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Saturday, November 1, 2025

M.A.G.A. aka "Make (te) ABSOLVO Great Again"

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Hegelian Dialectic to prop up a Christo-Fascist 'democratic' dictatorship ? ?


Billionaires support groups behind 'No Kings,' but they didn't spend $300M to fund protests
Billionaires fund organizations on both the left and right. That doesn't mean they spent $300 million on "No Kings."
Rae Deng

Published Oct. 24, 2025

"...Origin of rumor

"....The rumor appeared to originate from Seamus Bruner, director of research at the Government Accountability Institute, a conservative think tank founded by Peter Schweizer and Steve Bannon. Both have ties to Breitbart News, a far-right media outlet known for spreading falsehoods.  

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/billionaires-no-kings-protests/ 



An Hegelian Dialectic textbook case. Do you need some dummy "10 kings club" members on whom to focus the attention away from the real 10 kings ? Some scarecrows to excite the typical Baptist Christian MAGA-kid to continue to support a pedophile POTUS ?  .... Just manipulate the information and don't forget, if you do evil things like lying, cheating, maliciousness, remember your justification for Netanyahu's genocide, that "don't-criticize-because-God could-be-behind-evil-things", and you are immediately absolved. By God? Not so sure.


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"Ego te absolvo a peccatis tuis in nomine Patris et Filii et Spiritus Sancti. Amen"

https://forumgoriziablog.it/2019/09/ego-te-absolvo-a-peccatis-tuis-in-nomine-patris-et-filii-et-spiritus-sancti-amen.html


Ahem, Steve Bannon, you know the guy already. 



Catholic. And Peter Schweizer ? ?





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Peter Franz Schweizer (born November 24, 1964) is an American political consultant and writer. He is the president of the Government Accountability Institute (GAI), senior editor-at-large of far-right media organization Breitbart News,[1] and a former fellow at the conservative Hoover Institution.[2] [Wikipedia]

"...Even for non-Catholics, the pope is a figure of world significance who can affect politics in every nation around the globe, as Francis, the first pope from Latin America, clearly did. On the latest episode of The Drill Down, hosts Peter Schweizer and Eric Eggers of the Government Accountability Institute avoid theology but instead follow the money the church received from the Biden administration, and it leads to the church’s role in the immigration crisis in the US". [Peter Franz Schweizer]

https://thedrilldown.com/podcast-episodes/schweizer-even-for-non-catholics-the-next-pope-matters/


"....but instead follow the money the church received from the Biden administration, and it leads to the church’s role in the immigration crisis in the US".



This is a typical scenario of the Middle Age Catholic church and the papacy, with popes, anti-popes, vice-popes, kings and emperors fighting among themselves for the bucks and power. Welcome in the New Middle Age, Americans will enjoy it for sure.

OK, let's focus on the Hegelian Dialectic at the highest level  :


Matthew 6:3

But when thou doest alms, let not thy Republican hand know what thy Democratic  hand doeth:


"....only that the Church might be the gainer in the end, in the conditions fixed in the treaties for peace and that the end justifies the means".

THE JESUIT OATH

By Carlos Didler

Subterranean Rome, pp. 349-351

https://www.libcfl.com/articles/jesuit.htm


Is it more clear now ? Rome is the Whore and the Catholic church, which you can identify with the Whore or consider the firstborn of the Whore, paraphrasing Karl Marx, is...


.....the real movement which abolishes the present state of things. The conditions of this movement result from the premises now in existence.”

― Karl Marx, German Ideology


Even if some arguments I used there are no more 100% valid if considered with the lenses of the progress I achieved in the insight of the events of the world, this post is still very good to understand how the Whore and her daughters (firstborn one, natural daughters and adopted ones) is surfing, using the Hegelian Dialectic, the events of the world, to approache the moment when God will unleash His wrath on earth and then the Son will come back :


Sunday, May 25, 2025

The Great Dialectical Scheme of the Devil centered on Rome


Now,  what I told you long ago ? That the papacy will attempt to get acceptance among the Baptist MAGA-kids with subtility, a subtility which will be propagated even from the most staunch anti-Catholic pulpits of the "Evangelical America". You cannot force enthusiasm for the papacy among Baptists in the US. You have to find another Hegelian Dialectical way, creating the false assumptions of a real threat coming from the election of a "wrong pope" (thesis), then the antithesis comes very easy, like fire from oil and flames, suddenly the Baptist MAGA-kid receives his/her political instructions from his religious commissar ("pastor") to support the party line of the White Temple (Washington DC), to support that particular cardinale instead of another one. Slowly the poor Baptist MAGA-kid become acquaintained with the necessity of the "real politik" and the process of subliminal acceptance of the supreme, uncontested, infallible divinely inspired power of the papacy is now an automatic sub-conscious mechanism of a rotten Baptist mind.

The most important goal is to convince him that the papacy is a way to make "America Great Again". That Catholicism is not the absolute evil, is no more "the Whore", but a lesser evil we can make a covenant with to fight the Devil and the Antichrist.


https://youtu.be/J7WfNLZxQiE?si=owuHRheJum7M-ZIY


NOW WHAT DOES THE BIBLE SAY ?


Hence "case closed" ? Only a case of "Jesuitical conspiratorial scheme" ? But conspiracy theories love to reverse things. Conspiracy theories are born to use truths in order to hide sin. Claiming that they are "revealing the sins of the secret, elite groups", they absolve the rest of mankind, a "victim", of their sins. MAGA is "maga", the wife of "magus", both are "witch" & "sorcerer". Notice the word "demiurge", whose definition is  (just using plain Google definition) :


a being responsible for the creation of the universe.

(in Platonic philosophy) the Maker or Creator of the world.

(in Gnosticism and other theological systems) a heavenly being, subordinate to the Supreme Being, that is considered to be the controller of the material world and antagonistic to all that is purely spiritual.


d-e-M-i-U-r-G-E


No, that is simple grammar, roots of words, the consonants are the same, and vowels at least maintain the same place and order of sequence like in "maga", hence the meaning and origin of those words are correlated or the same. If you want to refresh the memory :




Wednesday, May 14, 2025

MAGA = Maga of the church of Satan La Vey (and notice the colors, Vatican connections)


We have the creation here of a "new world", the MAGA world aka the foetus of the popular basis for a Catholic theocracy in the US. But this theocracy is not created ex novo, it exists already since long time, it was present in the church always, it's the sinful flesh which works until the carnal body dies. Perseverance of the saints ?  How more idiot one can be ? The only thing persevering is sin in the flesh and everyone telling you that you will no more sin after being born again (your soul is born again) is a rotten psychotic liar :


Romans 7:18

“For I know that in me (that is, in my flesh,) dwelleth no good thing: for to will is present with me; but how to perform that which is good I find not.”


