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- Saturday.

Wildfires are decimating Hawaii.

The Barbenheimer phenomenon is in full force.

And over in an unassuming corner of cyberspace, someone creates a YouTube channel with an urgent call to action.

- This matter is of utmost significance for the survival of every living being on this planet.

- It's called the Earth Save Science Collaborative, and it's hosted by a man named Allen Egon Cholakian.

On his channel, we can find over 180 videos of this man warning people about global issues, like climate change, nano plastics, and disinformation campaigns.

Admittedly, while these are all issues that are plaguing the world, the way Egon is framing them is a bit odd.

In every single one of his videos, he sits in front of a camera dressed in a suit, goes on about his various accolades, and spends anywhere from around 30 minutes to three and a half hours, fear mongering about things like geophysical anomalies inside the Earth's core, that, upon doing further research, appear to have little to no basis in scientific fact.

According to Egon, if humanity doesn't unite to solve this global threat, then the end of the world is quite literally just a few years away.

On his website, earthsavesciencecollaborative.com, we can find a section that gives us insight into his cause.

And at a cursory glance, we can notice a plethora of colorful phrasing formatted in bold for dramatic effect.

Egon claims that there are alarming anomalies.

There's a chaotic acceleration of the planet's rotation, that humanity only has a few years to avert an impending catastrophe.

And upon taking a look at their scientific papers, he makes bizarre claims about an external and unknown cosmic force that's causing all of this.

Now, to me, this entire movement comes off as conspiratorial.

Egon, in my opinion, consistently instills urgency in the reader, distorts science-backed evidence to fit his narrative, and given that he appears to be someone so ingrained in academia and the government is feigning credibility while banking on the hope that you won't ever verify his claims.

But, okay, okay, so we found a channel on YouTube with a random old guy that uploads crazy videos about an impending calamity that could happen in as little as years.

Why exactly are we giving this guy attention?

And what truly is the big deal here?

Well, while in any other circumstance, I would've moved on before this video even started, there was one simple thing that kept me here, his hands.

Online, people have noticed that in certain videos, Egon doesn't move.

And while it's such a simple, silly observation, it's effectively morphed what was supposed to be just a random internet anomaly, into one of the strangest and most perplexing internet rabbit holes that I have ever seen.

- We'll return after these messages.

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"Government AI-generated fake YouTubers are now a thing, "and they're super scary." "Hi, guys.

"Recently, I found a video on YouTube "about Destiny doing some research and some weird things, "and one thing caught my attention.

"This dude named Egon Cholakian is supposed to be a person "with a lot of influence in the US government, "but he never existed, "and everything about him is just odd or weird in some way.

"He has a YouTube channel "in which he only speaks directly to a camera, speaks a bunch of nonsense about geopolitical stuff, "and does not move.

"I'm being serious, "this guy sits for three hours without moving his hands." All across the internet, we can find him.

On LinkedIn, Facebook, research archives, and photographed with countless major public figures in governments and academia.

Egon, according to his Facebook and LinkedIn profiles, carries a highly decorated resume, having studied at numerous prestigious institutions like Harvard, MIT, and Stanford.

And while this looks impressive, he notes that he somehow attended these universities at the exact same time.

Now, as we know, anyone can put anything on a LinkedIn profile.

And given that his accolades are so incredibly out there, it's possible that some, if not all of his social media claims are bogus.

On top of this, if we perform a search for Egon Cholakian on the internet, we'll find that hardly any of his actual research comes up.

For someone so ingrained, so well networked, you would think that this man's work would be everywhere.

But aside from his own profiles, paid articles he himself submitted to the press, and videos from his YouTube channel, little, if anything, is out there.

It seems that all we have are a myriad of images depicting Egon with public figures.

However, upon looking at them closer, even these seem strangely uncanny.

He can be seen photographed with former CIA director, Stansfield Turner, but it looks, hmm.

This one's with a Harvard colleague named Robert Merton, but what's going on here?

Okay, okay, what about this one?

This one looks normal, but no.

Hold on. Egon Cholakian has fabricated a massive network of images, depicting endless aspects of his life that never happened.

This is why he's garnered such an infamous reputation.

The bizarre, nonsensical LinkedIn timeline, the unnatural ability to sit still for over three hours at a time while professing absolute nonsense in the photos.

His entire online presence rests in the uncanny valley.

