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<\/a>NEW YORK, NY – NOVEMBER 09: Campaign chairman John Podesta speaks on stage at Democratic presidential nominee former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s election night event at the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center November 9, 2016 in New York City. Clinton is running against Republican nominee, Donald J. Trump to be the 45th President of the United States. (Photo by Drew Angerer\/Getty Images)<\/p><\/div><\/p>\n
Alan Ewart
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For almost a full month Pizzagate has been discussed across the internet by a steadily growing group of people, and the chances are, if you are reading this article, you are already aware of the background to Pizzagate. For those who have not followed the Pizzagate story I will sum it up in a few lines. A citizens investigation into Pizzagate began after WikiLeaks, founded by Julian Assange, published the Pizzagate emails. A series of emails between Hillary Clinton\u2019s campaign manager, John Podesta, and James Alefantis led people to think that something very odd was afoot.<\/p>\n
Alefantis owns a Washington pizza joint called Comet Ping Pong which sits right at the center of the Pizzagate scandal. Internet investigators discovered pictures on Alefantis\u2019 Instagram account that were deeply disturbing. For example there were photographs of Alefantis holding a small girl, he had added the hashtag #ChickenLover to the post. In pedophile slang a chicken lover is someone who has a taste for very young boys. Alefantis also shared a picture showing a young girl who had her arms taped to a table.<\/p>\n
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Pizzagate links Alefantis to John Podesta and the Podesta emails were very odd indeed. Podesta and his brother Tony Podesta were invited to a \u201cSpirit Cooking\u201d dinner by artist Marina Abramovic. Spirit cooking is described as a satanic ritual and this has led investigators to believe that Pizzagate may allude to ritualized sexual abuse of children for satanic purposes.<\/p>\n
Alefantis is also linked to Podesta through David Brock. Alefantis and Brock were once a couple. Brock set up Media Matters For America (MMFA) a pro-Clinton news site which was given office space<\/a> by John Podesta during the recent presidential campaign. Investigators have also turned up links between these people and convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein, as well as other powerful people.<\/p>\n Is Pizzagate real? Not if you believe the mainstream media. Earlier today the BBC<\/em> became the latest major outlet to denigrate the Pizzagate story. They dismiss Pizzagate<\/a> as \u201cthe fake story that shows how conspiracy theories spread.\u201d The BBC<\/em> quote James Alefantis who maintains his total innocence and claims Pizzagate \u201cignores basic truths.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cThey ignore basic truths. For instance, the conspiracy supposedly is run out of the restaurant\u2019s basement. We don\u2019t even have a basement.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cSometimes an innocent picture of a child in a basket is just an innocent picture of a child in a basket and not proof of a child sex trafficking ring.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Oddly it seems that the BBC<\/em> may have caught Alefantis in a lie when he denies that his restaurant has a basement. Just last year Alefantis told Metro Weekly<\/em> that Comet Ping Pong had a basement<\/a> in which he stored his own produce.<\/p>\n \u201cWell, we make everything from scratch. Other restaurants, even good restaurants, will, like, not roast their own peppers.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cLike our sauce, we harvest a whole crop of organic tomatoes, 10 tons of tomatoes every year. Can them all, store them in the basement, have like a harvest party when it gets loaded in.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Of course Mr Alefantis may well be confused, or have been misquoted, but the inconsistencies don\u2019t help his case, especially as he shared Instagram photographs of construction work, allegedly in his basement.<\/p>\n http:\/\/twitter.com\/d0nburke\/status\/804612758503161856?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw<\/p>\n Given the BBC\u2019s<\/em> history with pedophile presenters it is perhaps strange that the corporation is so quick to dismiss Pizzagate as \u201cfake news.\u201d<\/p>\n Just this year Dame Janet Smith\u2019s report into the Jimmy Savile pedophile case concluded that BBC<\/em> bosses must have been aware of Savile\u2019s activities when he sexual assaulted numerous young girls, some as young as 10-years-old, whilst he was presenting the BBC\u2019s Top Of The Pops<\/em> program.<\/p>\n Another BBC<\/em> employee, TV presenter Stuart Hall, was also found guilty of sexually molesting children. Again the BBC<\/em> had to report that that its bosses were aware<\/a> of Hall\u2019s activities and did nothing to stop it.<\/p>\n http:\/\/twitter.com\/TheHomeboyChris\/status\/804563876792500224?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw<\/p>\n The Independent<\/em> also reported earlier this year<\/a> that another BBC<\/em> DJ, Dave Lee Travis, had been found guilty of sexually abusing young people. Again, earlier this year, the Daily Mirror<\/em> reported that the BBC<\/em> had to sack another DJ, Tony Blackburn, after he was accused of a sexual assault<\/a> on a Top Of The Pops<\/em> dancer. Those allegations dated back to 1971 but the Express<\/em> reported last month that Blackburn had been cleared<\/a> of those charges and will return to work at the BBC<\/em> a year after being sacked. Mr Blackburn\u2019s alleged victim committed suicide weeks after the alleged incident.<\/p>\n Of course none of this proves that Alefantis, Podesta, or anyone else caught up in Pizzagate, is actually a pedophile. What it does show however is a set of very strange circumstances that people want answers to. Cries that Alefantis and Podesta are caught up in a crazy alt-right conspiracy theory and are totally innocent simply won\u2019t wash with people who think that Pizzagate stinks worse than last weeks fish.<\/p>\n [Featured image by Drew Angerer\/Getty Images]<\/p>\nSo Is Pizzagate Real?<\/h2>\n
Pedophiles At The BBC<\/h2>\n