 Study the whole chapter 7, that was only a bit of it. This is why God through the Holy Ghost separates the soul (spiritual circumcision) from the body when you are born again. To not let the irresistible force of sin of the dead body to involve in its sinful actions also the soul. 

Now, the genius of the Bible Study, dispensationalists, Ruckmanoids, double degree at Pensacola & Berkley etc., they even didn't get in their saturated with pharisaical MAGA slogans mind  the idea that society, the nations, the common world, is an allegory of the body of the sins of the flesh of Colossians 2:11 hence for this reason God established that in the church age His kingdom (kingdom of God) has to be CIRCUMCISED, CUT OFF, from the "body of the sins of the flesh" aka the world :


John 18:36

“Jesus answered, My kingdom is not of this world: if my kingdom were of this world, then would my servants fight, that I should not be delivered to the Jews: but now is my kingdom not from hence.”

Luke 17

20And when he was demanded of the Pharisees, when the kingdom of God should come, he answered them and said, The kingdom of God cometh not with observation:

21Neither shall they say, Lo here! or, lo there! for, behold, the kingdom of God is within you.


The fleshy Christians are like those Lordship salvation Calvinoids always striving to do good works to show they are saved & predestinated. Now no matter predestinationist or free-willist, a Christo-Fascist is recognizable for his irresistible lust to impose "law & order" pharisaically both his carnal body & his national body, of which the church becomes the "blood of it". No worry that the Pharisees were both carnal, exhibitionist of self-righteousness, and nationalists. Just look to those Psycho-messianic nuts of Zombisrael today, the "Ultra-Orthodox" & Zionists :


Luke 18:11
“The Pharisee stood and prayed thus with himself, God, I thank thee, that I am not as other men are, extortioners, unjust, adulterers, or even as this publican.” 

Luke  10

31And by chance there came down a certain priest that way: and when he saw him, he passed by on the other side.

32And likewise a Levite, when he was at the place, came and looked on him, and passed by on the other side.

33But a certain Samaritan, as he journeyed, came where he was: and when he saw him, he had compassion on him,


Make Israel Great Again

Now observe on how the Ruckmanoid Christo-Fascists handle Luke 10, they say that it is a "spiritual allegory" of the church, the Samaritan, therefore the concrete, real event, even if fictional, is of no value. In other words they CIRCUMCISE the doctrinal interpretation from the real contextual body of events, letting the real event to live indipendently from the doctrine emanating from it. Now, the theatrical event, the samaritan, the pharisees, the wounded guy etc., are remained there needing of another interpretation in order to give a reason of existence. Interpretation which promptly arrives, in the form of a Jesus' endorsement of nationalistic pride and despise for foregners, aliens and minorities. To the reader the judgement of the sanity of mind of such "blessed" preachers of MAGA

MAGA, alt-right, Christian nationalism, is simply Lordship Salvation, i.e. self-righteousness. It is applied not only to the personal body of the sins of the flesh in order to be persuaded that "I have been predestinated/saved", but also to the collective NATIONAL body, who has (see  Luke 10 'good samaritan' Ruckmanoid misshandling) to CUT OFF the members of it who are "offending the Lord", in a material, literal application of Mark 9:43, 45, 47 :


43And if thy hand offend thee, cut it off:...... 45And if thy foot offend thee, cut it off:.........47And if thine eye offend thee, pluck it out:

 

Of course at the same time denying that we are in the Tribulation. Aren't cute such hypocritical beasts ? And they are even pet-lovers ! ! ! (I think to the German shepherd dog of Dr. Ruckman and preacher Jae Joo's dog).

TO RECAP.

The connection between the kingdom of God -totally separated from this world- with the born again soul totally separated from the body of the sins of the flesh, has been completely darknened. The spiritual equivalence between the regenerated soul and the church is continually confused and misshandled. 

The reason is the total separation, that circumcision, of the  believer's soul from his fleshy body is mirrored in the separation of the kingdom of God from this world. It is just that Luke 17:20-21 that gives the definition of "church" as a "called OUT assembly", out of the world of course. The Devil, to eliminate from the awareness of the pious members of the chuch, that they as church have to be separated from the world, has introduced an enormous amount of secondary separations, separations from illegal aliens, from LGBTQs, from this and that. The Devil reversed the concept of separation, and manipulating the need to become "separated from this world" (Ephesians 5, 1 John 2, John 15, etc.) he reintroduced from the backdoor the need to be connected with the world (theocracies, alt-right, Christo-Fascism, etc.) presenting the world as the only useful knife able to keep the "saints" circumcised from the things of this world.

The core of Post- and A-Millennialism and is already explained in my series :


https://spirithismouth.blogspot.com/search/label/Post-millenialism


A vicious circle, woe to you if you fall in it. 


CONCLUSION


You can understand better the presence of the priests of Maga, praising the Queen of Maga in front of them, at Mar-a-Lago :






Sunday, March 23, 2025

Will JD Vance be the next emperor of the Western Roman Catholic Empire ("USA") ? ?

https://control-avles-blogs.blogspot.com/2025/03/will-jd-vance-be-next-emperor-of.html


Thursday, March 27, 2025

100 hundred Catholic priests inside President Trump's Mar-a-Lago mansion asking holy mary to bless President Trump and his conversion to Catholicism

https://control-avles-blogs.blogspot.com/2025/03/100-hundred-catholic-priests-inside.html


"...Origin of rumor

"....The rumor appeared to originate from Seamus Bruner, director of research at the Government Accountability Institute, a conservative think tank founded by Peter Schweizer and Steve Bannon. Both have ties to Breitbart News, a far-right media outlet known for spreading falsehoods. 

Wednesday, October 22, 2025

.....And then shall that No-king protesters be revealed, whom the KING shall consume with the spirit of HIS A** (😄)

https://control-avles-blogs.blogspot.com/2025/10/and-then-shall-that-no-king-protesters.html

 

Tuesday, April 22, 2025

The Devil's Hegelian Dialectic operated wonderfully! (the Long March of the Devil and his Society has paid back!)

https://control-avles-blogs.blogspot.com/2025/04/hegelian-dialectic-operated-wonderfully.html


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REFERENCES

Billionaires support groups behind 'No Kings,' but they didn't spend $300M to fund protests

Billionaires fund organizations on both the left and right. That doesn't mean they spent $300 million on "No Kings."

