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For years, the idea that powerful, well-connected elites might be involved in organized child exploitation was treated like something only Q-kooks talked about. And anybody who brought it up was promptly mocked, sidelined, or lumped in with the most unserious corners of the internet. The message was simple: respectable people don’t do things like that, and anyone who says otherwise is a dangerous “conspiracy theorist.”

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The problem is, real cases keep getting in the way of that narrative.

What’s changed is that these stories don’t disappear anymore. The internet makes it a lot harder for the media and the power players involved to quietly move on and hope everybody forgets. Now, when these horrific cases surface, they stick, spread, and force attention in a way that didn’t exist ten or twenty years ago.

That doesn’t mean every claim floating around online was true, but it does mean the automatic reflex to dismiss uncomfortable allegations against elites has worn out its welcome.

That brings us to the most recent case that proves those “Q-kooks” were actually onto something.

Australian authorities announced the dismantling of a child exploitation network operating out of the Sydney area. This wasn’t framed as a lone offender or an isolated online incident. Police described it as an organized group operating internationally, using encrypted platforms, and trafficking some of the most disturbing material imaginable.

John Schindler, who writes under the name 20Committee on his Substack Top Secret Umbra, is a former intelligence officer. He’s been covering the Sydney case, and then some, and brings some very interesting insight to it, along with a sober take on Pizzagate. He’s not infallible, but he’s also not some internet fabulist. He’s coming at this from a long career inside the intelligence world, not conspiracy culture, and he has a way of helping readers rethink things they thought were settled.

Top Secret Umbra:

Last week brought news of a shocking series of arrests in Australia. New South Wales Police announced the break-up of a Sydney-area gang devoted to the most odious of crimes, the sexual exploitation of children. Four men, ranging in age from 26 to 46, were taken into custody and are being held without bail, given the terrible nature of their alleged misdeeds.

This pedophile gang employed encrypted online apps to circulate images of sexually exploited and abused children internationally. Their victims included babies. The 26-year-old, identified as the independent journalist (and Lady Gaga superfan) Landon Germanotta-Mills, is considered the ringleader by detectives, therefore is facing a raft of charges, including the possession and distribution of child abuse material and bestiality material. One of the men, 42-year-old Mark Sendecky, a swim coach, was arrested in 2021 for possessing some 1200 sexual images of boys, some as young as five. Sendecky told the court four years ago, pleading for mercy to dodge a long prison sentence, that he knew he’d “got a serious problem that I need to fix.” Which he clearly did not.

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When New South Wales Police announced these arrests, they went all out. They didn’t use vague or polite language. They publicly described the group as a Satanic international child sex abuse ring. All the terms our own media has swatted down for decades.

That’s why this very real and raw framing matters, because these are the exact claims that will usually get you mocked, dismissed, and called a “Q-kook.” The assumption is that anything involving occult symbolism or ritual abuse must be internet nonsense. After all, our esteemed elites are members of polite society, and anything to suggest otherwise can’t be taken seriously.

Schindler goes on:

The press release announcing the arrests depicted the pedophile gang as an “international Satanic child sex abuse material ring,” adding that Strike Force Constantine investigated them for the “online distribution of child sexual abuse involving ritualistic or Satanic themes.” Its chief detective told the media: “this international group were engaging in conversations and the sharing of material which depicted child abuse and the torture of children involving symbols and rituals linked to Satanism and the occult.”

The notion of a Satanic cabal of pedophiles harming children as part of occult rituals is ignored by most people, and nearly all mainstream journalists, as a low-information fantasy, something to be dismissed out of hand. There’s no easier way to get yourself uninvited to smart-set cocktail parties than to suggest that child sexual abuse linked to the occult is a real thing. Such lurid gangs can’t possibly exist, can they?

Alas, they can – and do. The arrests around Sydney are just the latest example of such horrors. Back in the 1980s, the so-called “Satanic Panic” discredited the notion of such terrible things existing, even though there remain real questions about some of those high-profile child abuse cases and what really happened, and nobody in the mainstream media wants to revisit any of those alleged horrors.

Whenever such salacious stories emerge, most journalists view their job as debunking rather than reporting. Why investigate what can’t possibly be true? To cite a somewhat recent example, almost a decade ago the “Pizzagate” scandal erupted online, amid claims that powerful people in Washington, DC, including top Democrats, were sexually abusing kids. Some of those said to be involved were close to the 2016 Democrat presidential nominee, Hillary Clinton. Online postings, usually anonymous, accused powerful people of very grave crimes, without anything resembling evidence. Nevertheless, Pizzagate enjoyed its moment and was pushed online by the far-Right, which led to its automatic debunking by the elite media as a laughable fabrication, indeed the essence of “fake news.”

When a story sounds strange, uncomfortable, or embarrassing for the right people, the easiest move is to laugh it off and tie it to the weirdest corners of the internet and declare the whole subject radioactive. Once that happens, no one has to do the actual work of investigating, which is the media’s job, by the way.

Pizzagate became the perfect tool for this. Not because it was carefully examined and disproven piece by piece, but because it was absurd enough on its surface to be used as a punchline for the entire topic. From that point on, any discussion of elite sex rings could be waved away as unserious.

But what got lost in the chuckle fest is that parts of the story were never examined at all, and had they been, our esteemed media might’ve found some disturbing truths.

Schindler continues:

However, at the heart of the Pizzagate saga lurked disturbing claims which possessed at least a degree of plausibility. It turns out that some of those Democrat-linked influencers really did post known pedophile symbols on social media, clannish criminal argot that was well known to the FBI. Some folks close to the Clintons used creepy code language in their emails that could be viewed as referring to sexually abusing minors. There was more than a whiff of the occult in some of the leaked emails. Did any of the players outed in Pizzagate sexually abuse minors? I have no idea. What I do know is that nobody of significance in the mainstream media ever bothered to investigate whether any part of said “conspiracy theory” might be true. Indeed, the one journalist who bothered to ask, Ben Swann, trashed his media career when he ran a segment at the CBS TV affiliate in Atlanta which considered Pizzagate a topic worthy of discussion.

You can read the entire article here.

And that brings us to another place where this behavior has long been whispered about, joked about, and not-so-quietly acknowledged: Hollywood.

Over the past day, Nicki Minaj has been on X calling out who she deems are Hollywood perverts, namely Jay Z.

Nicki is right. You look at these images and wonder how on earth Jay Z hasn’t been “canceled” for this type of abuse.

Nicki Minaj:

Are y’all understanding that these ppl have been sacrificing children as a way of gaining & maintaining power? If you ever vote DemonCrat again, you’re just as soulless as they are & will perish. Maybe it’s time for me to do some story times — since I was trying to not say what I know — yet they continue to attempt bullying.

Also, I won’t be releasing an album until my contract is renegotiated & until I tell you about all the sabotage this RICO is finding out about Billboard.

The things dismissed most aggressively as “conspiracies” tend to be the things no one in power wants examined too closely. The ridicule always comes first, followed by silence, followed by years of pretending the questions were never worth asking.

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What this should teach us is simple. Mockery is a tell. When the left and their media buddies rush to laugh something off instead of looking into it, that’s usually a sign the subject is hitting way too close to home.

That doesn’t mean believing every single story that comes down the pike. It means don’t shut up just because the wrong people are uncomfortable.

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