fled everyone fleeing welsh encountered employee returning back freezer according court documents the employee said welsh pointed rifle direction documents state welsh denied raising firearm customers employees left restaurant police created perimeter around welsh exited building hands air complying officers the story continued following description at one point said encountered locked door attempted open butter knife complaint says when work fired shots lock documents say here screen shot welsh incident report mm fake news mainstream media pizzagate gift kept welsh encounter inside comet ping pong conspiracy known pizzagate fallen manipulative hands corporate mainstream media captivating speculative alternative media outlets gave legs already convoluted fake news waged mainstream media specifically aimed independent outlets blogs regularly produce insightful critical since spirit cooking pizzagate theories merging solid evidence linking restaurant anything criminal yet theories continue persist online implications private citizens point victimless crime this made alternative media easy target mainstream media politicians calling control social media content help stop what mainstream pundits describing pizzagate campaign online abuse internet bullying comet ping pong owner legal stand point pizzagate conspiracy could also potentially lead court case root cause certain defamatory allegations apparent death threats alefantis shop owners private citizens public figures this something consider presenting possible theory directly implications individual major felony unless exists real forensic smoking gun whistleblower willing come forward case speculation could construed libel defamation without supporting internet conspiracies past two months important remember washington long dark history linked illicit prostitution sex trafficking including least two expansive cases reached way white house disgraced former us congressman barney frank frank seek found engineered million trap bailout reunited bank image source washington silence congressman frank call boys in democratic congressman barney frank decided seek while much mainstream media axed poetic career virtually mention involvement one notable dc scandals past three discovered frank boyfriend stephen movie us representative solicited dollar sexual encounter running prostitution ring congressman frank capitol hill apartment according movie barney frank fully aware passage business insider article describes one dc darkest scandals barely mentioned media outlets day reuters mention the new york times bring the guardian note either the washington post got discovered barney frank boyfriend stephen movie frank hired male prostitute running congressman home frank claimed know prostitution ring home use power office fix tickets movie and knowingly wrote misleading letter movie probation officer virginia frank received reprimand fixing tickets movie maintained frank knew prostitution ring operation home even writers absolutely troubled openly homosexual lawmaker thought frank resigned or least acknowledged abuse office additionally washington post reported movie maintained relationship gabriel massacre principal they chase elementary school used office school late make telephone calls one client meet prostitute while massacre placed administrative leave conspiracy deepened washington post followed breaking story providing following details with congress recess soon tell massachusetts democrat weather admission paid movie sex hired personal aide wrote letters congressional stationary convicted felon probation officer shocking scandal continued persist investigation led political inquiries frank scandal appeared overlap detail another disturbing ring reached way white house franklin barney frank scandal indeed followed another appalling chilling scandal dubbed franklin the shocking case involving omaha nebraska franklin credit union employee named lawrence king looted employer tune million dollars here washington post article matter lawrence king everyone agrees remarkable knack stretching dollar on salary year credit union manager drove white mercedes still could afford spend month limousine his credit card charges topped million owned house acres overlooking missouri river floral bill alone came fragrant period while king embezzlement troublesome pale comparison wider charge trafficking abuse levied credit union manager the post continued outlining awful truth abuse tied king group called franklin five in june social worker mental hospital omaha reported allegations possible child abuse nebraska foster care review board agency monitors placement several thousand children board subsequently asked omaha police state attorney general investigate possible child exploitation child prostitution ring inappropriate activities larry king more evidence report revealed following hours videotape testimony three new witnesses early twenties said minors victims physical sexual abuse the book entitled the franklin former nebraska state senator lawyer john de camp chronicled case implicated politicians judges military police well members intelligence community subsequent abduction numerous children course many king eventually convicted charges theft franklin credit union ordered pay damages paul bonacci apparent abuse suffered abduction bonacci later told investigators participated abduction johnny coach according poll county attorney john sarcoma the des mines register bonacci said took part johnny coach abduction sarcoma said investigators concluded involvement bonacci credible here short summary disturbing case on february district court lincoln nebraska extraordinary hearing occurred paul bonacci lawrence king civil action plaintiff charged ritualistically abused defendant part nationwide pedophile ring linked powerful political figures washington elements military intelligence establishment three weeks later february judge warren from ordered king currently federal prison pay million damages bonacci bonacci attorney john became said clear signal evidence presented credible the frank franklin conspiracies outlined sent shock waves establishment washington possible seeing another trafficking happening today one consider thus far victims found abused regarding comet ping pong business wrapped within online pizzagate franklin documentary called conspiracy silence made allegedly pulled circulation following fallout case also implicated catholic founded orphanage boys related scandal exposed the boston globe spotlight team first revealed leader catholic church boston cardinal bernard law allowed one priests continue working even though law knew fr john meghan spent career sexually assaulting children the story became huge led priests publicly named abuse allegations covering cities us another globally in hollywood released film spotlight chronicled tales uk past years investigation jimmy save abuse scandal compounded bbc serious claims the save scandal featured many whistleblowers victims coming forward also showed high degree police department level observing connective aspects various scandals dc political scene also revealed telling business establishment links raise even interesting questions media machine democratic political operative david brock image source twitter there interesting aspects pizzagate almost untouched internet take look george media matters director david brock examine past connections tangential links barney frank james alefantis media matters political protein political operative david brock media speak writing conservative taking college campus marxists investigative reporter weekly news magazine insight news published the washington times some time later brock became democratic political operative sorts righthand man media reports also claim brock seen left barney frank joined sydney blumenthal clinton simply money others suggest different tale one took place course brock completing somewhat strange book entitled the seduction hillary clinton deflected controversies aimed clinton took softball approach hillary political years many critics questioned brock hidden washington past unlikely political evolution blackmail brock grey alefantisin fox news revealed following media matters chief david brock paid former domestic partner threatened damaging information involving organization donors irs deal brock later characterized blackmail payment according legal documents obtained brock bitter separation william grey led accusations blackmail harassment in acrimonious lawsuit settled end last year brock accused william grey making repeated threats expose scorn ridicule employees donors press demanding money property brock claimed legal papers sold rehoboth beach home 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Your task is to classify the provided input as real or fake news. Label 0 is meant for fake news, Label 1 is for real news. TEXT: MEDIA TRIPWIRE? Ping Pong Pizza Conspiracy Propels Internet Censorship Amid ‘Fake News’ Witch-Hunt Funny how secrets travel. I d start to believe, if I were to bleed.    Lyrics written by David Bowie from the album OutsideShawn Helton 21st Century Wire In the days before the US presidential election in November 2016, Wikileaks revealed a new string of emails connected to Hillary Clinton s 2016 campaign chairman, John Podesta. Online interpretations of the leaked Podesta email exchanges subsequently led to a digital firestorm on social media, producing an intense conspiratorial  open source investigation  still in search of its smoking gun. However, the phenomenon now known by its hashtag #Pizzagate has since set a number of tertiary events into motion. Is there a real story hidden amongst the debris of this online explosion?Is it possible that  open source investigators  were being led into a virtual cul-de-sac and thus missing the real story?More importantly, could people be playing into the hands of the very establishment they seek to depose?Let s investigate   SHOCK & AWE    Over the past month, the DC-based restaurant Comet Ping Pong, along with Besta Pizza (to a lesser degree Austin s East Side Pies) has been the subject of a peculiar internet-based conspiracy. (Photo Illustration Shawn Helton of 21WIRE)CONTEXT: Podesta Emails, False Hacks & ConspiracyWhile many of the leaked Podesta emails (including the really important one admitting that US partners Qatar and Saudi Arabia are giving funding and  logistical support  of ISIS) caused a major stir in the run-up to the 2016 Election, few Wikileaks releases have attracted more attention then the Podesta emails associated with the internet-based conspiracy dubbed  Pizzagate. In fact, since the release of the so-called  pizzagate  emails, a bundle of leaks and media reports associated with the Clintons political pay-for-play allegations, as well as the shocking admission regarding voter fraud from disgraced Democratic National committee consultant Robert Creamer prior to the 2016 presidential election, have all but disappeared from the mainstream narrative. Very convenient, if you are part of the Democratic Party establishment.Remember that all of this was taking place right after the mainstream media along with the White House, set the stage for a massive PR push implicating Russia as a disrupting force for evil in the US presidential