Falling down the fake news rabbit hole

Okay, so this whole thing started with a story about adrenochrome. Very quickly, it became clear that there was far more to the story then harvesting scared children’s blood, a mystery that if answered could provide some real insight into propaganda and the sketchy web of so-called “news” sites that make a living propping up conspiracy theories like adrenochrome, anti-vaxx, and the “Great Replacement.”

I was surfing a Qanon facebook group looking for something to write about. Scrolling past ageist memes about Greta Thunberg (Time’s Person of the Year!) and a story about the Saudi shooter in FL, I found a curious article titled, “Adrenochrome & Child Protective Services: Trafficking, Killing & Selling the Blood of Our Children” and decided to dig in.

Navigating to “DC Dirty Laundry,” the first thing I notice is the playful banner depicting a bra hanging on a clothesline (presumably, the titular “Dirty Laundry”).

I would come to find that the dirty laundry they were airing out had a very distinct smell. Here is a little whiff:

I am just going to highlight a few of these articles. “Another Leftist Brags About the Great Replacement” – an article where they interpret liberals (like Joy Reid, who pointed out that the change in demographics has changed the electorate) as “bragging” about the Great Replacement (a conspiracy theory that Brenton Tarrant cited as justification for the Christchurch shooting). Just under that is an article that explicitly encourages people to take up arms against the democrats, but as intense as that sounds I will have to get back to it in a future post – because we gotta get back to adrenochrome.

But, I want to quickly mention a simple but underrated concept: media literacy. The subject is detailed and I do not claim to be an expert, but understanding how to read and interpret all the media that is thrown at a person in 2019 is an indispensable skill. The first step in evaluating an article is to find out where the author is getting their information. Is it being reported by a local news outlet? Is it coming from an anonymous forum?

So, when I read any article, I find where the author links to their sources and check those first. A lot of sketchy “news” sites just reprint the work of other more reputable or popular outlets – often misconstruing the original source or misrepresenting it all together. Scrolling to the bottom, I find this statement: “Article posted with permission from Sons of Liberty Media” with a link to the original article. It turns out, this same story appears virtually unchanged on 5 different websites – four of which look to be basically the same website with slightly different layouts and names.

The original version of this article seems to have been posted on July 6, 2019 to Sons of Liberty Media by someone named Tim Brown. His bio states that he is the “author and Editor at FreedomOutpost.com, SonsOfLibertyMedia.com, GunsInTheNews.com and TheWashingtonStandard.com.” Side note, he apparently has 10 kids.

And Tim Brown seems to be connected to another fake news site that isn’t mentioned in his bio. In the background of his twitter account was the banner for a website called Reformed Media – a link aggregator of far right websites like Breitbart and zerohedge. Reformed Media is also somehow nebulously connected to Sons of Liberty Media.

Both DC Dirty Laundry and DC Clothesline seem to be run by someone named Dean Garrison. Though, most of the DC Laundry articles also appear in one form or another (most of the time copied verbatim) across Tim Brown’s fake news web.

I took a peek at Dean Garrison’s facebook page and found a link for an older version of DC Clothesline. I have two theories here.

Theory Number 1: The last blogpost on Dean’s old wordpress version of DC Clothesline could mean that Dean is a real person running a propaganda site. This post clearly states that he is moving to a new domain. Dean and others like Tim Brown could just share content with each other to beef out their output.

You might ask why I am suspicious of Dean Garrison being a real person (at least, the ‘Dean’ that is currently running DC Clothesline). Well, as I have been exploring the websites made by both Dean Garrison and Tim Brown, I have found that they share a whole lot more than articles.

Theory Number 2: Tim Brown and Dean Garrison are the same person (or group of people using aliases). Both Tim and Dean run webs of fake news sites that link back to each other. The layout, style, and overall tone of these different fake news websites is close enough to make me believe that they are being run by the same person. What’s even more suspicious, is there seem to be other authors who write for these websites. The problem is, none of them have bios or links to their websites accept these two, leading me to believe that the authors of these sites are using varied aliases to present the illusion of a whole team of people.

But, whether Tim and Dean are the same person or are working together, they are at least responsible for the spread of this adrenochrome article I found in a Qanon facebook group.

Regarding the adrenochrome, Tim Brown quotes Wikipedia’s description that reads,

“Adrenochrome is a chemical compound with the molecular formula C9H9NO3 produced by the oxidation of adrenaline (epinephrine). The derivative carbazochrome is a hemostatic medication. Despite a similarity in chemical names, it is unrelated to chrome or chromium.”

He goes on to explain that adrenochrome is harvested from blood. It is worth noting, that this next part is not in the Wikipedia article:

As we have seen before, the corrupt organizations working inside the united States are not only for the murder of unborn children but also want to harvest their organs and sell them off for profit. The same is true concerning blood, but not necessarily the blood of the unborn, but fully alive children who are murdered.