Rae Deng

Published Oct. 24, 2025


https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/billionaires-no-kings-protests/


Claim:

The "No Kings" protests in October 2025 against U.S. President Donald Trump's administration were financially backed by billionaires, who provided nearly $300 million for the movement.


What's True

Billionaires of all political stripes fund groups that push their preferred sentiments, and some of the organizations working on the "No Kings" movement have received grant money or other funds from charities with ties to billionaires such as George Soros.


What's False

Billionaires did not spend $300 million on funding the "No Kings" protests.


Following "No Kings" protests across the United States and in cities worldwide against U.S. President Donald Trump and his administration in October 2025, social media users spread a rumor that billionaires funded the rallies.


Posts on X and Facebook claimed that billionaires such as George Soros, Warren Buffet and Bill Gates provided nearly $300 million in total for the No Kings movement. These posts often included a chart purporting to show how the money flowed from billionaires to the protests via various organizations. The rumor also spread via conservative news outlets, including Fox News. 


Lawmakers such as Republican Sens. Ted Cruz of Texas and Marsha Blackburn of Tennessee claimed Soros, specifically, financially backed the "No Kings" protests. Many posts — including one from Rep. Anna Paulina Luna, a Republican from Florida — alleged that the supposed billionaire backers meant organizers misrepresented No Kings as an organic grassroots movement. 


As of this writing, No Kings had partnered with more than 200 organizations to coordinate its protests. Some of these organizations have received grant funding or other forms of financial backing from charitable groups founded by billionaires such as Soros. 


However, the list circulating online misrepresents the protests' funding structure. In truth, the $300 million amount appears to represent publicly available information about how much money the aforementioned charitable groups have given to organizations supporting No Kings.


These organizations — including the ACLU, Planned Parenthood and the National LGBTQ+ Task Force — have many more initiatives aside from No Kings. Furthermore, the list counted grant funding given to these organizations years before Trump's second term. 


As such, we rate this claim mostly false. 


Here's what a national spokesperson for No Kings, Eunic Epstein-Ortiz, said via email about whether No Kings receives any funding from partner organizations: 


No Kings is not an organization, nor is it a formal entity that can accept donations. It is a coalition of over 270+ partners, and a decentralized movement driven by volunteers and activists across the country. Organizations support the No Kings coalition by providing training, toolkits, and limited resources, but the vast majority of events are organized, promoted, and funded locally by grassroots volunteers.


Snopes reached out to several other major organizations on the list circulating online and will update this story if we hear back. We also reached out to the Government Accountability Institute for more information and will update this story if we hear back. 


Origin of rumor

The rumor appeared to originate from Seamus Bruner, director of research at the Government Accountability Institute, a conservative think tank founded by Peter Schweizer and Steve Bannon. Both have ties to Breitbart News, a far-right media outlet known for spreading falsehoods. 


In an Oct. 16 X thread, Bruner claimed No Kings is "FUELED BY BILLIONAIRES." One example he gave included $72 million that Open Society Foundations — Soros' charity — "directly contributed to official No Kings 2.0 organizers and protesters." ("No Kings 2.0" presumably references the fact that the first No Kings protests happened in June 2025, followed by the second in October.) 


Bruner also released a "FULL CASH ANALYSIS" via an X post, which appeared to be where the list circulating came from. 


While many of the rumors online alleged that the $300 million was directly tied to No Kings — the far-right WLT Report, for example, claimed No Kings essentially paid $40 to $60 for each protester, based on the $300 million amount — Bruner clarified in a reply to an X user that the "dough" funds more than "civil unrest." 


Bruner claimed that the $300 million he traced goes to causes other than No Kings organizing, including "mass illegal migration, K-12 indoctrination, ballot harvesting & [Get Out the Vote], climate alarmism etc. etc." 


"The money is fungible and the entire ecosystem is designed to weaken America," Bruner wrote. 


In other words, Bruner's "cash analysis" X post and subsequent claims based off of his work conflated funding that liberal billionaires have sent to progressive organizations and other causes with those organizations' participation in No Kings.


No Kings' funding structure

Both the June and October 2025 No Kings protests were conceived of and organized by Indivisible, a progressive group founded in response to Trump's election in 2016, alongside "a coalition of pro-democracy partner organizations," as mentioned above. 


There is very little definitive information on the amount of money the No Kings protests used to organize, in part because No Kings is a coalition, not an organization with financial records. However, in the age of social media — where online flyers and information spread like wildfire — there's also no evidence that No Kings took significant funding to put on protests. 


"The strength of No Kings comes from its decentralized nature, where local activists take the lead, and collective action is fueled locally by shared values," said Epstein-Ortiz, the No Kings spokesperson. 


A Google search found no reputable reports stating that No Kings paid people to protest Trump. No Kings' website explicitly calls for volunteers.


It is true that Indivisible and other organizations partnered with the No Kings movement have received funding from billionaire-backed charities such as Open Society Foundations. 


A search for "Indivisible" on Open Society Foundations' grants page indicated that Indivisible Project, a component of Indivisible, has received $5,010,000 from the Soros-founded charity from 2021 to 2023. This number was an exact match to the amount on the list circulating online that claims to show how much billionaires gave to No Kings.  


However, the descriptions of the grants did not specifically state that Indivisible had to use the money on No Kings or protest movements like it. A $3 million grant in 2022, for example, was for "the grantee's social welfare activities." Furthermore, this money was given to Indivisible before Trump was elected to a second term as president. 


We also cross-referenced the total amount in grants, dated 2021 to 2023, that Open Society Foundations gave to several organizations on the list — and found exact matches for each one, including Jewish Voice for Peace, Corporate Accountability Lab and Equal Justice Society.


A spokesperson for Open Society Foundations, Sean Savett, said via an email that the charity network supports "a wide range of independent organizations that work to deepen civic engagement through peaceful democratic participation."


"However, we did not provide any funding to organizations specifically for the No Kings rallies," Savett said. "I'd add that our grantees make their own decisions about their work, consistent with the law and the terms of their grant agreements


Thus, while Snopes has not independently verified every single number on the list circulating online, evidence demonstrates the dollar amounts are at least somewhat based on the amounts that organizations involved with No Kings have received from charities with ties to billionaires. 


However, that has no bearing on direct funding for No Kings, given that the data used is outdated and not directly related to the organization of No Kings. Given that information, it is false that billionaires spent $300 million on No Kings. 