election   allegedly through Kremlin-sponsored hacking of US democratic institutions and through  sophisticated Russian propaganda. In August, the western media s claims against Russia hit overdrive, when the  New York Times s Moscow bureau was the target of an attempted cyber attack this month. But so far, there is no evidence that the hackers, believed to be Russian, were successful. Flash forward to September here and here, as well as early October in the lead up to President Obama s Russian Hack decree, the Clinton-friendly outlet, the NY Times, had all but solidified the Russian cyber-hack claims   but once again, without any definitive evidence or proof.Throw in another American  October surprise  in the form distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks, renewed calls for the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) internet, led to so-called cyber experts blaming the largest  hack on America  because of the inability to pass SOPA   in effect, reigniting the previously stalled SOPA in Washington DC, along with all of its draconian copyright law positions   all perfectly timed as mainstream reports regarding  fake news suddenly became all the rage across all forms of media.The media clips on YouTube below illustrate the kind of duplicitous double speak regarding the  election rigging  that has become a hallmark of the Obama administration and establishment Washington Following 2016 s US presidential election cycle, a Russian election-hack-theory gained even more media traction, orbiting the political realm like a low-hanging fruit (propelled by President Obama and now the CIA, both conflicting with the FBI s assessment in October), dovetailing with the first grumblings that  fake news  had somehow decided the US presidential election in favor of one candidate, Donald Trump. These are serious accusations that have still failed to yield any solid forensic results from the intelligence community.Is this mere political gamesmanship, or is there more at work?Could this all be covering up and diverting the public away from some other explosive events?  LOLITA EXPRESS    In 2008, Jeffery Epstein was convicted of soliciting an underage girl for prostitution (Image Source: miamibeachadvocate.com)As internet researches battle with mainstream media over allegations in #Pizzagate, another potentially much bigger story became buried under the digital avalanche. If this is indeed the case, then who benefits?The  Lolita Express  ScandalSeemingly even more unsettling and disturbing in 2016, was the vastly underreported  Lolita Express  scandal swirling around the Clinton Campaign.In 2010, Jeffery Epstein, a billionaire hedge fund mogul who is also a member of the Trilateral Commission and the Council on Foreign Relations (as well as playing a role in the formation of the Clinton Global Initiative), effectively walked free even though a 53-page indictment could have landed him in prison for 20 years according to reports. Epstein s  Gatsbyesque  persona once described by New York magazine, has long since given way to a new profile as a convicted sex-offender  a superstar who was now condemned by a litany of legal troubles due to reports of ghastly serial abuse during the past decade.However, during this year s election cycle, coverage concerning new details associated with Epstein s private island, Little St. James, and allegations of sex slave entertainment enterprise there, was virtually buried by the US corporate media.The drop in wall-to-wall coverage from the tongue-tied mainstream media was most likely due to Epstein s close affiliation to former President Bill Clinton, who according flight manifests and other supporting evidence, took  at least 26 trips aboard the  Lolita Express    even apparently ditching his Secret Service detail for at least five of the flights, according to records obtained by FoxNews.com. It doesn t stop there either. Other high-profile names linked to the Epstein case included former Democratic governor Bill Richardson, Kurt Cobain widow Courtney Love, prominent celebrity lawyer, Israeli advocate and Harvard Law professor Alan Dershowitz, British royal Prince Andrew, former Israeli prime minister Ehud Barak, and even president-elect Donald Trump.  THE BLACK BOOK     Epstein flight records and  a little black book  paint a very intriguing picture. (Image Source: Gawker)Interestingly, the Epstein case was covered heavily by Gawker   a news outlets which is now facing bankruptcy following a defamation case won by Hulk Hogan (Terrence Gene Bollea) over the controversial publication of the wrestling icon s sex tape. Hogan s legal victory  took Gawker out  but could the real reason have been its Epstein coverage? Here s some of what Gawker said about the Epstein case: Donald Trump, Courtney Love, former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak, and uber-lawyer Alan Dershowitz may have been identified by a butler as potential  material witnesses  to pedophile billionaire Jeffrey Epstein s crimes against young girls, according to a copy of Epstein s little black book obtained by Gawker.An annotated copy of the address book, which also contains entries for Alec Baldwin, Ralph Fiennes, Griffin Dunne, New York Post gossip Richard Johnson, Ted Kennedy, David Koch, filmmaker Andrew Jarecki, and all manner of other people you might expect a billionaire to know, turned up in court proceedings after Epstein s former house manager Alfredo Rodriguez tried to sell it in 2009. About 50 of the entries, including those of many of Epstein s suspected victims and accomplices as well as Trump, Love, Barak, Dershowitz, and others, were circled by Rodriguez. (The existence of the book has been previously reported by the Daily Mail. Gawker is publishing it in full here for the first time; we have redacted addresses, telephone numbers, email addresses, and the last names of individuals who may have been underage victims.)According to an FBI affidavit, Rodriguez described the address book and the information contained within it as the  Holy Grail  or  Golden Nugget  to unraveling Epstein s sprawling child-sex network. Epstein reportedly also had additional ties to Trump, with both men having on and off again been implicated in a separate Jane Doe  sexual assault lawsuit that was recently dropped in the US court system, apparently for a third time since 1994.The Washington Times discusses how other high-level clients allegedly used Epstein s services   including a member of the British royal family. The following passage is from a report filed in January of 2015: And even post-prison, Mr. Epstein kept up some of these high-profile relationships   leading to his most recent emergence in the news, which involves allegations that he provided Prince Andrew with sexual services from a then-17-year-old American girl, Virginia Roberts.Ms. Roberts, now 30, has filed a federal lawsuit in Florida against Mr. Epstein, alleging he forced her to serve as a  sex slave  and paid her $15,000 to perform sexual services for the prince, the New York Post reported. Here s Sean Stone from RT s Watching the Hawks interviewing Conchita Sarnoff, the Executive Director from The Alliance to Rescue Victims of Trafficking to discuss Epstein s heinous past Another strange turn in the Clinton Email scandal came late in the election, only days before voters went to the polls. Suddenly, it was revealed by media outlets that due to the investigation into the sexting scandal involving disgraced former U.S. Representative Anthony Weiner, (husband of chief Clinton aide Huma Abedine) FBI director James Comey would announce that the agency would be reopening the Clinton email probe.Interestingly, according to a recent interview with Breitbart News, Hillary Clinton herself was alleged to have taken 6 trips to Epstein s Little Saint James island, according to private security kingpin and Blackwater founder Erik Prince. Prior to the election and right after the FBI reopened its investigation into the Clintons (before promptly being shut down for a second time), the controversial mercenary made the extraordinary claim.It s important for readers to note how explosive this revelation truly was, and yet, not one word from either the mainstream media, or  alternative media,  outside of Breitbart and few other blogs, on this potentially devastating allegation. Prince asserted that the NYPD found  way more stuff  within the 650,000 recently scrutinized emails. The news reportedly sent shock waves into the upper echelon of the Democratic Party and the Clinton campaign   as the NYPD was said to have been ready to hand out indictments  into additional criminal activity, possibly involving money laundering and underage sex, among other illicit activity.Prince s commentary on the Democratic Party s apparent corruption was released around the same time as a batch of Podesta Emails that sent internet sleuths down a pizzagate rabbit hole. Prince s claim then seem to be grafted onto the pizzagate theory by some YouTube commentators, only without any actual concrete evidence.In early 2016, the embattled Blackwater (renamed Academi, and then Xe) founder Prince, was the subject of an inquiry that alleged he was involved in a major money laundering scheme with the Bank of China in Libya. In 2014, Prince supposedly setup  Frontier Services Group in 2014 with the help of major Chinese investment firm Citic Group. When you factor in how Prince himself became the subject of a major scandal and is now on the offensive, it s hard to know whether his claims are true or just a political ploy aimed at deflecting his own controversy. However, his claims do offer a dark view into a political party that has been in a downward spiral for several years.Wheat from the ChaffWith all of that in mind, for any true investigation to take place, the facts still need to be separated from what might only be innuendo and overt speculation.Other apparent conspiracies were also brought into the fold during the ascendency of #pizzagate, as social media users seemed to make some startling connections, although without a complete story. The lack of coherence of pizzagate allegations opened the door for some of the usual suspects to come in to steer the conversation away from some potentially damaging connections back to the Clintons. Establishment gatekeeper publication The Daily Beast reported the following in the passage below: Written by user  PleadingtheYiff,  the post attempts to link the Clinton campaign to Laura Silsby, an Idaho missionary who served a six-month prison sentence in Haiti after the organization she founded, New Life Children s Refuge, attempted to transport 33 Haitian children to the Dominican Republic after the 2010 Haiti earthquake.The user s primary proof of links between the Clintons and Silsby:  Huma Abedin was constantly forwarding Hillary articles on this woman s organization.  