But where is this information coming from? Later on in the article, after shoehorning in a completely unconnected video that his friend made about CPS in 2016 (apparently where we get the “Child Protective Services” part in the article’s title), he goes on to explain how adrenochrome is harvested. Here, we find Tim’s source for this explosive adrenochrome info: a truly wingnutty blog that Tim calls ExposingPedoVore. I link to this website because it is worth looking at it yourself. It is in the timeless style of the forever scrolling, stream of consciousness rant blogs. Throughout the blog can be found some pretty fun imagery, too:

ExposingPedoVore doesn’t even pretend to source real news. The whole blog is just Pizzagate and Qanon conspiracies explained in a sort of essay format. Claims are explained with nebulous references to the Podesta emails. Here is how they explain the harvesting process of adrenochrome:

Adrenochrome is generally known to be harvested from the Pineal Glands of penguins in places such as Antarctica (the South Pole, an order of such is described in this WikiLeaks cable); however, this obviously does not meet the global luciferian elite’s needs for getting intoxicated and drunk on their conquests. Therefore, tying into pedogate (which was recently rolled up and uncovered by the United States DOJ), the luciferian elite instead kidnap children, rape, and torture them in order to concentrate the adrenaline/epinephrine in their glands, then harvest the adrenochrome from the glands while the subject is living (the Adrenochrome

does not last long in a post mortem) they sacrifice the child after the drug is extracted.

Anyone who is at least a little bit familiar with Qanon or Pizzagate will have heard something like this before. And of course, no write up about adrenochrome would be complete without mentioning Hunter S. Thompson (who’s mention of adrenochrome is known to be exaggerated or completely made up), a writer infamous for lying and stretching the truth.

The famed political pundit and novelist Hunter S. Thompson wrote of adrenochrome, and its powerful effects. The film adaptation of Thompson’s Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas even has a scene where a vial of a

Adrenochrome makes a cameo.

Notably, ExposingPedoVore explains what “walnut sauce” is. I would remind the reader, that walnut sauce was a random phrase pulled out of a Podesta email (part of the original invention of the pizzagate conspiracy theory) and since has taken on an insidious meaning in the Qanon community. ExposingPedoVore explains:

The Pineal Gland, a little gland inside the human brain named; ‘Pineal Gland’, also reffered to as ‘The Third Eye’, and it apperance is very similar to a walnut or a pine cone. ‘Walnut Sauce’ sounds very innocent, but that is code used by the luciferian pedophile cannibals. It’s their secret cannibalistic recepie that contain the ingridients of parts of the bodies of their victims, after they have, tortured, traumatized and sexually abused and finally murdered the children they cut out the parts of the childsbrain containing the Pineal Gland and they extract the dead childs blood, then they blend the Pineal Gland, the Pituirity Gland, and the Adrenalized blood into a mixture that they drink, the mixture is reffered to as; ‘Walnut Sauce’, by the luciferian pedophile cannibals. They believe that it will prevent them from aging and they get high from the Adrenochrome.

Feel free to read more of this bonkers blog, but I think I have made my point. Just to make it abundantly clear though, let’s review what we have learned here.

The Qanon facebook group that lead me down this rabbit hole is full of stories like this that lead to webs of interconnected fake news sites. In this case, some wingnut blog full of recycled Qanon theories gets quoted on a “conservative” or “patriot” news site. That article then is spread onto multiple fake news sites (clones with the same site format). Those sites are then shared on facebook by Qanon believers. Then, others read those articles and get redpilled (or “Q’d”) or have their suspicions confirmed.

Never is there any actual information being shared. There is no insider knowledge or evidence of any kind. But what happens when someone tries to look into adrenochrome – to do their own “research”? They find a constellation of fake news websites that confirm what the Qanon folks keep saying, without ever realizing that the “info” these websites and articles are spreading all come from an unsourced rant by an anon.

This is only the tip of the iceberg when it comes to this web of fake news sites. I mean, there is a disturbing amount of these sites that are openly “race realist”, are staunchly anti-vaxx, and openly call for violence against their political rivals. This investigation is ongoing and will continue.

On top of that, I am starting to believe that these fake news webs are being run outside of the United States by someone who speaks English as a second language. I will post more in depth about this theory in a later article, but I will leave you with something to think about. The image that I found at the top of the majority of these adrenochrome articles was titled “Adrenochrome-Harvesting-foto-YouTube”. It is worth pointing out that “foto” in English is “photo”.

EDIT on 12/13/19: Thanks to karnevilnine for showing me this video of Podesta making walnut sauce. Enjoy:

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