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- Johann Adam Weishaupt ([ˈjoːhan ˈaːdam ˈvaɪ̯s.haʊ̯pt] 6 February 1748 – 18 November 1830) was a German philosopher, professor, and founder of the Order of the Illuminati, a secret society.Adam Weishaupt was born on 6 February 1748 in Ingolstadt^[1][5] in the Electorate of Bavaria. Weishaupt's father Johann Georg Weishaupt(1717–1753) died^[5] when Adam was five years old. After his father's death he came under the tutelage of his godfather Johann Adam Freiherr von Ickstatt^[6] who, like his father, was a professor of law at the University of Ingolstadt.^[7] Ickstatt was a proponent of the philosophy of Christian Wolff and of the Enlightenment,^[8] and he influenced the young Weishaupt with his rationalism. Weishaupt began his formal education at age seven^[1] at a Jesuit school. He later enrolled at the University of Ingolstadt and graduated in 1768^[9] at age 20 with a doctorate of law.^[10] In 1772^[11] he became a professor of law. The following year he married Afra Sausenhofer of Eichstätt. After Pope Clement XIV’s suppression of the Society of Jesus in 1773, Weishaupt became a professor of canon law,^[13] a position that was held exclusively by the Jesuits until that time. In 1775 Weishaupt was introduced^[14] to the empirical philosophy of Johann Georg Heinrich Feder^[15] of the University of Göttingen. Both Feder and Weishaupt would later become opponents of Kantian idealism.On 1 May 1776 Johann Adam Weishaupt founded the "Illuminati" in the Electorate of Bavaria. He adopted the name of "Brother Spartacus" within the order. Even encyclopedia references vary on the goal of the order, such as New Advent saying the Order was not egalitarian or democratic internally, but sought to promote the doctrines of equality and freedom throughout society;^[18] while others like Collier's have said the aim was to combat religion and foster rationalism in its place. The actual character of the society was an elaborate network of spies and counter-spies. Each isolated cell of initiates reported to a superior, whom they did not know: a party structure that was effectively adopted by some later groups.
- http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3704890/Are-Theresa-Angela-Merkel-ILLUMINATI-Conspiracy-theorists-convinced-leaders-secretive-sect-similar-hand-gestures.html

Qanon
- hkej 6aug18 shum article

• 「Q」全稱「匿名Q」(Q Anonymous)，即「QAnon」，使用英文字母「Q」是因為美國能源部的「Q級別」授權人士，才能接觸最機密資訊；此外在流行文化，電影《新鐵金剛》系列加入的新角色、和「M」齊名的電腦奇才，也是「Q」。作為一個虛擬網絡，QAnon出現在社交媒體還不到一年，源自美國討論區4chan、8chan（可看作香港的高登、連登），發起者聲稱就是能接觸美國能源部「Q級別」的神秘人，暗示具有特殊身份（也可以是有特殊技術的黑客），並通過這樣的角色設定，不斷散播陰謀論。QAnon的陰謀論並非原創，而是把美國長期存在的耳語運動、捕風捉影具體形象化，主軸是對一切建制、主流的強烈不信任，世界觀極其犬儒，把主流英雄演繹為大壞蛋，主流社會的爭議人物則被捧成小圈子英雄。在QAnon的世界觀，真正控制美國的是一個「Deep State」，這些精英操控權力核心，無論誰當選總統，都不能超越他們的控制；現任總統特朗普正是用自己方法對抗「Deep State」的超級英雄，所以必須全力支持。不得不承認，陰謀論也不是全然天馬行空。五十年代的美國總統艾森豪威爾曾公開警告，要正視「鐵三角」集團：軍事－工業－行政的既得利益者；而在非主流媒體，骷顱會、主業會、共濟會、聖殿武士一類，都是「解釋」任何國內外問題的百搭答案。QAnon一類陰謀論者和從前「losers」不同的另一點是，他們乾脆放棄主流認同，也不希望在主流社會向上爬，因為心底裏知道沒有能力在「真・社會」立足，卻發現只要集中壯大自己圍著的「爐」，「優化」小圈子，也可以加強身份認同，乃至有具體得著：成為陰謀論KOL可以衍生具體收入，乃至創業成為「新傳媒大亨」、出產紀念品，有了支持者可以和主流政客討價還價，還能與暗黑勢力（黑客）結盟加強震懾力…… 一切一切，已經是另一個生態圈。我們應如何自處？二十年前的我，也許會給予很主流的精英答案：不必理會losers，只要努力發奮向上，以憐憫之心俯瞰蒼生就足夠云云。但了解到新時代法則，我們的態度必須與時並進：一方面，固然要保持主流社會的身份，engage傳統精英，但與此同時，也必須加入不同「hooks」，引誘losers去通過回應，去推高演算式賦予我們的影響力，這就是上一代始終不能掌握的「否定的肯定」。由於losers是結構性存在，我們計算公式時，不要有「教化萬民」的學究情懷，也不應直接得到他們加持，如何拿捏分寸，很考功夫。與此同時，我們還要建構一個平行時空的「losers」分身，去配合「贏家」身份陰影互補。這道公式，正是特朗普目前在做的事，明白的，自然明白。
• Economist 12jun2021 "conspiracy as a second language" qanon's conspiracy theories are thriving among hispanics

Zionist occupation government, Zionist occupational government, or Zionist-occupied government (abbreviated as ZOG) is an antisemitic conspiracy theory that claims "Jewish agents" secretly control the governments of Western states. Other variants such as "Jewish occupational government" are sometimes used. The expression is used by white supremacist, far-right, nativist, or antisemitic groups in the United States and Europe, as well as by ultra-nationalists such as Pamyat in Russia, and various far-right groups including the Freemen, Identity Christians, Odinists, and Ku Klux Klan.The word Zionist in "Zionist Occupation Government" should not be confused with the ideology of Zionism, the movement for support of a Jewish state in the Land of Israel. Because the conspiracy theorists chiefly name countries outside that area, the usage of Zionist in this context is misleading, and it is intended to portray Jews as conspirators who aim to control the world,^[5] as in the forged Protocols of the Elders of Zion.