The post provides no email sent from Clinton to Abedin regarding the incident.The theory then includes a major error. One of the first things Hillary did when she took over the scene in Haiti was to get Laura off the hook,  PleadingtheYiff writes, then links to a website called  AboveTopSecret.com. Silsby wasn t freed and instead remained incarcerated in Haiti, where she faced trial and was found guilty. The nine other missionaries jailed alongside her were freed. Is it possible that the Laura Silsby case was buried under endless collateral damage from pizzagate?With even more damning American conspiracies in 2016, such as the DNC fraud, violent protests funded by George Soros, or the Pentagon paying PR firm Bell Pottinger $540 million to produce fake terror videos, in addition to the Lolita Express revelations concerning the Clintons in particular, you have to wonder whether the pizzagate theory was an unintended coincidence or if it was yet another socially engineered agenda that masked other media stories.What s most obvious, however, is how the pizzagate story and spin-off controversies appear to have obfuscated other real criminality contained within the Podesta email leaks, while providing a media smoke screen for the conspiracies mentioned directly above.In the article below we ll take another look at the pizzagate phenomena (along with Comet Ping Pong s gunman story, in addition to one of Washington DC s most notorious scandals) and how the events surrounding the online conspiracy, could be used to shape new censorship protocols in the wake of US media s witch-hunt for  fake news  sites   LEAKED    John Podesta former chairman for Hillary Clinton s 2016 presidential campaign, pictured with Clinton chief aid Huma Abedin on the Clinton campaign jet. Spirit Cooking & #Pizzagate: A Media-Driven Psy-Op?Within the contents of the controversial Podesta dispatch by Wikileaks in early November, there appeared to be a distressing email chain between Tony Podesta, a top Democratic lobbyist of the Podesta Group (brother of John Podesta, Hillary Clinton s campaign chairman) and a New York City-based Serbian performance artist named Marina Abramovic.The 2015 email exchange between Tony Podesta and Marina Abramovic (image, left) drew a sharp outcry from users on social media platforms like Twitter and Reddit, after the email conversation revealed a dinner party involving a performance art-based ritual calling for the use of real human blood and bodily fluids, referred to as  spirit cooking.   While Abramovic s occult-influenced art could be seen as sick and deeply disturbing to many, and even degenerate depravity to some   it s important to emphasize there was nothing criminal about her email with Tony Podesta or her dark creations captured on video from as early as two decades ago.The origins of Abramovic s spirit cooking appeared to some researchers to be linked directly to Aleister Crowley s, Thelma religion. This prompted some alternative media outlets to link to Everpedia as their primary source to explain the  truth  behind spirit cooking. The internet-based conspiracy ultimately led to increased speculation, turbo-charging even more spurious connections.Another major magnet for pizzagate researchers was Abramovic s book published in 1997, the self-proclaimed  grandmother  of performance art released a book entitled  Spirit Cooking with essential aphrodisiac recipes,   a rare book that contained a sequence of etchings and perverted recipes.As theories about spirit cooking exploded on social media, a series of Podesta emails were leaked containing what had been thought to be coded language concealing an elite underground child sex ring, according some quasi-investigative online sites and mega forums, citing 4chan and Reddit posts.In addition, it appears that a series of emails released by Wikileaks, here and here, are partially what led to one man, James Alefantis, owner of Comet Ping Pong, to become the central pizzagate antagonist. The fact that Alefantis is listed as one of DC s top 50 most influential people   only fuelled speculation that the internet case was  a slam dunk. Social media inquisitors shared pictures from the Instagram account of Alefantis (now blocked to the public) and other friends and contacts linked with him, in an attempt to conclude a vast conspiracy. While many of these images appeared disturbing in the context of the two conspiracies mentioned above, the images themselves did not prove any actual crime had taken place.As the conspiracy deepened, symbols from the Washington DC restaurant/venue Comet Ping Pong (derived from its menu and logo, as well as other pizza restaurants), in addition to apparent coded Podesta emails, sparked an outcry on social media as the symbols used appeared to mimic those according to a Wikileaks release supposedly from the FBI. The apparent leaked release from the FBI disclosed certain markers in sex trafficking and abuse cases. While there might be similarities in the graphics observed at Comet Ping Pong and nearby Besta Pizza, the evidence is still purely circumstantial and certainly nothing conclusively linking the DC-based pizzerias to any abuse ring. Internet trawlers also claimed to have unearthed photos of the digging of a secret basement-dungeon underneath Comet Ping Pong   a claim which later turned out to be false.Note that this one planted detail in the pizzagate story   the evocative image a  secret basement  reserved for child torture and abuse   sent this story into orbit. This is one example of how one or two simple details injected into a storyline can inflame the narrative and motivate forum users beyond what any real forensic investigation could, by creating a virtual crusade.In fact, it was revealed that  Comet uses a low-slung refrigerator at Buck s Fishing & Camping, Mr. Alefantis s other restaurant two doors down on the same block, to store produce, cheese and proofing dough.   (See left photo by Cecilia Kang)It s worth noting that 4chan was also behind one of the most speculative claims surrounding MH370, a story that allegedly involved the patent holders of the tech company Freescale Semiconductor which turned out to be false. Conversely, 4chan has provided some valuable crowd-sourced information, like in the wake of the 2013 Boston Bombing when 4chan users posted a number of photos indicating the presence of other operatives involved in the event   a point totally blacked-out by US authorities and media.Interestingly, the 4chan website is said to be  struggling to survive  financially in part because of increased users driven by viral and clickbait-like material like pizzagate.Through hyper-speculative and often misleading information spread by social media users, the pizzagate narrative took shape Media TripwireAs the US media brushed off the perceived content of the Podesta emails mentioned above, a ground swell of speculation, hyperbole and unsubstantiated claims filled the vacuum online, as enthusiasm continued unabated.It s also important to recognize that one of the main propellers of the initial Pizzagate story was a popular disinformation website called Your News Wire, who regularly feed the public with completely fake news stories online which get propagated through social media. This website has successfully managed to fool many online readers because it will regularly mix real news articles in with its many invented stories. A viral fake story like this would have netted  Your News Wire  tens of thousands of dollars in ad click revenue.BuzzFeed reports: On Oct. 30, a white supremacy Twitter account that presents itself as belonging to a Jewish lawyer in New York tweeted that the NYPD was looking into evidence that emails from Anthony Weiner s laptop contained evidence of Clinton involvement in an  international child enslavement ring. The next day, Oct. 31, Sean Adl-Tabatabai, who used to work with British conspiracy theorist David Icke, took note of the message board post and the tweet. He wrote a post for his site, YourNewsWire.com. His story took another step by claiming an  FBI insider  had confirmed the claims. Where did this this new FBI source come from? Adl-Tabatabai cited a thread on a 4chan message board from back in July. That thread started when an anonymous user invited questions after describing themself as  a person with intimate knowledge of the inner workings of the Clinton case.  (Adl-Tabatabai did not respond to questions sent to him by BuzzFeed News.) By this point, the story became a viral ball of fire, and there was no stopping it.You have to wonder if the spirit cooking/pizzagate emails, might have been used as a tripwire by the establishment to initiate increased internet censorship, a story that has gathered a big boost from highly speculative ideas pasted together by various social media personalities on YouTube and then codified by large popular  alt-media  outlets like Infowars.com here and here, who levied unconfirmed allegations at Comet Ping Pong restaurant and other private businesses in an affluent area of Washington DC.Few conspiracies in recent years have generated as much public outrage, scrutiny and intense speculation. However, we should question the timing of this conspiracy as it relates to the cyber censorship on the table following the  fake news  crisis.The BBC stated the following after a Podesta email thread leaked in November, mentioned the Alefantis connection: In early November, as Wikileaks steadily released piles of emails from Clinton s campaign chairman John Podesta, one contact caught the attention of prankster sites and people on the paranoid fringes.James Alefantis is the owner of Comet Ping Pong, a pizza restaurant in Washington. He s also a big Democratic Party supporter and raised money for both Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton. He was once in a relationship with David Brock, an influential liberal operative.Alefantis   who s never met Clinton   appeared in the Podesta emails in connection with the fundraisers. Other claims attached to the pizzagate theory included a link to a tweet from the deceased investigative reporter, Andrew Breitbart. The pizzagate theory seemed to gather steam from this screenshot of an alleged Breitbart tweet below   but is there more to the story?Upon reviewing the origins of the Breitbart tweet now intertwined with the pizzagate theory, there appears to be some contention about what Breitbart might have been referencing. Here s the political blog Hot Air on the matter: It s a classic Andrew Tweet. His abbreviations, his invention of words ( cover-upperer ) tells me that this was probably Andrew s work. I never really knew him to allow anyone to Tweet on his behalf but I suppose it s possible at some point he did so without my knowledge. So, for our discussion let s stipulate that it was Andrew who sent this out. What is he talking about? Anyone who knew Andrew well and worked closely in his sphere and knew what he would talk and Tweet about with regard to  underage sex slave(s)  and John Podesta, knows exactly what he is referring to: ACORN If you don t remember James O Keefe, Hanna Giles and the ACORN story that broke on Andrew s Big Government website in 2009, here s a quick description via Wikipedia, which has a lot of bogus takes on the story, but this brief description is correct: In July and August 2009, Giles and O Keefe visited ACORN offices in Baltimore, Washington, D.C., Brooklyn, San Bernardino, San Diego, Philadelphia, Los Angeles, and Miami. Giles dressed as a prostitute, while O Keefe wore white khakis with a blue dress shirt and/or tie and claimed to be her boyfriend. Giles and O Keefe recorded the encounters using hidden cameras and pretended to be seeking advice on how to run an illegal business that included the use of underage girls in the sex trade. The article goes on to state that the ACORN saga, which had been instrumental in Breitbart s rise in media, had been in some aspect involved an underage abuse story due to the undercover work of James O keefe and Hannah Giles.  