Snopes previously reported on a satirical claim that Soros filed for bankruptcy after funding the No Kings protests. 


Sources

Emery, David. "Did George Soros Say His Life's Mission Is to Destroy the United States?" Snopes, 2 Feb. 2018, https://www.snopes.com//fact-check/george-soros-destroy-united-states/.


"HOST TOOLKIT." No Kings, https://www.nokings.org/host-toolkit. Accessed 23 Oct. 2025.


Indivisible And Partners Announce 'NO KINGS' Nationwide Day of Defiance on Flag Day, During Trump's Birthday Parade | Indivisible. 6 May 2025, https://indivisible.org/statements/indivisible-and-partners-announce-no-kings-nationwide-day-defiance-flag-day-during.


Instagram. https://www.instagram.com/popular/no-kings/. Accessed 23 Oct. 2025.


Kasprak, Alex. "FACT CHECK: Were Scientists Caught Tampering with Raw Data to Exaggerate Sea Level Rise?" Snopes, 22 Dec. 2017, https://www.snopes.com//fact-check/scientists-caught-tampering-raw-data-exaggerate-sea-level-rise/.


Liles, Jordan. "Trump Ad Falsely Claimed Biden and Harris 'Weaponized the IRS to Confiscate Your Tip Money.'" Snopes, 11 Sep. 2024, https://www.snopes.com//fact-check/trump-ad-on-inflation-reduction-act-taxes-on-tips/.


MacGuill, Dan. "FACT CHECK: Were Illegal Immigrants Arrested for Starting California Wildfires?" Snopes, 20 Oct. 2017, https://www.snopes.com//fact-check/immigrants-california-wildfires/.


"No Kings paid protesters." Google Search, https://www.google.com/search?q=no+kings+paid+protesters&oq=no+kings+paid&gs_lcrp=EgZjaHJvbWUqBggAEEUYOzIGCAAQRRg7MgYIARBFGDkyBggCEEUYPDIGCAMQRRg90gEINzAzMmowajeoAgCwAgA&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8. Accessed 24 Oct. 2025.


Open Society Foundations - Awarded Grants, Scholarships, and Fellowships. https://www.opensocietyfoundations.org/grants/past. Accessed 23 Oct. 2025.


"PARTNERS." No Kings, https://www.nokings.org/partners. Accessed 23 Oct. 2025.


@seamusbruner. 📊We Traced $294,487,641 to the Official No Kings 2.0 Partners & Organizers...All Funneled through the Same "Riot Inc." Dark-Money Networks: 💰 Arabella Network $79.7M+ 💰 Soros Network $72.1M+ 💰 Ford Network $51.7M+ 💰Tides $45.5M+ 💰 Rockefeller $28.6M+ 💰 Buffett $16.6M+. X, 16 Oct. 2025, https://x.com/seamusbruner/status/1978943052065464630.


The Open Society Foundations and George Soros: Some Facts. https://www.opensocietyfoundations.org/newsroom/open-society-foundations-and-george-soros. Accessed 23 Oct. 2025.


By Rae Deng

Rae Deng specializes in government/politics and is based in Tacoma, Wash.






Wednesday, May 7, 2025

WHO IS "SORCHA FAAL" ? - Catholic agents working for the the Harlot

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Notice the Catholic spiritual background of the guy behind Sorcha Faal, Qanon, etc.

This article will be topical in further elaboration on how the Hegelian Dialectic of the Devil used LGBTQ etc. to push "Christian fundamentalists" aka Christo Fascists in the fold of Rome.

Notice the mish-mash of spiritual fringe theories typical of the Satanic deception. For example mixing the CATHOLIC Virgin Mary with "extraterrestrial forms of intelligence", aka two different transmogrifications of the Devil and evil spiritual beings.

From their website:

https://www.whatdoesitmean.com/whoissorcha.htm

Sister Maria Theresa is the 73rd Sorcha Faal of the Sorcha Faal Order, Elected as Mother Superior 3 February 2007 whose order comprises 18 Monasteries in IrelandRussiaEgyptLebanon, and the United States.

The Order of Sorcha Faal was established in 588 (BCE) in Tara, County MeathIreland, whose founder was the oldest daughter of King Zedekiah, Tamar Tephi.

The name, Sorcha Faal, comes from the ancient Gaeilge branch of the Goidelic languages of Ireland and has the meaning of:  Sorcha, She Who Brings Light, and Faal, the Dark and Barren Place.

The Sisters of Sorcha Faal are a cloistered order (kept away from the outside world; sheltered) devoted to ancient Biblical, religious and scientific study whose only contact is through intermediaries.

The WhatDoesItMean.com website used to disseminate Sorcha Faal reports was created for and donated to the Sisters of Sorcha Faal in 2003 by a small group of American computer experts led by the late global technology guru Wayne Green (1922-2013) to counter the propaganda being used by the West to promote their illegal 2003 invasion of Iraq.


It doesn't matter if nothing as pertain the circumstancial context is true from the description, what matters is the will to use evil spirituality as bait for the naive.

Notice the witchcraft under that woman bringing light. Satan in 2 Corinthians 11:14-15 :

14And no marvel; for Satan himself is transformed into an angel of light.

15Therefore it is no great thing if his ministers also be transformed as the ministers of righteousness; whose end shall be according to their works.


 

Wednesday, May 7, 2025

Sorcha Faal agent of the Costantinian empire promoting Putin's image in the conspiracy world [The Unhived Mind, December 25, 2007]

https://oldblogsneverdie.blogspot.com/2025/05/sorcha-faal-agent-of-costantinian.html



Thursday, September 11, 2014

Western-Eastern Roman Empire 101

https://continuingcounterreformation.blogspot.com/2014/09/western-eastern-roman-empire-101.html



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The Man Behind the Right Wing’s Favorite Conspiracy Theories

Meet David Booth, the fake news peddler who is helping Russia spread its lies.

https://newrepublic.com/article/155896/man-behind-right-wings-favorite-conspiracy-theories

Seth Hettena/December 9, 2019


No one is sure where President Trump got the idea that the Democratic National Committee’s hacked server was hidden in Ukraine. As the impeachment saga unfolds, even the president’s most ardent defenders, from Senator John Kennedy of Louisiana to Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, would rather talk about quid pro quos or revive the discredited claim that Ukraine, not Russia, interfered in the 2016 United States presidential election—anything to avoid discussing an evidence-free case that borders on lunacy. In her powerful testimony before the House Intelligence Committee, Fiona Hill, a former White House foreign policy adviser, characterized the story of the “missing” server as one of the fictions propagated by Russia’s security services, and Trump’s own staff had made a point of debunking it for the president. Nevertheless, in his fateful phone call of July 25, when the president asked Ukraine’s newly elected president to “do us a favor” and track down the DNC server, U.S. foreign policy was officially replaced by a conspiracy theory.