And given how proficient AI has become at spoofing entire personalities online, this left many across the internet wondering if this could be what's going on here.

Is Egon Cholakian, proficient researcher, world-renowned scientist, and highly decorated alumnus of numerous prestigious universities, even a real person, or is this one of the most involved examples of the Dead Internet Theory that we've ever seen?

On Egon's channel, exists a documentary called "The Impact." And in it, we can hear an AI George Washington calling the audience to action against a so-called foreign enemy.

It goes on to fearmonger about impending civil war, so-called anti-cult organizations that oppose him.

And it puts forth various potential scenarios about the end of the world.

It is, for all intents and purposes, complete AI slop.

And weirdest of all, it goes on for eight entire hours.

If you click around this video, you will learn nothing.

It's just a bunch of random propaganda wrapped up in vernacular that simply goes on in circles.

Yet even so, surprisingly, this video has found an audience.

"Thank you to all that stood up "to protect our constitution and our rights." "Yeah, by the way, it's so nice to see actual journalism for a change." "You all didn't have the complete story.

"The rabbit hole goes much deeper." This, this is eight hours long.

And you're saying we don't have the complete story?

What? So, I'll just go forth and say it.

I refuse to believe that anyone on planet Earth has had the willpower to sit down and attentively watch all eight hours of this, much less considerate journalism.

As we can see, these comments all come from those with randomized usernames, empty YouTube channels, not a single profile picture.

It appears that the only ones here are bots, a revelation that does not help Egon's case.

- We're going a little bit deeper, okay?

In chat, somebody brings up a YouTube video of this guy.

- Hello, my name is Egon Cholakian.

I am an intelligence educator.

I prepare intelligence personnel for clandestine service.

The focus of my career has been centered on the intelligence component of nationals.

- As this mystery made its way across the internet, thanks to a live stream by Destiny, it led many to scour for traces of him online.

It quickly became clear that nearly all media involving Egon Cholakian involved him speaking in front of a camera.

His entire image was incredibly manicured, overproduced, and for a while, it seemed like there was nothing out there that can truly humanize him.

But right when people were keen on throwing this entire mystery away as just another case of AI-generated nonsense, a random pandemic era video depicting a Zoom call of all things found its way into the spotlight.

- Hey there, Egon.

- How you doing?

- Well, how about yourself?

- Just peachy.

I figured I'd step in early and just hang my hat.

- Awesome, fabulous.

We have some people that are just kind of hanging out here.

The judges are deliberating.

The pitches took a little bit less time than we had planned for since we had- - And so, there we have it.

Egon is just peachy, and he's a real person.

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Turns out that this guy pulled a Stephen McDaniel, and somehow sat still for three and a half hours, which is weird, but okay.

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So that's all this is then, right?

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A conspiracy theory YouTube channel run by an old man doctoring photos of himself and over-embellishing his achievements to make him seem more legitimate than he is.

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Someone who admittedly seems pretty nice according to this call.

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And someone who found himself ensnared in an online conspiracy about his very existence, completely out of nowhere.

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You know, the reason I do what I do is because of mysteries just like this.

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Creepy internet anomalies that we can investigate and solve with a logical conclusion.

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Egon has fabricated an entire online persona, and admittedly, it was an engaging investigation.

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So thank you guys so much for watching, watch it, watch it, watch it- Something is wrong.

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All throughout Egon's comment section, we'll notice the same commenter spread out across his uploads.

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And upon taking a look.

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Interesting.

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What's going on with this?

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- Representatives of The Creative Society delivered a substantive presentation addressing one of the most pressing issues that has long been the subject of my research and concern for many years.

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- Weird, but okay.

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What the hell's The Creative Society?

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There it is again.

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Okay, I'm not trying to be tinfoil hatty, but there are way too many oddities taking place with this channel.

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Every single comment supports Egon.

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They seem to heavily lean Russian.

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They all connect in some way to something called Creative Society.

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And upon closer inspection, why is Egon on their website?

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From what it seems, Egon Cholakian isn't just a one-man show.

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It's a group.

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So, who in the world are these people?

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- Here's a typical morning routine as someone who owns 11 pets.

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- Okay, I've been making this brown sugar mocha dalgona lately and Nescafe is helping me.

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- November 7th, 155 miles per hour winds just wiped out 80% of the city.

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- It is what all people want.

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We've been conducting a lot of surveys for several years.