STRANGE DAYS    Comet Ping Pong resides in a quiet affluent DC neighborhood. (Image Source: chicago sun-times)The Comet Ping Pong GunmanIn early December, 28 year-old actor Edgar Maddison Welch was arrested by authorities after reportedly discharging a rifle inside Alefantis s Comet Ping Pong restaurant. Welch had been apparently  self-investigating  Comet Ping Pong, the pizzeria at the epicenter of a shocking conspiracy asserting that the establishment is somehow allegedly involved in an expansive child trafficking abuse ring.Welch s background may have raised a few eyebrows of those who have chronicled the profiles of various gunman in recent years (such as his acting/film production past documented on IMDB), he was also recently involved in a major traffic accident in October, badly injuring a young teenager, potentially impacting his state of mind, as well as being exposed in a potential criminal case.While 21WIRE has outlined the possibility of informants being used in shooting events in the past   usually those individuals have had a lengthy criminal past with multiple links to government, military and sometimes the entertainment industry   Welch doesn t entirely fit this typical mold of a convict turned informant or agent provocateur.Perhaps there s another answer The online site Heavy.com released the following information regarding Welch s father and his work preventing child abductions: Harry Welch Jr. is a former police officer, firearms instructor and expert witness on firearms, according to his IMDB profile. He also writes that his family has hosted foster children and has worked to prevent child abuse.He was,  elected President of the North Carolina Crime Stoppers Association (two terms). Served as Executive Director for Protect-A-Child, a national, non-profit organization to prevent abuse and abduction of children. Appointed by Governor Jim Martin to the Governor s Commission on Child Victimization. Was Welch under psychological duress following his recent car accident, feeding into other aspects of his life, such as his father s work to prevent child abuse, then motivated into action by an online conspiracy?Although it s difficult to accurately gauge Welch s true motivation, some YouTube personalities absolutely contend that his involvement was scripted    to smear the a new burgeoning  pizzagate research community  online. Additionally, some researchers cite Welch s relief visit to Haiti in 2010, as absolute  proof of a hoax  because alleged Clinton Foundation ties to human trafficking in Haiti   claims that have to this date, have yet to be completely proven.This part of the pizzagate conspiracy gained steam when Monica Petersen, an activist for sex-worker rights, who over the summer was working for  Claude d Estree, the executive director of the Human Trafficking Center at the University of Denver,  apparently died of a suicide in mid November while in Haiti. However, at the time the circumstances of her death were not entirely clear, which led to intense speculation not grounded in fact. If there was evidence of foul play, certainly this could be investigated as part of a possible cover-up, especially during such a hotly contested US election involving the Clintons   but until that issue is resolved, any talk of  proof  of a wider conspiracy is still just that, talk.The Petersen tragedy was then grafted onto the pizzagate story The Washington Post reported the following, according to executive director d Estree:  Petersen had gone to Haiti a number of times, but she was not there to research human trafficking and was not investigating the Clinton Foundation. He said she had been a  brilliant  research fellow, working the past two years to produce a still unpublished article that critiqued a controversial book on the business of sex trafficking by Siddharth Kara. Unfortunately, Petersen s story got packaged with allegations of a Clinton trafficking conspiracy that was then interwoven within the pizzagate theory and on the same day Welch walked into Comet Ping Pong, the widely-known site Infowars.com  posted a YouTube video titled  Haiti PIZZAGATE: Death of Child Trafficking Investigator,  without actually confirming the full details surrounding Petersen s death. Everpedia, one of the first websites to explain the details of spirit cooking, appeared to also fan the flames of an alleged conspiracy surrounding Petersen s death.An ABC News release below disclosed the full details regarding Welch s apparent criminal activity at Comet Ping Pong: At around 3 p.m., he arrived at the restaurant, where witnesses say they saw Welch holding an assault rifle across his chest, according to the complaint. As he moved toward the back of the restaurant, employees and customers fled the building.As everyone was fleeing, Welch encountered an employee returning from the back freezer, according to court documents. The employee said Welch pointed the AR-15 rifle in his direction, the documents state, but Welch denied raising the firearm at the employee.After the customers and employees left the restaurant, police created a perimeter around it, and at about 3:24 p.m. Welch exited the building with his hands in the air, complying with officers. The story continued, with the following description: At one point he said he encountered a locked door and attempted to open it with a butter knife, the complaint says. When that didn t work, he fired shots at the lock with his AR-15, documents say. Here s a screen shot of Welch s incident report MSM Fake News Witch-HuntFor the mainstream media, pizzagate was the gift that just kept on giving.Following Welch s encounter inside Comet Ping Pong, the conspiracy known as  pizzagate  has fallen into the manipulative hands of the corporate mainstream media, now castigating  speculative alternative media outlets,  which in-turn gave legs to the already convoluted  fake news witch-hunt being waged by mainstream media   specifically aimed at independent outlets and blogs that regularly produce insightful critical analysis.Additionally, since the spirit cooking and pizzagate theories were merging, there has been no solid evidence linking the restaurant to anything criminal, yet the theories continue to persist online, implicating private citizens in what is at this point a  victimless  crime. This has made alternative media an easy target for mainstream media and politicians calling for more  control  over social media content to help stop waht mainstream pundits were now describing as pizzagate s own campaign online abuse and  internet bullying  against Comet Ping Pong s owner and staff.From a legal stand point, the pizzagate conspiracy could also potentially lead to a court case against the root cause of certain defamatory allegations and apparent death threats   as Alefantis and other shop owners are private citizens and not public figures. This is something to consider when presenting any possible theory directly implicating an individual in a major felony. Unless there exists a real forensic smoking gun, or a whistleblower willing to come forward then there is no  case    only speculation which could be construed as libel and defamation without any supporting evidence.While the internet has zeroed-in on pizzeria-based conspiracies over the past two months, it s important to remember that Washington has had a long dark history linked to illicit prostitution and sex trafficking   including at least two such expansive cases that reached all the way to the White House   DISGRACED    Former US Congressman Barney Frank. Frank did not seek re-lection in 2012 after he was found to have engineered a $12 million TARP bailout for OneUnited Bank. (Image Source: businessinsider.com)Washington s Silence: Congressman Frank s  Call Boys In 2011, Democratic Congressman Barney Frank, decided not to seek re-election. While much of the mainstream media waxed poetic about his 30-year career, there was virtually no mention of his involvement in one of the most notable DC scandals over the past three decades.In 1989, it was discovered that Frank s then boyfriend Stephen Gobie (who the US representative once solicited for an $80 dollar sexual encounter) had been running a prostitution ring out of Congressman Frank s Capitol Hill apartment   according to Gobie, Barney Frank was fully aware of the operation.Here s a passage from a Business Insider article from 2011 that describes one of DC s darkest scandals that is barely mentioned by media outlets to this day: Reuters didn t mention it. The New York Times didn t bring it up. The Guardian didn t note it either. The Washington Post got to it in the 17th paragraph.In 1989 it was discovered that Barney Frank s boyfriend, Stephen Gobie, whom Frank had once hired as a male prostitute, was running a male-brothel out of the Congressman s home. Frank claimed he did not know about the prostitution ring in his home, but he did use the power of his office to  fix  33 tickets for Gobie. And he knowingly wrote a misleading letter to Gobie s probation officer in Virginia. Frank received a  reprimand  for fixing the tickets. Gobie maintained that Frank knew about the prostitution ring operation in his home. Even writers who were absolutely untroubled by the openly homosexual lawmaker in 1989 thought that Frank should have resigned. Or they at least acknowledged that there was an abuse of his office. Additionally, the Washington Post reported that Gobie  maintained a relationship with Gabriel A. Massaro, the principal of Chevy Chase Elementary School, and used an office at the school in late 1987 to make telephone calls and have one client meet a prostitute. While Massaro was placed on administrative leave, the conspiracy deepened as the Washington Post followed up the breaking story providing the following details: With Congress in recess, it s too soon to tell if the Massachusetts Democrat will weather his admission that he paid Gobie for sex, hired him as a personal aide and wrote letters on congressional stationary to the convicted felon s probation officer. Shockingly, the scandal continued to persist as the investigation led to other political inquiries. Frank s scandal appeared to overlap and dovetail with another disturbing ring that reached all the way to the White House during the Reagan-Bush era.The Franklin Cover-upThe Barney Frank scandal indeed followed another appalling and chilling scandal dubbed the  Franklin Cover-up.  