As tends generally to be the case with most of the overheated conspiracy theories lighting up the internet and our political culture at large, the story of the Ukraine-based server is something of an urban legend for the digital age—caroming across our badly warped systems of news delivery from some great Oz-like font of right-wing misinformation, and just as abruptly alighting on our president’s diplomatic to-do list. Internet anonymity hides the identities of those behind the curtain who push this and scores of other coordinated assaults on consensual reality, from the insane anti-Semitic libels that inspire­ armed young men to march into synagogues and open fire, to the unhinged speculations of the mysterious “Q” who posts cryptic messages revealing Trump’s secret war against a cabal of pedophiles in the American government and Hollywood.


There are exceptions, however. In a handful of cases, it’s possible to trace some of the most destructive theories back to their source. Take, for example, the conspiracy theory that DNC staffer Seth Rich was killed in 2016 by a “hit team”; or the campaign seeking to tar Christine Blasey Ford, the woman who accused Justice Kavanaugh of sexually assaulting her in high school, as deeply tied to the CIA; or the report that the bones of children were found on Jeffrey Epstein’s island—all these myths lead back to one person. In each of these cases, we can confidently trace the confabulation in question to a man named David Lawrence Booth.  


A 64-year-old retired chemical plant control-room operator, Booth is one of the world’s foremost purveyors of conspiracies and fake news. Writing under the nom de plume of Sorcha Faal on his website What Does It Mean, Booth and his wife have spent the past 15 years cooking up fabricated tales of impending war, government cover-ups, looming financial collapse, alien arrivals, Satanic acts, earthquake weapons, man-made hurricanes, global apocalypse, and “deep state” machinations of all descriptions. On his website, Booth has falsely suggested that he is an officer in the Mossad or the CIA. The truth about his life is equally fascinating—Booth happens to have been the youngest person ever to attempt to hijack a plane in the U.S.—and an examination of his past, with its links to both Russia and Russian disinformation campaigns, opens a rare window into how and why someone can be drawn into the world of conspiracies.


At first glance, it’s hard to imagine that anyone takes What Does It Mean seriously. The site’s logo is stuffed with a fifth grader’s idea of mysticism: the Virgin Mary, a dragon, a tarot card, a winged horse, and Noah’s ark. Pages are littered with multicolored links, and the whole thing has an amateurish feel, harkening back to the days of DIY web construction in the mid-1990s. Yet What Does It Mean attracts visitors in numbers that would be a marked improvement over those pulled down by, say, a midsize newspaper’s website—roughly three-quarters of a million views in busy months, according to Alexa search rankings. Fans translate the site’s posts into French and Spanish, read them aloud on YouTube, and discuss them online. One measure of the power of a conspiracy theory is how far and how deeply it spreads, and Booth’s reports travel the globe. Laundered through a constellation of more respectable-looking, but no less empirically dodgy websites, they emerge in overseas news outlets cited as fact. That’s how, to take just one example, Iran’s news agency, Fars, was duped into reporting in 2014 that top-secret documents leaked by Edward Snowden showed that U.S. policy has been guided by extraterrestrial intelligence.


The site’s slogan is “the news you need today … for the world you’ll live in tomorrow,” but in many ways Booth’s world is already here. The election of a conspiracy theorist in chief has pushed conspiracies, lies, and half-truths onto the front pages and the evening news, while the advent of the internet and social media give web-savvy conspiracy peddlers access to a much larger global market than they formerly dared to dream of reaching. Conspiracy theories have become the political lingua franca of the Trump era—another sordid, sensationalist body of lies sold to people on the fringes of society who have been lied to so often they make sense out of nonsense. The stories are fake, told by a fictional person, but to many devotees, they feel true, and that keeps people coming back to Booth’s site for more.


“I’m getting tired of everybody saying that Sorcha Faal is a fake,” complained Gary Larrabee, an elderly YouTuber with 35,000 followers who’s fond of reading Faal’s posts aloud. “I’ve been following her for 20 years. She’s not right on everything, but what other media service is more reliable?” Carol Elmer, a widow who posts stories from What Does It Mean on her Facebook page nearly every day, says she values the site for a “perspective” she can find nowhere else. She said she is aware of reports that Booth is the sole author of the site’s content, as well as the claim pushed by Booth himself that he’s “an ex-CIA operative.” Most remarkably, she even downplays the frequency with which her computer crashes when she visits What Does It Mean—a common sign of multilayered hacking efforts. “I figure you only catch flak when you are over the target,” she told me.


Booth, who wears a large, white Santa Claus beard and lives with his wife in a modest home near the Smoky Mountains in Tennessee, declined repeated requests to speak with me. He is, by both profession and temperament, a suspicious man—a Google search shows his driveway lined with “No Trespassing” signs—and his guarded posture toward the world is inevitably reinforced by encounters with the kind of people his website attracts. In 2004, as What Does It Mean was finding its first significant online following, a fan showed up in the backyard of his previous home in New Hampshire. “You and I both know that some of these people aren’t the kind of people you want at your house,” Booth’s son, Justin, told me.  And to judge by the people who share David Booth’s stories on Twitter, it’s wise to be wary. His work is popular with followers of QAnon, the pro-Trump conspiracy theory group that the FBI recently labeled as a domestic terrorism threat.  The U.S. government, which has been tracking Booth’s site for years, used nearly a dozen links from What Does It Mean as background for a 2009 Department of Homeland Security report on the threat of right-wing extremism—before, that is, an outcry from right-wing political leaders prompted the Obama White House to mothball the report and many of its recommendations.


A day after I contacted all the phone numbers and emails I had collected for Booth, I received a reply from one of his email accounts. “Hello Seth Hettena, We’ve been waiting for you, or at least someone like you, for many years.” The email was signed by a “Nun Rahab,” who told me the email address (which I found on a family genealogy page) had been set up under Booth’s name to “catch” reporters like me who were fascinated by “one of the most mysterious persons I’ve ever come across in my entire life.” Nun Rahab’s email about Booth was a mix of fact and fantasy that tried to suggest Booth was a CIA psychic, but the writer did show a familiarity with intimate details of Booth’s life that turned out to be true, such as his recent medical problems, as well as previously unreported incidents from 27 years ago.