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- No day without informing about Creative Society.

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- It is not some saintly call.

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The Creative Society is all of humanity.

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And when I say all, it means all.

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- Making its way onto every social media algorithm across the vast ocean of the internet is an idea.

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An idea that on the surface sounds idyllic.

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The sort of thing you'd hear in, let's say, a dream.

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The long awaited arrival of a future we were promised, yet never came, and one that'll radically transform the lives of everyone that chooses to follow it.

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It goes by The Creative Society, and it's spilling out onto TikTok, Instagram, Facebook, really anywhere with an audience online.

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Take a look around, and chances are you'll find it.

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Front and center on their website, we're greeted with oddly familiar dialogue.

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"Today, as the global community faces an increasing threat "of natural disasters, "the pursuit of security and sustainability "has become fundamental for everyone.

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"This situation requires "immediate and decisive collective action." Just like the Earth Save Science Collaborative, we're confronted with the conveyor belts of ideas, videos, and scientific reports that scaremonger about many of the same problems that Egon told us about earlier.

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Nano plastics, catastrophic earthquakes, an increase in turbulence in the Earth's atmosphere.

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It honestly sounds like a complete rehash of the exact same information.

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So much so that when I was digging through this, I found myself wondering why they even bothered creating another site at all.

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Upon heading over to their About page, we're given somewhat of an answer, as the site goes from a retread of familiar information, to something completely out of left field.

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According to the wall of information before us, The Creative Society is more than just a bunch of scientists peddling dramatic theories about climate change.

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It's an international project, uniting volunteers from over 180 countries, a.k.a. most of the world, with the goal of transitioning in a legal and peaceful way within the shortest possible time to a new creative format of society worldwide.

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Further down, they go on to reveal that their aims include eradicating climate change, which they believe is caused not by humans, but cosmic forces, as well as miraculously putting an end to all wars.

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They guarantee that under this new system, all adults will receive a universal basic income every month and an extra $100,000 upon the birth of their first child.

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Free healthcare will exist across the world.

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Travel without restrictions.

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The eradication of all debts, mortgages, and taxes.

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And all of this can be achieved if we simply follow their lead and unite under The Creative Society.

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Now, this clearly all sounds way too good to be true.

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Much like how Egon came off, it feels completely outlandish and conspiratorial.

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To be honest, it feels like The Creative Society has more in common with something like a religion or perhaps even.

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- My neighbor in my house, like just if I'm facing out the guy to my left, he is a cult leader.

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He has this cult called The Creative Society.

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- Shut up. - I swear to God. - Whoa, what did they do?

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- They're like a doomsday, kind of like a, they're a doomsday cult, but they're like eco-doomsday.

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So they think that we're in the end of humanity and the only way to bring us out of it is like through their method of creativity.

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- The concept of a new world order, a list of eight pillars that their values are based around, the weird Illuminati-looking logo.

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All of this is packaged exactly like a cult.

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And although it seems obvious in hindsight, if you had merely stumbled upon it when scrolling online, you likely wouldn't even second-guess it.

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This entire organization looks authentic.

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It pulls you in with its lengthy, seemingly well-researched reports and videos on important topics, led by experts who look legitimate.

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And it promises of a perfect world where you can be free if only you spread their message.

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And somehow, it's actually working.

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Plastered all over their website are image, after image, after image, depicting everyday people posing with Creative Society paraphernalia.

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From what it seems, this group is utilizing their appearance to wiggle their way into various climate expos, US-based business conventions, and even medical offices.

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This, combined with their immensely aggressive social media presence, in which their videos are spammed on nearly every platform you can think of, gives insight into why so many around the world have found their cause.

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Like with everything else, they carry the appearance of doing a net good for the world.

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However, as I sit here writing this, I am honestly more confused than ever because quite literally none of this makes any sense.

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So, so far, we've seen two interconnected climate activist groups that are very clearly peddling more than they've let on.

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Doing any sort of surface level research into any of them reveals that their claims are extraordinary.

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They've distort science, fabricate their credibility, and even on The Creative Society's website, they go on about a utopian new world order.

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Either none of these people are doing any research into the organizations they're so outwardly supporting, or they are, and I'm just the crazy one that doesn't see their vision.

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To me, the entire existence and support of The Creative Society is one massive paradox.

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People should be writing them off.

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So, what really is going on here?