The shocking case involving Omaha, Nebraska s Franklin Credit Union employee named Lawrence King, who looted his employer to the tune of $38 million dollars. Here s a Washington Post article from 1990 on the matter: Lawrence E. King Jr., everyone now agrees, had a remarkable knack for stretching a dollar. On a salary of $16,200 a year, the credit union manager drove a $70,000 white Mercedes   and still could afford to spend $10,000 a month on limousines. His credit card charges topped $1 million, he owned a four-story house on 26 acres overlooking the Missouri River, and his floral bill alone came to $146,000 during a fragrant, 13-month period in 1987-88. While King s embezzlement was troublesome, it paled into comparison to a wider charge of trafficking and abuse levied at the credit union manager. The Post continued, outlining the awful truth about the abuse tied to King, in a group called the Franklin Five: In June 1988, a social worker at a mental hospital in Omaha reported allegations of possible child abuse to the Nebraska Foster Care Review Board, an agency that monitors the placement of several thousand children in the state.The board subsequently asked Omaha police and the state attorney general to investigate possible  child exploitation,  a  child prostitution ring  and  inappropriate activities by Larry King. More evidence in the same report revealed the following: 21 hours of videotaped testimony from three new witnesses, all in their early twenties, who said that, as minors, they had been victims of physical and sexual abuse. The book entitled The Franklin Cover-up, by former Nebraska state Senator and lawyer, John De Camp, chronicled a case that implicated politicians, judges, those in the military, police, as well as members of the intelligence community in the subsequent abduction of numerous children over the course of many years.Lawrence King was eventually convicted on charges of theft from the Franklin Credit Union and ordered to pay damages to Paul Bonacci for the apparent abuse he suffered during his abduction. Bonacci later told investigators he had participated in the abduction of Johnny Gosch, but according to (Polk County Attorney John Sarcone ) The Des Moines Resgister,  Bonacci has said he took part in Johnny Gosch s abduction, but Sarcone said investigators concluded any involvement by Bonacci was not credible. Here s a short summary of the disturbing case below: On February 5, 1999, in U.S. District Court in Lincoln, Nebraska, an extraordinary hearing occurred in Paul A. Bonacci v. Lawrence E. King, a civil action in which the plaintiff charged that he had been ritualistically abused by the defendant, as part of a nationwide pedophile ring linked to powerful political figures in Washington and to elements of the U.S. military and intelligence establishment. Three weeks later, on February 27, Judge Warren K. Urbom ordered King, who is currently in Federal prison, to pay $1 million in damages to Bonacci, in what Bonacci s attorney John DeCamp said was a clear signal that  the evidence presented was credible. The Frank and Franklin conspiracies outlined above sent shock waves through the establishment in Washington, and while it is possible we are seeing another trafficking cover-up happening again today, one should consider that thus far, there have been no victims found to have been abused regarding Comet Ping Pong or any other business wrapped up within the online pizzagate theory.A Franklin Cover-up documentary called  Conspiracy of Silence  was made and allegedly pulled from circulation following the fallout from a case that also implicated the Catholic founded non-profit orphanage, Boys Town.In a related scandal exposed in 2002, The Boston Globe s Spotlight Team  first revealed that the leader of the Catholic Church in Boston, Cardinal Bernard Law, allowed one of his priests to continue working even though Law knew that Fr. John Geoghan had spent his career sexually assaulting children. The story became so huge, that it led to more than 250 priests being publicly named in abuse allegations, covering some 100 cities in the US and another 100 globally. In 2015, Hollywood released the film Spotlight, which chronicled the tales of abuse.Similarly in the UK, over the past few years, an investigation into the Jimmy Savile abuse scandal  was compounded by BBC s own cover-up of the serious claims. The Savile scandal and cover-up featured many whistleblowers and victims coming forward, and also showed a high degree of cover-up at the police department level as well.While observing the connective aspects of various scandals, DC s political scene has also revealed some telling business and establishment links which raise even more interesting questions   MEDIA MACHINE    Democratic political operative David Brock. (Image Source: twitter)There are some interesting aspects of pizzagate which have been almost untouched by internet sleuths.Below we ll take a look at George Soros-funded Media Matters and its director David Brock and examine his past connections and tangential links to both Barney Frank and James Alefantis Media Matters  & Political PlotsIn 1997, political operative David Brock was once a right-wing media hit-man so to speak, writing conservative op-ed s taking on college campus  marxists  and was an investigative reporter for the weekly news magazine Insight on the News (published by The Washington Times). Some time later, Brock became a Democratic political operative and Soros righthand man at Media Matters.Some reports also claim that Brock (seen on the left with Barney Frank) joined on with Sidney Blumenthal and the Clintons simply over money   but others suggest a different tale   one that took place during the course of Brock completing a somewhat strange book entitled  The Seduction of Hillary Clinton,  which deflected controversies aimed at the Clintons and took a softball approach to Hillary s political evolution.Over the years, many critics have questioned Brock s hidden Washington past and his unlikely political evolution Blackmail? Brock, Grey & AlefantisIn 2012, FOX NEWS revealed the following, as Media Matters chief David Brock paid a former domestic partner $850,000 after being threatened with damaging information involving the organization s donors and the IRS   a deal that Brock later characterized as a blackmail payment, according to legal documents obtained by FoxNews.com. Brock s bitter separation from William Grey led to accusations of blackmail and harassment: In an acrimonious lawsuit settled at the end of last year, Brock accused William Grey of making repeated threats to expose him to the  scorn or ridicule of his employees, donors and the press in demanding money and property.  Brock claimed in legal papers that he sold a Rehoboth Beach, Del., home he once shared with Grey in order to meet Grey s demands, which he called  blackmail  in the lawsuit. Brock s legal trouble with Grey appeared to be the result of a severed relationship after 10 years, with Brock ending the relationship, he began dating Washington, D.C., restaurant impresario James Alefantis,  according to reports.Considering how Brock and Grey s end played out according to court records revealed by the media, one might consider that this latest DC drama unfolding in the form of pizzagate, could also be the result of bad-jacketing (as suggested by the blog auticulture) after a bitter love triangle involving the trio   in the lead up to one of the most contentious US presidential elections in history.According to Ward Churchill s,  Agents of Repression: The FBI s Secret Wars Against the Black Panther Party and the American Indian Movement: Snitch-jacketing or bad-jacketing refers to the practice creating suspicion   through the spread of rumors, manufacture of evidence etc Bad-jacketing had been a technique employed by the FBI under their program COINTELPRO.Domestically in America, the FBI created the counter-intelligence program known as COINTELPRO, to influence, disrupt and coerce political factions from the inside out, infiltrating countless political groups and movements. According to reports these included the following,  The Black Panther Party, The Communist Party of America, the Ku Klux Klan, the Socialist Workers Party, the New Left, the Students for a Democratic Society, the American Indian Movement, the Chicano Movement, the Puerto Rican Liberation Movement, Communist groups, anti-war organizations, Hollywood stars sympathetic to these groups, and civil rights leaders. Between 1956 and 1971 the FBI s controversial program influenced and radicalized hundreds of left-wing and right-wing groups to control and neutralize political dissidents across America. No part of politics was immune to COINTELPRO.Is it possible that a DC love triangle that once involved Brock, Grey & Alefantis, led to a PR-driven form (as a part of Brock s Correct the Record or something else) of bad-jacketing which then cascaded through the Democratic Party elite, ultimately taking its triangle shape   through the use of pizzagate and others? MEDIA CONTROL    (Photo illustration redesigned by 21WIRE s Shawn Helton)Censorship & the  Fake News  Witch-HuntIn early November, just prior to the US presidential election, CNN published an article stating the following: A recent BuzzFeed study of  hyperpartisan Facebook pages  found that these pages  are consistently feeding their millions of followers false or misleading information. Three weeks later in a republished article written by Robert Parry from Consortium News, it was disclosed that major media companies had been heavily involved in pushing the fake news meme, citing many election-based posts made online as the culprit: In its lead editorial on Sunday, The New York Times decried what it deemed  The Digital Virus Called Fake News  and called for Internet censorship to counter this alleged problem, taking particular aim at Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg for letting  liars and con artists hijack his platform. Below is a passage from a recent report filed at 21WIRE discussing the fake news witch-hunt, which has now led to new calls for internet censorship: Over the past month, The Washington Post published an irresponsible propaganda piece that blamed the 2016 US election results on  fake news  dispensed via sophisticated Russian propaganda. These accusations of course were completely unfounded, deliberately feeding into a paranoid trial by media format that is no doubt echoed by US government sock puppet accounts that act as a digital firing squad by redirecting public perception.While the US mainstream media contends that  fake news  somehow altered the 2016 presidential election cycle, it s important to remember that the US government has some pedigree here, having been behind the creation of bogus social media accounts and personalities for years now.Back in 2011, The UK s Guardian reported that the US government via CENTCOM, was looking to gain a foothold over information shared on the internet through fake online personal accounts: The discovery that the US military is developing false online personalities   known to users of social media as  sock puppets    could also encourage other governments, private companies and non-government organisations to do the same.The Centcom contract stipulates that each fake online persona must have a convincing background, history and supporting details, and that up to 50 US-based controllers should be able to operate false identities from their workstations  without fear of being discovered by sophisticated adversaries . This is just one example. Who really knows how widespread this practice is.You can expect a litany of allegations to continue from the mainstream, along with their faux war on fake news sites which has been used deliberately to discredit and frame genuine investigative analysis in alternative media, its intended target. Western media s anti-Russian hyperbole has morphed