Daily conspiracy

[AFTT47]

^ Nothing new there. A military public relations officer at Roswell made up the crashed flying saucer story back in 1947. It was effective at diverting attention from the top secret Project Mogul but of course it backfired by attracting massive attention to the area from alien enthusiasts that persists to this day. I'm surprised they didn't learn their lesson.

[Fake Messiah]

Elon Musk, Donald Trump feud ‘fake’? Here's why conspiracy theorists are convinced

QAnon and conspiracy theory circles speculated that the Musk vs Trump clash and was a ruse to trick Democrats into demanding Epstein file disclosures.

Some said it’s a scripted ploy, dubbed ‘kayfabe’, a pro-wrestling term for staged conflicts.

QAnon influencer who goes by AwakenedOutlaw, with 300,000+ X followers, wrote: “Smooth-brained folks who haven't been paying attention and don't understand that kayfabe is in play, actually believe Trump and Musk are fighting."

Others said that the feud is ‘5D chess’ to manipulate Democrats. A Telegram user on David Clements’ channel said, “It's a wonderful game of 5D chess! Get the popcorn out, and watch the left go wild.”

Liz Crokin, a Pizzagate theorist, claimed, “It would not surprise me if the Deep State created fake evidence falsely implicating Trump. If this is case, their scheme will fail and backfire. So grab your popcorn and watch the media and Democrats falsely report Trump is a pedophile and a sex trafficker—this boomerang will be epic! 5D chess at its finest, baby—checkmate!”

https://www.hindustantimes.com/world-new...13632.html

[Fake Messiah]

Fake Images and Conspiracy Theories Swirl Around L.A. Protests

Misleading photographs, videos and text have spread widely on social media as protests against immigrant raids have unfolded in Los Angeles, rehashing old conspiracy theories and expressing support for President Trump’s actions.

They also added to the confusion over what exactly was happening on the streets, which was portrayed in digital and social media through starkly divergent ideological lenses. Many posts created the false impression that the entire city was engulfed in violence, when the clashes were limited to only a small part.

There were numerous scenes of protesters throwing rocks or other objects at law enforcement officers and setting cars ablaze, including a number of self-driving Waymo taxis. At the same time, false images spread to revive old conspiracies that the protests were a planned provocation, not a spontaneous response to the immigration raids.

Darren L. Linvill, a researcher at Clemson University’s Media Forensics Hub, said conservatives online were “building up the riots in a performative way” to help bolster Mr. Trump’s claims that Los Angeles had been taken over by “violent, insurrectionist mobs.”

James Woods, the actor who has become known for spreading conspiracy theories, used his account on X to rail against the state’s elected officials, especially Mr. Newsom, a Democrat. He also reposted a fabricated quote, attributed to former President Barack Obama, discussing a secret plot to impose socialism on the country, as well as a video of burning police cars that was from 2020.

An innocuous photograph of a pallet of bricks, actually posted on the website of a building materials wholesaler in Malaysia, was cited as proof that the protests were organized by nonprofit organizations supported by George Soros, the financier who, to the feverishly conspiratorial right, has become a mastermind of global disorder.

“It’s Civil War!!” an account on X wrote on Saturday, claiming that the bricks had been placed near the offices of Immigration and Customs Enforcement for “Democrat militants.”

X posted a Community Note pointing out that the photograph had nothing to do with the protests, but it still was seen more than 800,000 times. It was also widely reposted, including by several seemingly inauthentic accounts in Chinese.

The online trope dates at least to the Black Lives Matter protests in 2020. It reappeared in 2022 after a conspiratorial post by Representative Lauren Boebert, a Colorado Republican who suggested that bricks for a paving project near Capitol Hill were intended for violent protests after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade.

On his own platform, Truth Social, Mr. Trump also suggested that the protesters were “Paid Insurrectionists!”

Numerous posts echoed unsubstantiated claims that the protests were the work of Mr. Soros as well as local nongovernment organizations or Democratic elected officials, including the mayor of Los Angeles, Karen Bass. Some posts disparaging the protests were shared by accounts with deceptive handles that closely resembled those of official government sources or news organizations.