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Upon scouring the net for any information about this group, I happened upon an article written in 2022 on bbc.com, penned by two climate disinformation reporters named Marco Silva and Merlyn Thomas.

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They dive into, of all things, how The Creative Society is fraudulent.

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They explain how several high profile scientists were, at one point, invited to speak at their online events, mistakenly believing that they'd be educating the public, only to have their words entirely twisted.

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They claim that video footage was edited to remove any mention of the human causes of climate change, instead framing them as if they agreed with The Creative Society's outlandish views.

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Since then, these fraudulent videos have been blasted across their socials, fueling propaganda, and continuing to attract more and more of the general populace to their cause.

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It's clear that this toxic combination of distortion and dissemination is what's quietly elevating them to prominence.

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But even still, there's a question brimming in the back of my mind.

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Who exactly is behind all of this?

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On their website, The Creative Society simply states that there's no one person funding or directing them.

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It's all just this undulating network of volunteers banding together to change humanity.

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However, it's when we scour the BBC article, one will find that that isn't exactly true.

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Within it, they name drop a man, someone who's been affiliated with The Creative Society and shows up throughout the bulk of their online presence.

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In fact, it's a man who you've already seen several times throughout this video, hosting their conferences, introducing their YouTube videos, speaking on their network of over 200 channels across thousands of videos.

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He doesn't exactly hide himself, but he remains just distant and unfamiliar enough to the average person to not arouse suspicion, and to coordinate things from behind the scenes.

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His name is Igor Mikhailovich Danilov, formerly a chiropractor, now the leader of The Creative Society, and someone who's also listed as the leading figure in a Ukrainian spiritual movement, which, hold on.

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AllatRa is known for promoting pseudoscience and wild conspiracy theories involving aliens and secretive, powerful elites that sacrifice children.

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Okay, that is an absolutely insane statement, but that name, we've seen that name before.

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Right under our nose, a group has been operating.

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And upon digging into them further and cross-referencing them with the Earth Save Science Collaborative and The Creative Society, it's become clear to me that everything we've covered up to this point was nothing but a front, a funnel to the real core of this rabbit hole, AllatRa.

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Hidden within every climate report and embedded in every viral video are endless references to something called AllatRa, an organization which, as it turns out, has much deeper and more expansive roots than anything we've seen so far.

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They're the ones behind The Creative Society project.

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The ones paying Egon Cholakian to lobby in the US government.

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The true puppet master behind this sprawling network of interconnected accounts that are quietly taking over the internet.

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While up to this point, we've seen the prior groups spreading misinformation and outlandish ideas.

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What AllatRa truly believes at their core is so far out there, so off the rails that I struggle to comprehend how they've ever been taken seriously.

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According to the videos on their vast network of YouTube channels, they sincerely believe that humans are capable of telepathy, and have conducted several experiments using a walk-in pyramid, where volunteers transmit symbols with their minds in front of a live audience.

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They have videos showing members taking photographs of their thoughts, infographics about the soul coming from space, even podcast appearances where they talk about aliens living among us.

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- Considering the level of their development, the Apexians had already colonized millions and millions of planets by that time.

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And naturally, they had developed methods of working with humanoids like us, right?

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So they took the simplest option, they elevated themselves to the rank of God.

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- Naturally, on their website, they mentioned none of this.

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Instead describing themselves with a familiar spiel we know all too well by now.

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Volunteers across 180 countries, nano plastics, the usual.

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It's when we take a look at their About page though, when we're able to spot something strange.

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Taking up nearly half of this page is a massive section about a supposed defamation campaign enacted upon AllatRa by a group called the Russian Association of Centers for Religious Insect Studies, or RACIRS for short.

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AllatRa claims that this group sought to tarnish its image by accusing them of believing in ideologies laid out in so-called fiction books that they once published.

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Furthermore, they go on to claim that they are absolutely not an apocalyptic cult, and that all rhetoric supporting this is intentionally trying to discredit them.

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You know, it's funny they say that because we kind of already had an idea.

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If the alien beliefs in weird telepathic experiments weren't enough to give it away, then them outright claiming that they're not a cult, guys, they are not a cult, is a bit of a dead giveaway.

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But, I digress.

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With this in mind, I did some digging into AllatRa itself, and stumbled upon a trove of information about their early years.

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I know I sound like a broken record when I say this, but even with everything we've seen them peddle so far, things still get stranger.