Although Nun Rahab claimed to be writing me from outside the U.S. (somewhere in the time zone that includes Amsterdam and Vienna), the emails I received showed they were coming from a data center near Knoxville, Tennessee, not far from Booth’s home. When I pointed this out, I received a call in no short order from Booth’s son, Justin, who told me his father had dictated him a note that appeared to be an attempt to make me believe that David Booth had nothing to do with the site he founded. This turned out to be a mistake. First, Justin Booth and I started talking about his father and his website, and second, it resolved any nagging doubts I had about who was really behind the site. Nun Rahab was David Booth.


I tried to ask “Nun Rahab” about the website’s fascination with Russia and whether someone from abroad was feeding What Does It Mean its information, or, more precisely, its disinformation. The site’s content has followed the same basic pattern for most of the past 15 years: A “chilling,” “astounding and frankly terrifying,” or “heart-stopping” new report out of a Kremlin ministry or a Russian intelligence agency has revealed some frightening bombshell or some new orders issued by Russian President Vladimir Putin. Booth’s obsession with Russia has perplexed members of his family. When Justin asked him once what it was all about, his father told him, “I can’t talk about it.”


Until the 2016 election, the lurid fare featured on What Does It Mean could easily be dismissed as overheated, but ultimately harmless, nuttery.  Here, too, we can fix a fairly precise point of origin for the site’s ascension in the Trump era: On May 6, 2016, What Does It Mean revealed that a “war of words” had broken out inside the Kremlin about whether to release tens of thousands of emails that Russian spies had obtained from Hillary Clinton’s private email server. The dispute, What Does It Mean reported, was between Alexander Bortnikov, the head of the Russian FSB, the successor agency to the KGB, and Valentina Matviyenko, the speaker of Russia’s upper house of Parliament. In fact, although it was not yet public knowledge, Russia did have thousands of emails Russian spies had obtained from the DNC servers and the Clinton campaign that would shortly be released by WikiLeaks. What Does It Mean’s story was quickly picked up by the fervently pro-Trump website The Gateway Pundit. Fox News contributor Andrew Napolitano (a onetime Trump ally who’s since fallen out with the president) discussed it on Megyn Kelly’s show and later in a column in The Washington Times. At the summit of the innuendo-laden right-wing news cycle, Sean Hannity repeated the substance of the What Does It Mean report on his radio show. Neither Napolitano nor Hannity credited the original source.

On July 13, 2016, three days after Seth Rich was gunned down in the streets of Washington, D.C., in what investigators suspect was a botched robbery, Sorcha Faal quoted a “somber” account from the SVR, Russia’s foreign intelligence agency, claiming that Rich was preparing to testify against Hillary Clinton. Instead, he was assassinated by a “hit team” during a secret meeting he believed he was having with the FBI. The “hit team,” the report continued, was captured after a prolonged gun battle near the White House. It was all a lie, except for one critical part: The What Does It Mean report matched details in an actual SVR disinformation “bulletin.”


In a story first reported by Yahoo News’ Michael Isikoff, Deborah Sines, the U.S. attorney in Washington overseeing the Rich murder case, learned of the SVR bulletin from U.S. intelligence as she grappled with the many conspiracy theories swirling around the case. (Sines declined to speak with me.) The details of the What Does It Mean story matched those in the SVR bulletin—Rich’s purported meeting with the FBI, a Hillary Clinton “hit team,” and the gun battle near the White House. The SVR bulletin had been written—in Russian, Isikoff told me—on July 13, the same day that What Does It Mean published its report, which contained a helpful note: “Some words and/or phrases appearing in quotes are English language approximations of Russian words/phrases having no exact counterpart.”


The “hit team” story was knocked down the following day by the fact-checking site Snopes—a fate shared by many of the site’s dispatches that go viral. But as in most of these cases, the damage had already been done: The story was blood in the water for a large audience long predisposed to believe that the Clintons murder people. The ranks of these believers included Roger Stone, Newt Gingrich, and Donald Trump, who resurrected a common hard-right conspiracy theory from the long-ago time before internet virality, dubbing the circumstances of Clinton White House attorney Vince Foster’s 1993 death “very fishy.”


For his part, “Nun Rahab” told me it was “preposterous” to suggest that What Does It Mean used secret Russian government information. Someone in the U.S. intelligence community was obviously trying to make me think that, Nun Rahab suggested, adding “maybe your mind should turn around and consider the possibility that it’s us who are talking to them.” When I asked Nun Rahab about the source of the “hit team” story, he pointed out that What Does It Mean wasn’t the only high-profile the-truth-is-out-there site raising suspicions about Rich’s murder. None of the examples he cited went beyond speculation, and more significantly, this was an answer to a question I wasn’t asking. When I pressed the question, I received disquisitions about international finance and the price of gold. I had my own Twitter posts quoted back at me and was told to stick to facts instead of unsupported short-term political agendas. Later, I heard from “Brian,” the webmaster at What Does It Mean, who wrote letters to the Justice Department accusing me of using my FBI contacts to “access restricted U.S. government database information on a private American citizen named David Booth.”

Without a full-fledged government investigation, it’s nearly impossible to figure out how an SVR bulletin wound up on What Does It Mean, said Clint Watts, a senior fellow at the Foreign Policy Research Institute and (yes) a former FBI agent. Although he didn’t know any specific background information about Booth or his site, Watts said the Kremlin does identify outlets willing to publish virtually anything and supplies them with material when they need to push a particular message. This battery of online “useful idiots,” as Watts called them, may have one-on-one contact with Russian operatives or receive (dis)information passed through third parties. “The closer you get to Moscow, the more they are in coordination with the Kremlin,” he said. “The further away you get the less so, unless they happen to have traveled back and forth to Russia and developed connections—or [if] they’re really into Russia or Vladimir Putin.”


Booth is really into Russia. In the early 1990s, while Booth was living in Nashua, New Hampshire, he and his then wife launched a charity drive called “To Russia, With Love” that collected 4,500 pounds of donated food, clothing, and medicine to help former Soviet citizens get through the winter. When that marriage fell apart, Booth entered into a series of relationships with Russian women, one of whom he sued for libel and accused of stealing nearly $30,000 worth of his household goods during a contentious divorce, according to court documents. He has visited Russia at least once. In 1995, a curious item appeared in The New York Times Magazine that identified David Booth as president of a Nashua-based company called “War Tours Ltd.” that offered clients visits to war zones in places like the former Soviet Union. There was no record of War Tours Ltd. at the New Hampshire secretary of state’s office, and I heard later that Booth told his son that the whole thing was a hoax to prove that the media would publish anything.


