The solution to identity politics, at least in the case of Revolution Q, is to simply shed your identity. Only by doing this, it seems, can freedom of speech exist. At least, that would be the implication that the author Neon Revolt (itself an invented identity) promotes in this seven-hundred-page tome. This book was crowd-funded via Indiegogo and the figures are anywhere from $50,000 to $160,000 raised for its publishing. For an unknown author, this is quite good for a first book considering some book contracts are only awarded $5,000 for an advance. Though this book was available on Amazon, it is clear that it no longer appears there. Either way, the writer must have been able to make a decent living from this book which shows alternative publishing is possible provided a person can grab the attention of the funding population.
Neon Revolt serves as a valuable eyewitness account of the unfolding of the Q movement. Though he sometimes conflates the terms Qanon with the Q movement, (there are anons and there is Q) it is clear that there is a lot of behind-the-scenes material here that discusses the unfolding of what the thesis of the book advances is the first public disclosure of intelligence secrets by some or many insiders. These insiders have Q clearance, and they are providing posts to people on image boards that are called anons. (their identities effectively become long strings of numbers) This arena allows these disclosures to happen since the nature of the communication method does not allow any one person to be identified as having said or done a thing. What emerges from this is a crackdown on the military-industrial complex from independent researchers who unravel the clues that are given by the insiders who post. (the insiders cannot reveal information that would blow any secret operations)
What follows is, without a doubt, a wild, disturbing ride. In the Bible, it is indicated that the Egyptians were constantly sacrificing children for one reason or another. The dominant reason they did this was to try to weaken the Hebrew people as they feared them. For this, eventually, God judged them with terrifying plagues. Most of the content of these posts from the perspective of Neon Revolt concerns what can only be labeled as Satanic exploitation and murder of children. Far from being a conspiracy, the Bible makes clear this was done. Q posts indicate it is STILL being done and covered up by the “elite” of the nation. Blinders have been placed on the masses to make them complicit in these actions. These are the tenets Neon Revolt witnesses and unfolds and consequently writes about.
Additionally, it appears that whatever Q is working for, he/she/they have the power to shut down supercomputers and rogue AIs that are misbehaving or are being used for other clandestine purposes by intelligence agencies that do not want these disclosures being made public.
The cooperation between researchers is impressive. In one case, the anons can locate a flag that is hoisted at a random location around the world by using some simple mathematics and working together to determine where it is. The anons begin to behave as a kind of public intelligence agency.
The usual deep-state suspects are also present in this work. Most of the material provides evidence for what is now widely known or media-branded conspiracy theories. Pizzagate. Saudi Arabia. Rothschilds. Aliens. The Titanic. It’s all here. What makes this different as a body of work, though, is that there is an evidence trail. Whereas a classical conspiracy theorist is seen as a paranoid person who advances ideas based on propositions that are not well-founded, the Q posts seem to invite people to consider the evidence. Not only should a person consider the evidence, but they ought to carefully use logic reason and deduction! This is a far cry from a traditional conspiracy theorist who “wants to believe”.
Neon Revolt’s position is watching all this unfold and playing a key role in the unfolding by solving specific pieces of the puzzle. A part of the book that reads slowly is about his or her own life, but this disclosure is made so that we understand the “lens” that Neon Revolt is utilizing. This part could have been condensed or left out entirely, but it does add some evidence to the credibility of Neon Revolt as a witness.
What is particularly interesting is that one can find a thousand so-called crackpot books on conspiracies available on Amazon. If it were the case that this book is simply that, why did Amazon feel the need to remove it? If it is all craziness, then sell it and make the money from printing it, and allow people to be crazy as one would with any other book. A person can easily find, for instance, Mein Kampf, so if the concern is that Revolution Q might make people more extreme, how does one justify leaving Hitler’s chief manifesto up for sale?
Indeed, Neon Revolt has a lot to say about the story of Hitler as the clues are unwound. Hitler was more of a puppet is the conclusion. Likewise, Obama is also more of a puppet. Fine. Political books have made accusations about everyone from the very beginning of politics. When Amazon leaves a book up by Hitler that inspired genocide without a doubt, but apparently takes down a book that says, among other things, that Hitler was a puppet, it makes the claim seem stronger that Amazon is working for the same kinds of forces Hitler was! This is especially true if the claims in Revolution Q are inherently crazy! Make the money, and let the crazy be crazy? It’s good business, and we all know Amazon loves money.