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In their early years, AllatRa was born as nothing more than a publishing house, releasing novels penned by an author named Anastasia Novykh.

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These books are highly spiritual, and feature a being named Rigden Djappo, who's a sort of prophet for AllatRa.

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Supposedly, he's been reincarnated.

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He can teleports, read minds, and displays numerous other superhuman abilities.

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Exactly the kind that they're trying to replicate in the pyramid videos.

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In essence, he's their version of Jesus, and some of the books even read like religious texts containing conversations between Djappo and Novykh, where he relays the word of their God, a disembodied voice named Allat to the reader.

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The most interesting part about Djappo though, has nothing to do with his supernatural behavior, but rather, his job.

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In their very first book, dating way back to 2003, he's introduced in his earthly form as a martial arts teacher in it.

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Well, would you look at that?

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A chiropractor.

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His students call him Sensei, but on more than one occasion, he is directly referred to by the name, Igor Mikhailovich.

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While AllatRa may have passed these books off as mere works of fiction, the inclusion of Igor Danilov is very real.

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This man to this day is convincing thousands to follow him.

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He professes the ideas baked into these novels in his troves of YouTube videos and on every AllatRa website.

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And he convinces humans that they're capable of doing things that are physically impossible.

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At this point, we've transcended the realm of pseudoscience and societal manipulation because this man, Igor Danilov, is trying to be a prophet.

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A warped, twisted, and disturbed prophet, leveraging his power behind the scenes to not only control people, but to enact some of the most disgusting acts imaginable.

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- The video you're currently watching is an interview between a Russian journalist named Alena Namlieva and one of Igor Danilov's former so-called heavenly birds.

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In fear of retaliation, her identity has been concealed.

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However, the information she provides gives us an eerie look into his other ventures.

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In this interview, the woman explains that Igor, joined by other cult members, would regularly partake in group intercourse with upwards of 13 women at a time.

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These women, as far as she knew, ranged anywhere from 20 to 40 years in age, and these acts were supposedly meant to cleanse their spirit.

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Igor Danilov, being the group's prophet, would utilize his power to coerce them into participating.

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And if they refused, resisted, or told anyone about what was happening behind closed doors, then he would convince them that their soul is all but damned to hell.

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"You're either with us and remain silent, "or are against us and are siding with Satan," he would claim, an unthinkable form of psychological manipulation that has kept women silent, obedient, and entangled in Danilov's web for years.

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As details about Danilov's actions trickled out over the years, investigations into AllatRa began to ramp up.

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In 2023, the Ukrainian Orthodox Church allegedly became so concerned about this group that they labeled them a psychocult, while simultaneously, Russia also declared their activities undesirable.

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Their controversial beliefs, psychological manipulation, and coercion, and worshiping their leader as if he was some kind of Messiah were starting to cause concern.

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And with the member base growing day by day, AllatRa was rapidly morphing from the appearance of an innocent climate-focused organization into a legitimate global threat.

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In August of that year, Ukrainian forces organized a series of raids on the homes of AllatRa's key members.

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They scoured Ukraine from top to bottom, and followed every lead they had, no matter how insignificant.

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More than 20 cells were broken up, yet surprisingly, Danilov was nowhere to be seen.

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While the case though, they weren't entirely empty-handed, as what they found instead was so unexpected, so completely out of left field that it turns this entire movement on its head.

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Inside one of their compounds, Ukrainian authorities uncovered an array of weapons, religious texts, and...

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A myriad of blurred red objects.

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Interesting.

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Well, good thing there's a video.

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So, let's see.

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All throughout this compound are not only shrines dedicated to Vladimir Putin, but Trump hats everywhere.

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This is why they're creating account after account, specializing in nearly every country in the world to spread their message.

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This is why they're paying Egon Cholakian to cozy up to any major governmental figure he can.

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This is why they've spread to California and have launched a trendy new YouTube channel for a fresh American audience.

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These people will not stop their efforts until they land someone inside the White House and beyond.

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And you wouldn't believe in, but they're well on their way there.

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- I am running for President of the United States of America to give power back to the people and build a Creative Society worldwide.

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- It turns out that former football coach and presidential candidate, Robby Wells, has been associated with AllatRa and The Creative Society since 2019.

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Running for office, circulating the same rhetoric about a universal basic income, using every social media account to deliver pro-AllatRa, pro-Putin conspiracies to his followers.