Booth’s Russian infatuation is reciprocated on the far side of the former Iron Curtain. Booth and his alter ego Sorcha Faal have become a reliable source of fascination in Russia’s mediasphere, where news outlets have fallen for several of his viral hoaxes, such as the 2014 What Does It Mean report claiming that 13 CIA military operatives had been killed in Ukraine on a mission to help battle Russian forces invading the country. In recent years, the Russian press has published numerous  “Who is Sorcha Faal?” stories. Among them is a 2009 story in the Russian newspaper Izvestia that quoted two leading Russian experts on information warfare. Alexander Dugin, an ultranationalist Russian political scientist who is considered close to Putin, maintained that What Does It Mean was an example of what he called “network wars”: “Organizations that are neither special forces nor secret societies arrange for the information to be thrown around. For example, ideological divisions waging geopolitical war.” Igor Panarin, a Russian political scientist and former KGB officer, told Izvestia that “of course” Western and Western-aligned intelligence services were behind the website, but it wasn’t clear whether it was the British MI6, Israel’s Mossad, the CIA, or the U.S. National Security Agency. The Russian experts saw the site as a way of increasing geopolitical tensions between, say, Russia and Iran in an untraceable way.

Over the same general timeline, a robust network of global conspiracy-mongering sites has sprung up to help Booth spread lies. Sorcha Faal’s stories were occasionally promoted by Russian internet trolls connected to the Internet Research Agency, a St. Petersburg troll farm that amplified divisive content during the 2016 election, according to millions of online postings released by Twitter from thousands of IRA accounts. Kremlin-aligned Twitter trolls tracked by the Alliance for Securing Democracy, an initiative of the German Marshall Fund, have occasionally done the same thing over the past few years, according to Eric Ellason, a security researcher at Slickrockweb, a small data analytics and information technology firm. One of the frequent reposters of Sorcha Faal stories is The European Union Times, a site the Southern Poverty Law Center found was registered to Jessica Nachtman, whose husband, Christopher, was identified as a racist skinhead gang member.  (Jessica Nachtman told the SPLC she provides web hosting for a “European” she declined to identify.) Overseas, Sorcha Faal stories often land on the Bulgarian site Strogo Sekretno (Top Secret), published by Krassimir Ivandjiiski, whose son, Daniel, founded Zero Hedge, a website owned by a Bulgarian company that pushes right-wing conspiracy theories and publishes pro-Russia commentary originating in the West. This network of conspiracy sites repeats the same information so often that impressionable readers who stumble into it can leave thinking they’ve done their homework, said Emerson Brooking, a resident fellow at the Digital Forensic Research Lab of the Atlantic Council, a think tank. “The effect on these people is they get enmeshed in these worlds of conspiracy theories, and it becomes harder and harder to make their way back out,” he said.


As the 2020 election approaches, What Does It Mean’s far-flung conspiracy network has Russian disinformation experts like Watts worried. “Russia doesn’t have a Wikileaks or DC Leaks this time,” he said. “The only option if they wanted to mess around is to go to conspiracy websites, go to friendly outlets that we call ‘fellow traveler’ outlets, content providers that share Russia’s worldview, and deliver them information one-to-one, and let them be the messenger into the target audience space.”

There’s no surefire way to pinpoint the birth of a full-fledged conspiracy-monger, but, if one were to take a stab at such a thing in Booth’s case, the night of May 16, 1979, would be a strong contender. At the time, Booth, then 23, was managing a rental-car office and getting over a troubled childhood that had exploded a decade earlier onto the evening news. A self-described “confused, messed-up kid,” Booth had cut school one day in the fall of 1969 and gone to the airport in his native Cincinnati. There, he took a teenage girl hostage with a butcher knife, boarded a plane, and demanded to be flown to Sweden. Airport police were able to quickly talk him down, and the 14-year-old surrendered without incident when authorities promised not to arrest him.   

If ever there was a cry for help, this was clearly one, but Booth’s family washed its hands of him. Newspaper reports quoted an attorney for the parents calling Booth “mentally ill,” and his family declared him incorrigible, which made the boy a ward of the state. The system, however, showed Booth the mercy that his parents couldn’t or wouldn’t. Instead of locking him up in juvenile detention, a judge sentenced him to a home for vulnerable children, which helped him get his life back together. The judge “was the one person who had enough faith in kids that they could be rehabilitated,” Booth told The Cincinnati Enquirer nearly three decades later. “I haven’t been in trouble with the law since.”


Ten years after the hijacking, on that night in 1979, Booth was living in Cincinnati with a wife and a newborn baby, when he had the first in a series of disturbing, recurring dreams involving an American Airlines airliner that crashed upside-down. After experiencing the same dream for several nights running, Booth called the Federal Aviation Administration and told the agency about it. Three days later, American Airlines Flight 191 rolled over and crashed after takeoff from Chicago, killing 273 people in what remains the deadliest passenger airline accident on U.S. soil. In a story that appeared in The Chicago Tribune, the FAA conceded that there were remarkable similarities between the dream and the crash, but Booth himself was skeptical.  “I don’t believe in any of that spooky stuff, you know?” he said.


Over time, though, Booth became a believer. His dreams of Flight 191 led to a string of appearances on TV shows exploring the paranormal, such as In Search Of… and Arthur C. Clarke’s World of Strange Powers. When A&E Television Networks aired a show that featured Booth’s dream with an actor playing him and got key details wrong, the future founder of one of the world’s foremost sources of fake news sued the network for, among other things, defamation and deceiving the public. In his lawsuit, filed in 1997, Booth said he had never experienced any subsequent premonitions of any kind, but “he carefully guards the story of his 1979 experience because he feels that if it were to occur again in the future, his continued credibility will be extremely important.”  (The case was later settled out of court, and representatives of A&E did not return messages seeking comment.)


“I love my dad. He’s been a great dad, but when you are the son of, arguably, the only documented psychic in the history of the country, it can be taxing,” Booth’s son, Justin, told me.