•  The Protocols of the Elders of Zion (Russian: Протоколы сионских мудрецов) or The Protocols of the Meetings of the Learned Elders of Zion is an antisemitic fabricated text purporting to describe a Jewish plan for global domination. The forgery was first published in Russia in 1903, translated into multiple languages, and disseminated internationally in the early part of the 20th century. According to the claims made by some of its publishers, the Protocols are the minutes of a late 19th-century meeting where Jewish leaders discussed their goal of global Jewish hegemony by subverting the morals of Gentiles, and by controlling the press and the world's economies. Henry Ford funded printing of 500,000 copies that were distributed throughout the United States in the 1920s. The Nazis sometimes used the Protocols as propaganda against Jews; it was assigned by some German teachers, as if factual, to be read by German schoolchildren after the Nazis came to power in 1933, despite having been exposed as fraudulent by The Times of London in 1921. It is still widely available today in numerous languages, in print and on the Internet, and continues to be presented by some proponents as a genuine document.

• [historical dictionary of american propaganda] drawing on the experience of their czarist predecessors and their success with the classic forgery, protocols of the learned elders of zion, the soviet kgb (known earlier as the cheka, ogpu, and gpu) continued to use forgeries.  Six months after seizing power, the bolsheviks were concerned about continuing accusations labeling lenin and his comrades as german agents.  The bolsheviks denied that they were in the pay of the germans.  On 15sep1918, the US govt released to the press a collection of documents that purposed to show the bolsheviks had received money both before and after the russian revolution.  In Oct1918, the committee on public information (CPI) released a pamphlet to the press entitled the german bolshevik conspiracy, which contained translations of 68 documents and reproductions of many of them.  The documents had been obtained in russia by edgar sisson, the CPI representative, and came to known as the sisson documents.

• In 1996, the Aryan Nations posted on its website an "Aryan Declaration of Independence", stating that "the history of the present Zionist Occupied Government of the United States of America is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations ... [all] having a direct object—the establishment of an absolute tyranny over these states." Claiming that "the eradication of the White race and its culture" is "one of its foremost purposes", the "ZOG" is accused of relinquishing "powers of government to private corporations, White traitors and ruling class Jewish families".
• zion 

• צ in modern Hebrew is pronounced ts as in cats or pizza. Historically it was probably closer to the Arabic letter Saad (ص) which is an emphatic S. Zion is spelled ציון and pronounced /tsiːˈon/ https://www.quora.com/In-English-Zion-is-written-with-a-z-in-Portuguese-Si%C3%A3o-is-written-with-an-s-Which-is-more-loyal-to-Hebrew-language

Our Lady of Fátima (Portuguese: Nossa Senhora de Fátima, formally known as Our Lady of the Holy Rosary of Fátima, European Portuguese: [ˈnɔsɐ sɨˈɲoɾɐ dɨ ˈfatimɐ] Brazilian Portuguese: [ˈnɔsɐ siˈɲɔɾɐ dʒi ˈfatʃimɐ]), is a Catholic title of the Blessed Virgin Mary based on the famed Marian apparitions reported in 1917 by three shepherd children at the Cova da Iria, in Fátima, Portugal. The three children were Lúcia dos Santos and her cousins Francisco and Jacinta Marto. Bishop José Alves Correia da Silva declared the events worthy of belief on 13 October 1930.^[1] On 13 May 1946, Pope Pius XII granted a canonical coronation to the venerated image enshrined at the Chapel of the Apparitions of Fátima via his apostolic legate, Cardinal Benedetto Aloisi Masella. On 11 November 1954, the same Pontiff raised the Sanctuary of Fátima to the status of Minor Basilica by his Papal brief Lucer Superna. The published memoirs of Lúcia dos Santos in the 1930s revealed two secrets that she claimed came from the Virgin while the third secret was to be revealed by the Catholic Church in 1960. The controversial events at Fátima gained fame due partly to elements of the secrets, prophecy and eschatological revelations allegedly related to the Second World War and possibly more global wars in the future, particularly the Virgin's alleged request for the Consecration of Russia to the Immaculate Heart of Mary.

- The Consecration of Russia to the Immaculate Heart of Mary by a specific act of a Pope along with all the other Catholic bishops of the world was allegedly ordered in an apparition by Our Lady of Fátima in 1917. The Carmelite nun Sister Lúcia, one of the three visionaries of the apparitions, stated that at different times the Virgin Mary had given her messages that emphasized praying the Rosary, and that she had made a number of prophecies and promises, one of these being that the consecration of Russia would usher in a period of world peace. Sister Lúcia declared in writing during the 1980s that the consecration performed by Pope John Paul II in St. Peter's Square, in the Vatican City, on March 25, 1984 had been properly accomplished and was accepted in Heaven. In addition to the Consecration of Russia, Pope Pius XII (1942), Pope John Paul II (1984), Pope Benedict XVI (2010) and Pope Francis (2013) have consecrated the world to the Immaculate Heart, with Pius XII also specifically consecrating "the peoples of Russia" in 1952, sometimes worded as "acts of entrustment".

- note that her statue often showed her standing on a cloud; there was one in st teresa church, kowloon