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Pastor Mark Burns, the man who just helped erect the golden statue of Trump, also has video after video spamming every one of his socials supporting AllatRa's cause.

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And most insane of all, even the Pope has given AllatRa his blessing, something they make absolutely sure to boast about on their website.

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These activities, these attempts at gaining access to major governments across the world are happening right under our nose.

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And no one, besides a handful of people dedicated to following Egon's trail are talking about any of this.

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- Hello, Clara.

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- Allow me to introduce you to Jakub Jahl, a journalist, YouTuber, and qualified expert in cults, dedicating his life's work to exposing them, and the plethora of sophisticated techniques they use to manipulate their followers.

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He's also a humanitarian, having spent numerous years volunteering in Africa, traveling to communities like the town of Moshi, Tanzania, where he helped to provide education and support to people in less privileged situations than his own or at least, that's what he says he does.

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Scattered across YouTube are numerous, near identical documentaries that provide a much more sinister look into Jakub's supposed activities in Tanzania.

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"Satanist in Africa." "From charity to child abuse." "The victims told the truth." "Why is Jakub Jahl still free?" These productions span hours, and appear to be entirely legitimate documentaries.

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They're presented by verifiable hosts, who have taken to the streets of Moshi to interview locals who'd like to expose the truth.

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That Jakub Jahl is a liar, a deviant, and that he secretly and covertly conducted an undercover operation to abuse and brainwash children in Africa.

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This case is so disturbing, so repulsive, that all over TikTok to this day are hundreds upon hundreds of videos spreading the word about this monster that has seemingly been hiding under the radar for years.

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- This horrible human being who abused kids in Tanzania.

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His name is Jakub Jahl.

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He is from Czech Republic.

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He came to Tanzania.

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- Just take a look what this predator, Jakub Jahl, who African kids is saying.

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- Jakub Jahl raised thousands of euros claiming it was to help children in Tanzania.

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And then he used this money to brutally abuse them.

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- This account, oli.climate.girl, is one of hundreds spreading the Jakub Jahl story, which is fine.

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It's good to get the word out.

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The part that isn't fine though is that this very account has already shown up in this video.

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Jakub Jahl never did any of this.

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The documentaries, completely fabricated.

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The endless support of them, entirely manufactured.

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Every bit of information we've learned about Jakub up to this point has been nothing but what AllatRa wants us to know about him, because just a few years ago, Jakub did something to absolutely enrage them.

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In 2023, Jakub Jahl was one of a number of Czech journalists working to expose AllatRa's activities.

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Turns out that he was instrumental in locating one of Igor Danilov's hideouts.

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And because of his meddling, he's now facing a coordinated smear campaign, essentially painting him as the devil.

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Unfortunately, it's difficult to parse who exactly is connected to AllatRa and who isn't when it comes to their comment sections.

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They've amassed hundreds of them across their various uploads, and the overall sentiment ranges from unapologetic support to cautious skepticism.

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From what it seems, this massive psyop they're pushing is working in some capacity, as it's even caused the Czech government themselves to step in and investigate Jakub for these claims.

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It took years before he was exonerated.

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And while today he's thankful for it, the mental toll it took on him, combined with the internet's collective outrage about him doing things he never would've even imagined doing, all of it had unfortunately put him in an extremely dark place.

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- Hello, this is Pastor Mark Burns, spiritual advisor of the President of Donald Trump.

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And I want to tell you, I'm here in the Tanzania Embassy right now, just had a wonderful productive meeting.

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Jakub or Jakub is not going to get away with the evil and the atrocities that has been done to these children.

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So, let's continue to pray.

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Let's continue to fight.

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And let's continue to tell the world that justice is coming, Jakub.

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You won't get away with this.

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- To this day, if you look up Jakub Jahl on any search engine or social media platform, you'll find video after video painting him out to be a monster.

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It is an absolute travesty, and that's exactly how AllatRa wants it.

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- It's interesting.

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I don't know if you know, but this summer holidays, AllatRa is again visiting Tanzania.

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They're going there with like 20 volunteers for two weeks.

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And you know why they do it?

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Because the children we were helping, they discovered all their orphanages, and now they're getting into that orphanages.

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Of course, when they give those people money, you know, of course, they will take it and they will be happy.

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So now, they're going there and visiting those children we cared for for years.

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And they're visiting them and they will try turning them into this AllatRa member in the future, you know?