The conclusion of the book is a favorite of the reviewer since nobody can argue with it regardless of what they think about the rest of the book. Neon Revolt tells us that if all the above is true, we should certainly repent and live more humble lives and, this is important, live differently as a result. Let’s assume none of what Q said is true. Let’s assume every anon was a paid shill by some three-lettered agency. Has anyone led a good enough life on this Earth that they feel like they have no need of repentance? Whatever ‘conspiracy theory’ gets a person to that point, we need more of them since that road leads to turning back to God. Mein Kampf surely did not lead to turning back to God until terrible consequences mounted and even then people seem to have forgotten the lessons of history. If everything written here is true, then it gives one a very good reason for believing that the testimony of the works of the Earth are usually evil. Without God, people become beasts, and are capable of unthinkable levels of atrocity and deception. Neon Revolt is the person present for the unfolding of this vile tapestry. He/she is a reliable witness as to his/her experience. Everyone who has any interest on either the con or the for side of the Q movement should read this book to better understand what the movement is. That is, providing of course, they find a copy.
Dark Victory is a well-researched book. The subtitle reads Ronald Reagan, MCA, and the Mob, which one would think would narrow the scope significantly. The outcome, however, is that Ronald Reagan really does not feature all that much. It would be more accurate to call this book Sidney Korshak, MCA, and the Mob. Mr. Korshak is nearly omnipresent in this work. Reagan, though, is more like a background fixture.
The modus operandi for this book coming out in 1986 must have been, on some level, to try to link the Republican Party to the mob via the means of Reagan. It may well be that it was published then to try to sway the 1988 elections toward the Democratic Party. There are many names in this book that tie to the mafia, the underworld, Hollywood, and politics. The connections are clear although keeping track of who is doing what is quite difficult and would probably require a corkboard, some red string and a large wall. What is quite evident, though, is that MCA or the Music Corporation of America managed to move from the realm of radio where it dominated the motion picture business. Reagan was a part of this time and place as he worked with MCA in myriad ways from entertainment to the presidency.
What is made clear from the text is that MCA was about the only show in town. It died a little during the Justice Department’s prosecution of it under Kennedy, but then it grew back like some weed in a garden. It was able to do the things it did in part by holding two differing roles–that of production and talent agency–and eventually got big enough it could push the smaller players around into accepting movies and bands that they really did not want to accept. The punishment was that if they did not make these deals, they would not get access to the bigger stars that would make their venue money.
When it comes to the post-World War II labor unions, it seems that history makes it hard to distinguish labor unions from organized crime. The Teamsters, for instance, represent truckers but are immersed in unsavory connections. MCA is connected to the mob, communists, and labor unions exerting pressure and breaking strikes. A host of other three-lettered movie agencies are involved who are most often opposed to MCA and the things it does since usually it is to their unique disadvantage. Reagan is represented by MCA after his talent agency is bought out by them, and he goes to work for the Screen Actors Guild as the president of that establishment. MCA helps Reagan out at times, and in other moments Reagan is helping MCA or defending it. From the standpoint of labor unions and being an actor, it makes sense that one is going to naturally back the places that are putting food on the table and providing work. Indeed, Reagan seems to see it this way as does most any other labor union.
When pressed under hard questioning, Reagan uses the “I don’t recall” standby. Of course, in hindsight, he did have Alzheimer’s later, so it may well have been that his memory wasn’t that great with which to start. What he did do, after criticizing Kennedy no less for doing something of the same, was that he turned on the mob during his presidency. Sure, there were people he could not or would not go after. On the other hand, with any operation that goes after entrenched crime, there are going to be those who one cannot “get to” at that point. It is simply the nature of organized power that this is so. The narrative actually increases one’s understanding of what Reagan and Kennedy were up against and therefore one better understands the difficulty inherent in the situation.
An unintended consequence is to add additional levels of understanding to the murders of Hoffa and Kennedy through all these connections that Moldea traces. Still, another story that is periphery concerns the format wars between these companies where recording television programs were involved. None of them especially wanted people to be able to record anything on TV, but none of them wanted to be left out of the technology to do so knowing that people would naturally want this ability.
While the main thesis appears to be “look at all these people Reagan is rubbing shoulders with especially mob FRANK SINATRA”, the reality is that to do business in the world and to become president, it would have been almost impossible for Reagan to have encountered only saints on such a path. One does get the feeling he turned a blind eye some of the time. He did help MCA out in several ways. He also says during his presidency that he was tired of labor being invaded by mafia-esque forces and had seen it take place. He does not name any names, but one gets the feeling the implication concerns those with whom his career had flourished.