and broadened somewhat, thanks to Facebook, Google and Twitter and the alphabet establishment news agencies, Washington has a new go-to scapegoat joining the tired old Russian  hack  meme   independent media. SEE ALSO: Washington Post Sloppy  Journalism  Blames Russia for  Fake News  Crisis and Trump s Win, While Pushing Neo-McCarthyismIt appears as though there has been a coordinated effort to combine the latest run of conspiracies in America, whether it s the fake news meme, the  Russian election-hack  meme or pizzagate    they all seem to be have been used to undermine key aspects of internet freedom.Below is an interview with James Alefantis featured on Megyn Kelly s Kelly File discussing the highly speculative pizzagate theory. During Kelly s interview, the focus centered around unsubstantiated claims levied at the business owner and his place of business Here s a very detailed analysis provided by researcher David Icke discussing the multi-layered theories wrapped up in the pizzagate conspiracy and its relation to censorship and so-called  fake news In ConclusionThe overtly conspiracy-tinged pizzagate theory, emerged like a hydra out of sub-Reddit and 4chan threads and Twitter posts, while catapulting only the most sensational aspects into the mainstream matrix. The story conjures many Hollywood and government tales of cover-up, murder, abuse and deception throughout history.The perceived presence of a politically charged Satanic sex-cult intertwined within a paedophilic abuse ring, seemed to have only enhanced the narrative for many internet-sleuths, who in some cases, held steadfast to a biased guilt-by-association meme   even in the absence of any known victims, and without any forensic evidence or any eye-witness testimony of a crime.This is not to suggest that VIP child sex rings and ritual abuse cases do not exist in America. One such murder spree, known as the  Son of Sam  case, was reopened in part due to evidence of Satanic cult activity and multiple offenders. Although the findings were suspended, the case was never officially closed.While people should certainly have the ability to express their opinion about pizzagate without shame or ridicule, using biased, misleading or fraudulent information (in some cases dispensing defamatory or threatening remarks) in a rapid-fire echo chamber, could ultimately undermine any legitimate investigation if there truly was a crime committed here, or elsewhere. If that is the ultimate legacy of pizzagate, then it is a devastating self-inflicted wound for the alternative media.While it s true that sites like Reddit and Twitter could cite the 1996 Communications Decency Act, as a protection for hosting defamatory information posts by users, there could be real consequences for those deliberately posting defamatory content with no real evidence to substantiate such allegations.Another risk with a whirlwind like this, is that it would be very easy for an agent provocateur to post a slick YouTube video or craft an article   with the intention of whipping-up a storm that could be used to damage independent media as a whole. It s very possible that this has already happened at some point over the life of the internet, and it s certain that the powers that be will use this tactic again in the future.Above all however, it s important to separate the fallout from the pizzagate story and other fake news allegations, as those in mainstream media such as The New York Times, The Washington Post and the self-anointed  fact checker Snopes.com, seem to have propped up this pizzeria conspiracy as a battle cry to introduce the idea of new internet censorship protocols.It s anybody s guess what will be the final outcome of the #Pizzagate phenomenon, but for the moment, it seems to have collapsed under the weight of its own mountain of digital ash. Maybe that was the idea. READ MORE MSM LIES AT: 21st Century Wire MSM FilesSUPPORT 21WIRE  SUBSCRIBE NOW & BECOME A MEMBER @21WIRE.TVUS_News
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address book information contained within holy rail golden nugget traveling eastern sprawling network eastern reportedly also additional ties trump men implicated separate jane doe sexual assault lawsuit recently dropped us court system apparently third time since washington times discusses clients allegedly used eastern services including member british royal family the following passage report filed january and even eastern kept relationships leading recent emergence news involves allegations provided prince andrew sexual services american girl virginia roberts filed federal lawsuit florida eastern alleging forced serve sex slave paid perform sexual services prince new york post reported here sean stone rt watching hawks interviewing condita spinoff executive director the alliance rescue victims trafficking discuss eastern venous past another strange turn clinton email scandal came late election days voters went polls suddenly revealed media outlets due investigation setting scandal involving disgraced former representative anthony einer husband chief clinton aide human adenine fbi director james come would announce agency would reopening clinton email according recent interview breitbart news hillary clinton alleged taken trips eastern little saint james island according private security kingpin blackwater founder erik prince prior election right fbi reopened investigation clinton promptly shut second time controversial mercenary made extraordinary important readers note explosive revelation truly yet one word either mainstream media alternative media outside breitbart blogs potentially devastating allegation prince asserted nypd found way stuff within recently scrutinized emails the news reportedly sent shock waves upper echelon democratic party clinton campaign nypd said ready hand indictments additional criminal activity possibly involving money laundering underage sex among illicit commentary democratic party apparent corruption released around time batch modesta emails sent internet sleuths pizzagate rabbit hole prince claim seem granted onto pizzagate theory youtube commentators without actual concrete early embattled blackwater renamed academic xe founder prince subject inquiry alleged involved major money laundering scheme bank china libya in prince supposedly setup frontier services group help major chinese investment firm critic group when factor prince became subject major scandal offensive hard know whether claims true political ploy aimed reflecting controversy however claims offer dark view political party downward spiral several chaffwith mind true investigation take place facts still need separated might innuendo overt apparent conspiracies also brought fold ascendancy pizzagate social media users seemed make startling connections although without complete story the lack coherence pizzagate allegations opened door usual suspects come steer conversation away potentially damaging connections back clinton establishment gatekeeper publication the daily beast reported following passage written user pleadingtheyiff post attempts link clinton campaign laura silly idaho missionary served prison sentence haiti organization founded new life children refuge attempted transport haiti children dominican republic haiti user primary proof links clinton silly human begin constantly forwarding hillary articles woman organization the post provides email sent clinton begin regarding theory includes major error one first things hillary took scene haiti get laura hook pleadingtheyiff writes links website called silly freed instead remained incarcerated haiti faced trial found guilty the nine missionaries jailed alongside freed is possible laura silly case buried endless collateral damage pizzagate with even damning american conspiracies dnc fraud violent protests funded george sorts pentagon paying pr firm bell pottinger million produce fake terror videos addition polite express revelations concerning clinton particular wonder whether pizzagate theory unintended coincidence yet another socially engineered agenda masked media obvious however pizzagate story controversies appear obfuscated real criminality contained within modesta email leaks providing media smoke screen conspiracies mentioned directly article take another look pizzagate phenomena along comet ping pong gunman story addition one washington dc notorious scandals events surrounding online conspiracy could used shape new censorship protocols wake us media fake news sites leaked john modesta former chairman hillary clinton presidential campaign pictured clinton chief aid human begin clinton campaign jet spirit cooking pizzagate a within contents controversial modesta dispatch wikileaks early november appeared stressing email chain tony modesta top democratic lobbyist modesta group brother john modesta hillary clinton campaign chairman new york serbian performance artist named marina email exchange tony modesta marina abramovic image left drew sharp outcry users social media platforms like twitter reddit email conversation revealed dinner party involving performance ritual calling use real human blood bodily fluids referred spirit cooking while abramovic art could seen sick deeply disturbing many even degenerate depravity important emphasize nothing criminal email tony modesta dark creations captured video early two decades origins abramovic spirit cooking appeared researchers linked directly cloister crowned thema religion this prompted alternative media outlets link everpedia primary source explain truth behind spirit cooking the conspiracy ultimately led increased speculation even spurious major magnet pizzagate researchers abramovic book published grandmother performance art released book entitled spirit cooking essential aphrodisiac recipes rare book contained sequence etchings reverted theories spirit cooking exploded social media series modesta emails leaked containing thought coded language concealing elite underground child sex ring according online sites mega forums citing reddit addition appears series emails released wikileaks partially led one man james alefantis owner comet ping pong become central pizzagate antagonist the fact alefantis listed one dc top influential people fuelled speculation internet case slam dunk social media inquisitors shared pictures instagram account alefantis blocked public friends contacts linked attempt conclude vast conspiracy while many images appeared disturbing context two conspiracies mentioned images prove actual crime taken conspiracy deepened symbols washington dc comet ping pong derived menu logo well pizza restaurants addition apparent coded modesta emails sparked outcry social media symbols used appeared mimic according wikileaks release supposedly fbi the apparent leaked release fbi disclosed certain markers sex trafficking abuse cases while might similarities graphics observed comet ping pong nearby best pizza evidence still purely circumstantial certainly nothing conclusively linking pizzerias abuse ring internet trawlers also claimed unearthed photos digging secret underneath comet ping pong claim later turned one planted detail pizzagate story evocative image secret basement reserved child torture abuse sent story orbit this one example one two simple details injected storyline inflamed narrative