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They have like this whole campaign.

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And that's the real torture thing, you know? - Right.

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- Because they can't hurt me with lies when I know it's a lie, you know?

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But they can hurt me with those children.

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We helped them medically, we put them in school.

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And now, they go there.

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You know, now they made all those people crazy.

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You know, they're spreading those things.

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So, I can't visit Tanzania anymore.

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I can never visit them again, the children.

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Nor any of the volunteers who like traveled there with a bunch of people for years.

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We care for all of them.

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No one can visit them anymore.

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And all of those children are getting indoctrinated into AllatRa cult now.

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- Now that you're saying that, I had never considered that as one of the negative effects that AllatRa has had on people.

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That, I will say, is probably one of the most grim out of everything.

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And I never knew that.

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So, thank you for bringing that up because I want more people to know about this.

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- Yeah, so that's like the real thing that's hurting me.

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That's the only thing I can't like be laughing about.

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But the other things that they, okay, so they will kill me somewhere, you know?

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There's like something I can laugh about because I don't care so much anymore when I know that it's much more important to fight against them.

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But this is something that hurts me.

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And I also feel guilty because if I would not visit those children, and would not investigate cults, they would not be indoctrinated by this crazy cult that's now targeting them.

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- At the end of all of this, I'm simply left feeling shocked.

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Shocked at the fact that something so random, so minuscule, a simple live stream by Destiny, and a Reddit post to accompany it could morph into something so far from where we started.

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This entire time, Egon Cholakian has been nothing but a cog in a much greater machine, a fraud in so many aspects of this life.

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AllatRa to this day is operating around the world, and is doing everything they can to entangle themselves in world governments to further their cause.

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Like with Robby Wells and Mark Burns, their strategies have been undeniably effective.

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However, I believe that shining a spotlight on groups like this can truly help prevent them from weaseling their way into where they don't belong.

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What they've unleashed upon Jakub Jahl and the handful of other journalists that have exposed them is cruel and inhumane.

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And it reveals to me just how effective the internet can be at swaying public opinion.

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If you had never watched this video and had randomly stumbled upon Jakub's story, I wouldn't fault you for believing everything that AllatRa's been peddling.

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I wouldn't fault you for believing their climate disaster reports, considering the changes our planet's seen in the past few decades.

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And I wouldn't fault you for giving these people credibility given the seemingly endless images and videos depicting them with powerful figures.

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While Igor Danilov to this day remains at large, his group continues to operate in capacities that I still don't fully understand.

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Who knows how many women are still under his grasp, worshiping him as something he isn't, coerced into satisfying him whenever he demands it, and being tormented into an agonizing silence.

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I can only hope that someday they wake up and realize how fraudulent everything about AllatRa truly is.

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- They use a different strategy, you know?

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In the past, they used young women who were lured into the cult.

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Now they use women who, young women who are daughters of couples who are already members.

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So it's more like a prestige thing that the couples, the parents are like offering their young daughter to Igor, you know, to be a Heavenly Bird.

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They transformed it and thus, they can be sure that the parents will not start an anti-cult or anti-AllatRa like campaign, you know?

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So, that's one of the main things what they changed.

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Also, I think now they could not bear a Heavenly Bird to run away.

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So, I think like honestly that if a woman would want to run away, they would just bury her in the lake, you know?

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Like the lake where they are is like famous for being like they find every half year, they find someone who was killed and buried in that lake, you know?

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It's like very famous.

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So it's not like a difficult way, you know, and place to do that.

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But I'm sure they're manipulating them heavily.

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And they have much more of them now.

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They have 24 of those women now, you know?

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And I don't know if you remember the stories quite though-

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Vocabulary and speaking notes for this lesson

This B2 speaking lesson is built on the video “The Internet's Deepest Rabbit Hole”. This video has 374 sentences and 6376 words to shadow. The speech runs for 51:01. The speaker talks at a steady 125 words per minute, a comfortable pace for shadowing. Only 80% of the words are among the 3,000 most common in English, so the vocabulary is demanding.