Whatever else this book was trying to do, it succeeds in making the case against Sidney Korshak. There seems to be literally nothing in here that the man hasn’t touched, and whatever he touches he appears to have enough powerful friends to be able to avoid any unpleasant consequences. The idea that Moldea seems to have is that if he can hook Reagan up with these “dirty people” then that means Reagan isn’t clean. Of course, in another standard, God said that Noah was blameless in his generation, not that he was blameless. This, of course, is not to suggest Reagan IS NOAH or somehow in the same company. It is to point out that one can be surrounded by nasty people and still be right in their spirit. The thesis Moldea is pushing just doesn’t work as perhaps he intended it to as far as Reagan is concerned.
The work of course is dated, and history has other issues that might make a stronger case against Reagan. This piece, however, sits as a who’s who from the fifties to the eighties, however, and allows one a very clear sense of the connections involved and the power brokering that took place. For that alone, Dan Moldea’s work stands out in a way that Joyce’s Ulysses stands out–like a snapshot in time of a city and its people. In this case, however, the city is a nation.
author’s note: Joe Biden makes some appearances within the work as well concerning Reagan’s initiative against organized crime. He is not, as far as the book reads exactly for it, but neither does he seem to be outright against it. He is probably best described as skeptical.
Stuart Briscoe wants to bring life back into the Church. As a minister, of course, this is an appropriate desire. The author died on August 3, 2022, but although he is passed, the character he has chosen is appropriate regardless of his physical presence on Earth or not. Mr. Briscoe has picked Ezekiel to demonstrate how “weird and wonderful” YHVH is.
For most Christians, Ezekiel is a “wild ride” because it touches on mysteries that common Christianity has lost touch with or worse, treats as topics that are not to be discussed. Briscoe is an early author of this type of work, and so there are a few errors present. For one, he totally avoids the clear astrological associations being pointed to in Ezekiel by proxy of the creatures that Ezekiel first describes. (A zodiac wheel is, after all, a wheel.) Secondly, he is not certain why it is that YHVH strikes Ezekiel dumb. The details are included in the narrative:
“Moreover, I will make your tongue stick to the roof of your mouth so that you will be unable to speak and will not be a man who reprimands them, since they are a rebellious house.” –Ezekiel 3:26
Ezekiel’s imposed silence is to keep his anger from getting the better of him, and then speaking to Israel in a way that a reprover might. This is done presumably because YHVH all ready knows their hearts and this path simply is not going to be open to them. Briscoe might be playing at being a skeptic on this matter, since he is showing how YHVH sometimes proceeds by methods that appear contradictory.
Other than these minor points of contention, Briscoe does a laudable job in telling the story of Ezekiel in a contemporary way that makes the narrative accessible. The heaviest theological lifting he does is to show how the vision of Ezekiel’s temple is never actually constructed. He offers several theological views for why this might be so, but informs the reader he himself is not going to take the risk to explain the discrepancy.
The rest of his telling of the story of Ezekiel makes it clear that the life of the Prophet was not easy, and builds steady momentum and pressure on the point up until, as the astute reader of Ezekiel knows, his wife dies as part of the larger lesson to Israel. Another good point made as this is occurring is how Jeremiah is also doing something similar, and how YHVH is looking for someone to fill the gap. Briscoe points out apparently neither Jeremiah nor Ezekiel counts as these gap fillers, perhaps because they are not numbered as “people who have lived in Jerusalem”–at least not in the sense that the penitence YHVH is looking for is demanded or meaningful.
By the time Ezekiel is preaching to the dried bones that come back to life, it becomes clear that Briscoe is addressing the Christian churches in no small way. Many congregations are dead, and they talk about much but do little. This fact becomes something of an uncomfortable joke in the book for Briscoe. He is looking, it seems, for something a little like Ezekiel to happen where the houses that are “dead” come back to life and are made into an army. “Christian soldiers” would seem to be the call, although not necessarily in a military sense. Certainly, revival. Ezekiel, although a ministry first and foremost about “woes” becomes, after the woes have been rendered, a Prophet that is concerned with eventual revival. Some of what he sees, Briscoe lets us know, overlaps with John in the book of Revelation. It may be, we are reminded, that some of what Ezekiel saw was about the end times as opposed to anything that was to be prior.
The most impressive thing about this book is for the time in which it was written, it reveals much. The edition used for this review was written in 1979 although the first printing appears to be 1977. For any work like this to exist in the 70s as a Christian mainstream book is, indeed, wonderful and weird. One understands that Briscoe must have had some special calling in order to have been able to write it.