motivate forum users beyond real forensic investigation could creating virtual fact revealed comet uses refrigerator buck fishing camping alefantis restaurant two doors block store produce cheese roofing dough see left photo cilia kang it worth noting also behind one speculative claims surrounding story allegedly involved patent holders tech company freestyle semiconductor turned false conversely provided valuable information like wake boston bombing users posted number photos indicating presence operatives involved event point totally us authorities website said struggling survive financially part increased users driven viral material like often misleading information spread social media users pizzagate narrative took shape media tripwireas us media brushed perceived content modesta emails mentioned ground swell speculation hyperbole unsubstantiated claims filled vacuum online enthusiasm continued also important recognize one main propellers initial pizzagate story popular disinformation website called your news wire regularly feed public completely fake news stories online get propagated social media this website successfully managed fool many online readers regularly mix real news articles many invented stories a viral fake story like would netted your news wire tens thousands dollars ad click reports on white supremacy twitter account presents belonging jewish lawyer new york tweeted nypd looking evidence emails anthony einer laptop contained evidence clinton involvement international child enslavement ring the next day sean used work british conspiracy theorist david ice took note message board post tweet he wrote post site his story took another step claiming fbi insider confirmed claims where new fbi source come cited thread message board back july that thread started anonymous user invited questions describing themself person intimate knowledge inner workings clinton case respond questions sent buzzfeed news by point story became viral ball fire stopping wonder spirit emails might used tripwire establishment initiate increased internet censorship story gathered big boost highly speculative ideas pasted together various social media personalities youtube codified large popular outlets like levied unconfirmed allegations comet ping pong restaurant private businesses affluent area washington conspiracies recent years generated much public outrage scrutiny intense speculation however question timing conspiracy relates cyber censorship table following fake news bbc stated following modesta email thread leaked november mentioned alefantis connection in early november wikileaks steadily released piles emails clinton campaign chairman john modesta one contact caught attention prankster sites people paranoid alefantis owner comet ping pong pizza restaurant washington he also big democratic party supporter raised money barack obama hillary clinton he relationship david brock influential liberal never met clinton appeared modesta emails connection fundraisers other claims attached pizzagate theory included link tweet deceased investigative reporter andrew breitbart the pizzagate theory seemed gather steam screenshot alleged breitbart tweet story upon reviewing origins breitbart tweet intertwined pizzagate theory appears contention breitbart might referencing here political blog hot air matter it classic andrew tweet his abbreviations invention words tells probably andrew work i never really knew allow anyone tweet behalf i suppose possible point without knowledge so discussion let stimulate andrew sent what talking anyone knew andrew well worked closely sphere knew would talk tweet regard underage sex slave john modesta knows exactly referring acorn if remember james o keep hanna files acorn story broke andrew big government website quick description via wikipedia lot bogus takes story brief description correct in july august files o keep visited acorn offices baltimore washington brooklyn san bernardino san diego philadelphia los angeles miami files dressed prostitute o keep wore white khaki blue dress shirt tie claimed boyfriend files o keep recorded encounters using hidden cameras pretended seeking advice run illegal business included use underage girls sex trade the article goes state acorn saga instrumental breitbart rise media aspect involved underage abuse story due undercover work james o keep hannah files strange days comet ping pong resides quiet affluent dc neighborhood image source chicago the comet ping pong gunman early december actor edgar madison welsh arrested authorities reportedly discharging rifle inside alefantis comet ping pong restaurant welsh apparently comet ping pong pizzeria epicenter shocking conspiracy asserting establishment somehow allegedly involved expansive child trafficking abuse background may raised eyebrows chronicled profiles various gunman recent years production past documented imdb also recently involved major traffic accident october badly injuring young teenager potentially impacting state mind well exposed potential criminal outlined possibility informants used shooting events past usually individuals lengthy criminal past multiple links government military sometimes entertainment industry welsh entirely fit typical mold convict turned informant agent another answer the online site released following information regarding welsh father work preventing child abduction harry welsh former police officer firearms instructor expert witness firearms according imdb profile he also writes family hosted foster children worked prevent child elected president north carolina crime shoppers association two terms served executive director national organization prevent abuse abduction children appointed governor jim martin governor commission child victimization was welsh psychological dress following recent car accident feeding aspects life father work prevent child abuse motivated action online conspiracy although difficult accurately gauge welsh true motivation youtube personalities absolutely contend involvement scripted smear new burgeoning pizzagate research community online additionally researchers cite welsh relief visit haiti absolute proof hoax alleged clinton foundation ties human trafficking haiti claims date yet completely part pizzagate conspiracy gained steam monica peterson activist rights summer working claude estref executive director human trafficking center university denver apparently died suicide mid november haiti however time circumstances death entirely clear led intense speculation grounded fact if evidence foul play certainly could investigated part possible especially hotly contested us election involving clinton issue resolved talk proof wider conspiracy still peterson tragedy granted onto pizzagate story the washington post reported following according executive director estref peterson gone haiti number times research human trafficking investigating clinton foundation he said brilliant research fellow working past two years produce still unpublished article critiqued controversial book business sex trafficking siddharth kara unfortunately peterson story got packaged allegations clinton trafficking conspiracy interwoven within pizzagate theory day welsh walked comet ping pong site posted youtube video titled haiti pizzagate death child trafficking investigator without actually confirming full details surrounding peterson death everpedia one first websites explain details spirit cooking appeared also fan flames alleged conspiracy surrounding peterson abc news release disclosed full details regarding welsh apparent criminal activity comet ping pong at around arrived restaurant witnesses say saw welsh holding assault rifle across chest according complaint as moved toward back restaurant employees customers fled everyone fleeing welsh encountered employee returning back freezer according court documents the employee said welsh pointed rifle direction documents state welsh denied raising firearm customers employees left restaurant police created perimeter around welsh exited building hands air complying officers the story continued following description at one point said encountered locked door attempted open butter knife complaint says when work fired shots lock documents say here screen shot welsh incident report mm fake news mainstream media pizzagate gift kept welsh encounter inside comet ping pong conspiracy known pizzagate fallen manipulative hands corporate mainstream media captivating speculative alternative media outlets gave legs already convoluted fake news waged mainstream media specifically aimed independent outlets blogs regularly produce insightful critical since spirit cooking pizzagate theories merging solid evidence linking restaurant anything criminal yet theories continue persist online implications private citizens point victimless crime this made alternative media easy target mainstream media politicians calling control social media content help stop what mainstream pundits describing pizzagate campaign online abuse internet bullying comet ping pong owner legal stand point pizzagate conspiracy could also potentially lead court case root cause certain defamatory allegations apparent death threats alefantis shop owners private citizens public figures this something consider presenting possible theory directly implications individual major felony unless exists real forensic smoking gun whistleblower willing come forward case speculation could construed libel defamation without supporting internet conspiracies past two months important remember washington long dark history linked illicit prostitution sex trafficking including least two expansive cases reached way white house disgraced former us congressman barney frank frank seek found engineered million trap bailout reunited bank image source washington silence congressman frank call boys in democratic congressman barney frank decided seek while much mainstream media axed poetic career virtually mention involvement one notable dc scandals past three discovered frank boyfriend stephen movie us representative solicited dollar sexual encounter running prostitution ring congressman frank capitol hill apartment according movie barney frank fully aware passage business insider article describes one dc darkest scandals barely mentioned media outlets day reuters mention the new york times bring the guardian note either the washington post got discovered barney frank boyfriend stephen movie frank hired male prostitute running congressman home frank claimed know prostitution ring home use power office fix tickets movie and knowingly wrote misleading letter movie probation officer virginia frank received reprimand fixing tickets movie maintained frank knew prostitution ring operation home even writers absolutely troubled openly homosexual lawmaker thought frank resigned or least acknowledged abuse office additionally washington post reported movie maintained relationship gabriel massacre principal they chase elementary school used office school late make telephone calls one client meet prostitute while massacre placed administrative leave conspiracy deepened washington post followed breaking story providing following details with congress recess soon tell massachusetts democrat weather admission paid movie sex hired personal aide wrote letters congressional stationary