Key vocabulary in this video

The 15 most advanced words in the video, with pronunciation and meaning:

Word	Pronunciation	Meaning
depict verb	/dɪˈpɪkt/	To render a representation of something, using words, sounds, images, or other means.
prophet noun	/ˈpɹɑ.fɪt/	Someone who speaks by divine inspiration.
endless adjective	/ˈɛndlɪs/	Having no end.
anomaly noun	/əˈnɑ.mə.li/	A deviation from a rule or from what is regarded as normal; an outlier.
doomsday noun	/ˈduːmz.deɪ/	The day when God is expected to judge the world; the end times.
fabricate verb	/ˈfæb.ɹɪ.keɪt/	To form into a whole by uniting its parts; to construct; to build.
nanotechnology noun	/ˌnænoʊtɛkˈnɑləd͡ʒi/	The science and technology of creating nanoparticles and of manufacturing machines which have sizes within the range of nanometres (1–100 nm).
outlandish adjective	/ˌaʊtˈlændɪʃ/	Appearing to be foreign; strange, unfamiliar.
stumble verb	/ˈstʌmbəl/	To trip or fall; to walk clumsily.
impending adjective	/ɪmˈpɛndɪŋ/	Approaching; drawing near; about to happen or expected to happen.
admittedly adverb		As is acknowledged to be true; by general admission; confessedly.
fraudulent adjective	/ˈfɹɔːdjʊ.lənt/	Dishonest; based on fraud or deception.
heavenly adjective	/ˈhɛvənli/	Of or pertaining to Heaven, the eternal celestial abode of God or the gods.
manipulation noun	/məˌnɪp.juˈleɪ.ʃən/	The practice of manipulating or the state of being manipulated.
credibility noun	/kɹɛd.əˈbɪ.ɫɪ.ti/	A reputation impacting one's ability to be believed.

Phrasal verbs you will hear

Word	Meaning
turn out verb	To end up; to result.
come off verb	To become detached.
get away with verb	To get away, or escape, taking (something) with one.
run away verb	To flee by running.
book off verb	To call off from work.
break up verb	To break or separate into pieces.
bring up verb	To mention.
come up verb	To emerge or become known, especially unexpectedly.

Sentences worth repeating

Short, complete lines from the video that you can reuse in everyday conversation:

Why exactly are we giving this guy attention?
And you're saying we don't have the complete story?
What's going on with this?
You won't get away with this.
You know, they're spreading those things.

Grammar in this video

The structures the speaker uses most, with the exact words from the video:

Structure	In the video
Present perfect continuous have/has been + -ing — an action that started earlier and is still going on	I've been making · We've been conducting · has been operating
Conditional sentences if + clause, will/would + verb — a condition and its result	if a woman would want
Present perfect have/has + past participle — a past action that still matters now	have noticed · have ever seen · has fabricated
Passive voice be + past participle — the focus is on what happens, not who does it	can be seen · has been centered · were promised

Pronunciation to watch

The speaker uses 98 contractions and reduced forms, such as they're, we've, I'm. Say them the short way, as you hear them.

The “sh” and “zh” sounds: outlandish /ˌaʊtˈlændɪʃ/, manipulation /məˌnɪp.juˈleɪ.ʃən/, disinformation /ˌdɪsɪnfəˈmeɪʃ(ə)n/, proficient /pɹoʊˈfɪʃ.ənt/, restriction /ɹɪˈstɹɪkʃən/
Long words — get the stress right: anomaly /əˈnɑ.mə.li/, nanotechnology /ˌnænoʊtɛkˈnɑləd͡ʒi/, manipulation /məˌnɪp.juˈleɪ.ʃən/, credibility /kɹɛd.əˈbɪ.ɫɪ.ti/, chiropractor /ˈkaɪ.ɹəˌpɹæk.tə(ɹ)/

How to practise with this video

Listen to the whole video once without speaking and note the words you do not know.
Shadow it sentence by sentence at normal speed, repeating each one until your rhythm matches the speaker.
Record yourself and compare with the original, paying attention to words like depict, prophet, endless.

What is the Shadowing Technique?

Shadowing is a science-backed language learning technique originally developed for professional interpreter training and popularized by polyglot Dr. Alexander Arguelles. The method is simple but powerful: you listen to native English audio and immediately repeat it out loud — like a shadow following the speaker with just a 1–2 second delay. Unlike passive listening or grammar drills, shadowing forces your brain and mouth muscles to simultaneously process and reproduce real speech patterns. Research shows it significantly improves pronunciation accuracy, intonation, rhythm, connected speech, listening comprehension, and speaking fluency — making it one of the most effective methods for IELTS Speaking preparation and real-world English communication.

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