Sure enough, six years after the A&E lawsuit, the premonitions came again, and this time they foretold a much larger disaster. In March 2003, Booth had a series of dreams about a “large, dark planetary object” hurtling toward the Earth followed by a huge explosion. Identifying himself as an “internationally-known psychic,” Booth registered What Does It Mean later that year as a collaboration with his friend, the late Wayne Green, an early computer pioneer.  With Green’s help, and his past dreams of Flight 191 serving as his calling card, Booth appeared on Coast-to-Coast, a hugely popular, overnight AM radio show on the paranormal. The man who didn’t believe in spooky stuff was, in the promotional language of the show, now “the only person in the world to have had a pre-cognitive experience fully documented prior to the event by a government agency.”


Booth moved quickly to capitalize on his Coast-to-Coast appearance with a 2004 book, Code Red: The Coming Destruction of the United States, which his son, Justin, hastily assembled by hand.  The dream and book came at an opportune time for Booth, who had endured three personal bankruptcies, three broken marriages, and the dissolution of his latest venture, a computer business. But Booth’s burgeoning career as a twenty-first-century psychic came to an end almost as quickly as it had begun. He traveled to Europe and returned claiming he had met with Sister Lucia of Fatima, a Carmelite nun celebrated for her visions of the Virgin Mary. Coast-to-Coast invited Booth back again in 2004 to discuss his meeting with Sister Fatima, but he refused to talk about it and was kicked off the air and banned from the show. The show’s host, George Noory, said he had been duped. A barrister in Australia claimed that Code Red plagiarized his wife’s 2002 article word for word, down to the typographical errors. The credibility that Booth had carefully nurtured for years was destroyed.


It was around this time that Sorcha Faal appeared. Displaying a knack for reinvention, Booth took his name off his website to be replaced by the mysterious Ms. Faal’s. She was initially described as a Russian researcher from St. Petersburg with an engineering background and, later, as a nun from a made-up Irish order said to predate Jesus. Faal’s picture on What Does It Mean is that of Booth’s current wife, Kathy. 

What motivates a man to wake up every morning and write lies? I had started this story thinking it would yield some insight about Russia’s hidden hand in U.S. affairs, but another story was staring me right in the face. “The only reason to run and start a website like that is to do it as a business,” Justin Booth says.


Booth’s lies have managed to attract a large audience, which he regularly importunes for donations. A September post about the “forces of Lucifer” trying to destroy President Trump concludes with a plea that would sound familiar to every public radio listener: “Our needs today are dire indeed, but, if every one of you reading this gave just $20.00 today, our budget for the entire year would be met!” David Booth told Justin that What Does It Mean takes in between $5,000 and $7,000 a month in donations, which is more than the average salary in Tennessee. Despite a total of five bankruptcies between them, Booth and his wife now hold title to more than 100 acres of land in Kentucky.


I made a $1 contribution to What Does It Mean via PayPal. The contribution was refunded, but PayPal provided me with contact information that connects the money to Booth via his Nevada company Long Trail Acres Publishing LLC, previously identified as the registrant of What Does It Mean. (In papers filed in 2012 in connection with his fourth bankruptcy, Booth stated that he last worked for Long Trail Acres four years earlier.) There’s also an LLC called Sisters of Sorcha Faal in Nevada registered to Booth’s wife, Kathy, presumably for some business venture connected to the phony religious order.


What Does It Mean also tries to profit from the fears of its audience in other ways. In 2010, the site offered readers the limited opportunity for $24.99 to buy a “Cloak of Athena” that was said to protect them from government eavesdroppers and credit-card thieves. “Danger is upon you now,” the site warned, “it lies in your cell phone listening in on every conversation you have and tracking every place you go and in every ID and credit card you leave unprotected.  Make your decision about this incredible offer before it’s too late!” 


Of course, the conspiracy business can lead to even bigger things. There is no better example of this right now than Donald Trump, whose meteoric rise to power came on the back of the racist “birther” conspiracy theory he pushed for years—a completely bogus claim that President Barack Obama was not born in the United States. Trump’s shameless conspiracy peddling gave him a platform to launch a presidential campaign that would be “the greatest infomercial in political history,” according to his former attorney, Michael Cohen. “Mr. Trump ran for office to make his brand great,” Cohen told Congress under oath, “not to make our country great.”


Conspiracy is also a business that has made people like Alex Jones, the founder of Infowars, very rich. Jones’s angry, nativist rants and conspiracy theories, about everything from the sinister origins of “chemtrails” to the horrifically baseless assertion that the Sandy Hook school massacre was a “false flag” action orchestrated by the federal government, have propelled the Trump-allied radio talker into lucrative national renown—even as his Sandy Hook lies have led to defamation lawsuits from parents of murdered children. By 2014, Jones’s Infowars empire was generating $20 million a year in revenue and $5 million in profits, according to an investigation by The New York Times. Most of that money came from the sale of supplements like “Super Male Vitality” and “Brain Force Plus.” (Not coincidentally, What Does It Mean runs advertising for Phi Sciences, an Arizona company that sells supplements like “Mega Hydrate” and “Crystal Energy.”) Likewise, the legions of QAnon followers have inspired a bazaar of online merchants hawking Q-branded T-shirts, ball caps, iPhone cases, coffee mugs, and books. 

Like the mysterious “Q,” Sorcha Faal is a mask—one that David Booth dons in order to spin out his fantasies from an imaginary arm’s-length source. The Faal persona also allows him to keep his two identities separate: David Booth ran a local union representing workers at a New Hampshire chemical plant; Sorcha Faal writes about the “leftist-socialist union bosses trying to destroy President Trump.” David Booth told his son he was excited about the historic election of Barack Obama as the first African-American president of the United States; less than a month later, Sorcha Faal wrote that “Obama from Kenya” presaged the age of the “Mark of the Beast” and noted the “stunning parallels” between Hitler’s and Obama’s rise to power. David Booth sues for libel and defamation when people get facts wrong; Sorcha Faal produces mountains of fake news and defamatory content.


Russia may be the flavor of the month, but the sad, shabby truth about Booth and his world of conspiracies is that it’s just another cruelly exploitative business, one that offers a fleeting, intoxicating glimpse of a hidden world for readers and listeners who feel ever more lost and overlooked in the real one. What drives a man to wake up every morning and write lies and fables is, in other words, the same thing that drove the old snake-oil salesman to travel from town to town peddling tinctures and other bogus home medical remedies. Like his fellow conspiracy peddlers Donald Trump, Sean Hannity, and Alex Jones, David Booth is a true believer, until believing is bad for business.


Seth Hettena

Seth Hettena is the author of Trump/Russia: A Definitive History.


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