convicted felon probation officer shocking scandal continued persist investigation led political inquiries frank scandal appeared overlap detail another disturbing ring reached way white house franklin barney frank scandal indeed followed another appalling chilling scandal dubbed franklin the shocking case involving omaha nebraska franklin credit union employee named lawrence king looted employer tune million dollars here washington post article matter lawrence king everyone agrees remarkable knack stretching dollar on salary year credit union manager drove white mercedes still could afford spend month limousine his credit card charges topped million owned house acres overlooking missouri river floral bill alone came fragrant period while king embezzlement troublesome pale comparison wider charge trafficking abuse levied credit union manager the post continued outlining awful truth abuse tied king group called franklin five in june social worker mental hospital omaha reported allegations possible child abuse nebraska foster care review board agency monitors placement several thousand children board subsequently asked omaha police state attorney general investigate possible child exploitation child prostitution ring inappropriate activities larry king more evidence report revealed following hours videotape testimony three new witnesses early twenties said minors victims physical sexual abuse the book entitled the franklin former nebraska state senator lawyer john de camp chronicled case implicated politicians judges military police well members intelligence community subsequent abduction numerous children course many king eventually convicted charges theft franklin credit union ordered pay damages paul bonacci apparent abuse suffered abduction bonacci later told investigators participated abduction johnny coach according poll county attorney john sarcoma the des mines register bonacci said took part johnny coach abduction sarcoma said investigators concluded involvement bonacci credible here short summary disturbing case on february district court lincoln nebraska extraordinary hearing occurred paul bonacci lawrence king civil action plaintiff charged ritualistically abused defendant part nationwide pedophile ring linked powerful political figures washington elements military intelligence establishment three weeks later february judge warren from ordered king currently federal prison pay million damages bonacci bonacci attorney john became said clear signal evidence presented credible the frank franklin conspiracies outlined sent shock waves establishment washington possible seeing another trafficking happening today one consider thus far victims found abused regarding comet ping pong business wrapped within online pizzagate franklin documentary called conspiracy silence made allegedly pulled circulation following fallout case also implicated catholic founded orphanage boys related scandal exposed the boston globe spotlight team first revealed leader catholic church boston cardinal bernard law allowed one priests continue working even though law knew fr john meghan spent career sexually assaulting children the story became huge led priests publicly named abuse allegations covering cities us another globally in hollywood released film spotlight chronicled tales uk past years investigation jimmy save abuse scandal compounded bbc serious claims the save scandal featured many whistleblowers victims coming forward also showed high degree police department level observing connective aspects various scandals dc political scene also revealed telling business establishment links raise even interesting questions media machine democratic political operative david brock image source twitter there interesting aspects pizzagate almost untouched internet take look george media matters director david brock examine past connections tangential links barney frank james alefantis media matters political protein political operative david brock media speak writing conservative taking college campus marxists investigative reporter weekly news magazine insight news published the washington times some time later brock became democratic political operative sorts righthand man media reports also claim brock seen left barney frank joined sydney blumenthal clinton simply money others suggest different tale one took place course brock completing somewhat strange book entitled the seduction hillary clinton deflected controversies aimed clinton took softball approach hillary political years many critics questioned brock hidden washington past unlikely political evolution blackmail brock grey alefantisin fox news revealed following media matters chief david brock paid former domestic partner threatened damaging information involving organization donors irs deal brock later characterized blackmail payment according legal documents obtained brock bitter separation william grey led accusations blackmail harassment in acrimonious lawsuit settled end last year brock accused william grey making repeated threats expose scorn ridicule employees donors press demanding money property brock claimed legal papers sold rehoboth beach home shared grey order meet grey demands called blackmail lawsuit brock legal trouble grey appeared result severed relationship years brock ending relationship began dating washington restaurant impresario james alefantis according brock grey end played according court records revealed media one might consider latest dc drama unfolding form pizzagate could also result suggested blog agriculture bitter love triangle involving trio lead one contentious us presidential elections ward churchill agents repression the fbi secret wars against black panther party american indian movement refers practice creating suspicion spread rumors manufacture evidence etc technique employed fbi program america fbi created program known cointelpro influence disrupt coerced political factions inside infiltrating countless political groups movements according reports included following the black panther party the communist party america ku flux plan socialist workers party new left students democratic society american indian movement chicago movement puerto rica liberation movement communist groups organizations hollywood stars sympathetic groups civil rights leaders between fbi controversial program influenced radicalized hundreds groups control neutralize political dissidents across america no part politics immune possible dc love triangle involved brock grey alefantis led form part brock correct record something else cascade democratic party elite ultimately taking triangle shape use pizzagate others media control photo illustration redesigned shawn hilton censorship fake news early november prior us presidential election cnn published article stating following a recent buzzfeed study hyperpartisan facebook pages found pages consistently feeding millions followers false misleading information three weeks later republished article written robert party consortium news disclosed major media companies heavily involved pushing fake news meme citing many posts made online culprit in lead editorial sunday the new york times decreed deemed the digital virus called fake news called internet censorship counter alleged problem taking particular aim facebook founder mark zuckerberg letting liars con artists hijack platform below passage recent report filed discussing fake news led new calls internet censorship over past month the washington post published irresponsible propaganda piece blamed us election results fake news dispensed via sophisticated russian propaganda these accusations course completely unfounded deliberately feeding paranoid trial media format doubt echoed us government sock puppet accounts act digital firing squad redirecting public us mainstream media contends fake news somehow altered presidential election cycle important remember us government pedigree behind creation bogus social media accounts personalities years the uk guardian reported us government via centro looking gain foothold information shared internet fake online personal accounts the discovery us military developing false online personalities known users social media sock puppets could also encourage governments private companies organisations centro contract stipulates fake online persona must convincing background history supporting details controllers able operate false identities workstations without fear discovered sophisticated adversaries this one example who really knows widespread practice expect italy allegations continue mainstream along faux war fake news sites used deliberately discredit frame genuine investigative analysis alternative media intended target western media hyperbole morphed broadened somewhat thanks facebook google twitter alphabet establishment news agencies washington new scapegoat joining tired old russian hack meme independent media see also washington post sloppy journalism blames russia fake news crisis trump win while pushing appears though coordinated effort combine latest run conspiracies america whether fake news meme russian meme pizzagate seem used undermine key aspects internet interview james alefantis featured megan kelly kelly file discussing highly speculative pizzagate theory during kelly interview focus centered around unsubstantiated claims levied business owner place business here detailed analysis provided researcher david ice discussing theories wrapped pizzagate conspiracy relation censorship fake news in conclusionthe overtly pizzagate theory emerged like hydra threads twitter posts catapulting sensational aspects mainstream matrix the story injures many hollywood government tales murder abuse deception throughout perceived presence politically charged satanic intertwined within pedophilia abuse ring seemed enhanced narrative many cases held steadfast biased meme even absence known victims without forensic evidence testimony suggest vip child sex rings ritual abuse cases exist america one murder spree known son sam case reopened part due evidence satanic cult activity multiple offenders although findings suspended case never officially people certainly ability express opinion pizzagate without shame ridicule using biased misleading fraudulent information cases dispensing defamatory threatening remarks echo chamber could ultimately undermine legitimate investigation truly crime committed elsewhere if ultimate legacy pizzagate devastating wound alternative true sites like reddit twitter could cite communications decency act protection hosting defamatory information posts users could real consequences deliberately posting defamatory content real evidence substantiate risk whirlwind like would easy agent provocateur post slick youtube video craft article intention storm could used damage independent media whole it possible already happened point life internet certain powers use tactic however important separate fallout pizzagate story fake news allegations mainstream media the new york times the washington post fact checker seem dropped pizzeria conspiracy battle cry introduce idea new internet censorship anybody guess final outcome pizzagate phenomenon moment seems collapsed weight mountain digital ash maybe idea read more mm lies at century wire mm filessupport subscribe now become a member