Mike Benz, a conspiracy-minded influencer on X who last year claimed that the Pentagon used the pop star Taylor Swift as part of a psychological operation to undercut Mr. Trump, advanced an outlandish theory that the mayor had links to the Central Intelligence Agency and had helped start riots in the city where she lives.

He based that simply on Ms. Bass’s role as a board member for the National Endowment for Democracy, the congressionally mandated organization formed during the Reagan administration to promote democratic governance around the world.

Not surprisingly, perhaps, the theme was echoed by accounts across social media linked to Russia, which often amplifies content that discredits the United States. The Kremlin and its supporters have long accused Mr. Soros or the United States government of covertly sponsoring “color revolutions” to overthrow governments — from the Arab Spring countries swept up by mass street protests in 2011 to Ukraine.

“It is nationwide conspiracy of liberals against not only Trump but against American people in general,” Aleksandr Dugin, a prominent nationalist in Russia, wrote on X on Sunday.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/10/techn...ation.html

[Fake Messiah]

Exactly 35 years ago a model used in the Gulf Breeze hoax was found at the former home of Ed Walters.



Also a reminder that Walters had been given a $200,000 book advance and offered $450,000 by the ABC for miniseries rights for his hoax.

[Fake Messiah]

Trump’s speech at Fort Bragg contained lies and conspiracy theories about LA

In his deeply partisan speech at Fort Bragg, Trump made the baseless claim that the protests against immigration raids in LA are being led by paid “rioters bearing foreign flags with the aim of continuing a foreign invasion”.

The comments echoed accusations by top Trump adviser and speechwriter Stephen Miller, who on Sunday wrote on social media that “foreign nationals, waving foreign flags” were “rioting”, and an unfounded allegation by Kristi Noem, Donald Trump’s homeland security secretary, who earlier this week accused the Mexican president, Claudia Sheinbaum, of “encouraging violent protests”.

Sheinbaum on Tuesday said the allegation is “absolutely false”.

Some protesters in recent days have waved the flags of Mexico, Guatemala and El Salvador – as well as flags that combine the banners of those nations with the US flag – in a show of ethnic pride and solidarity with immigrants in their community now targeted by immigration officials.

Trump also referenced a viral conspiracy theory that pallets of bricks were left out for protesters to hurl at police officers in LA. “They came in with bricks,” Trump said.

This claim was made repeatedly in 2020, during the Black Lives Matter protests that followed the murder of George Floyd by a Minneapolis police officer.

In June 2020, the week after Floyd was murdered, the Trump White House boosted the viral conspiracy theory by releasing a compilation of video clips posted on social media by people who believed, wrongly, that piles of bricks they came across had been planted there by “Antifa and professional anarchists” to inspire violence at protests.

Trump also claimed California’s Democratic elected officials paid protesters to attack federal officers, something for which there is no evidence at all.

“In Los Angeles, the governor of California, the mayor of Los Angeles, they’re incompetent and they paid troublemakers, agitators and insurrectionists. They’re engaged in this willful attempt to nullify federal law, and aid the occupation of the city by criminal invaders,” the president said without reference to reality.

That conspiracy theory was later repeated as fact in a social media post from the Department of Homeland Security with the text: “California politicians must call off their rioting mob.”

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...fort-bragg

[Nanny]

Convenient, innit, that this manufactured crisis erupted as the smoke was clearing from the TACO vs MACO spat.

[Fake Messiah]

The Head of a New RFK-Backing Group Promoted 9/11 Conspiracy Theories and the Protocols of the Elders of Zion

Last month, Leland Lehrman, a self-styled media entrepreneur, anti-vaccine activist, was named executive director of the MAHA Institute, a new advocacy organization that aims to amplify “MAHA wins for President Trump, Secretary Kennedy, and the Cabinet,” advise elected officials on the movement’s agenda, and “find and attract” allies to work in government.

The Institute for Research & Education on Human Rights, an organization which studies extremism and the far right, found that in the mid 2000s, Lehrman spread conspiracies about the September 11 attacks and extensively touted the Protocols of the Elders of Zion, an outrageous antisemitic forgery that purports to document a secret meeting where Jews plotted world domination and which has been debunked for over 100 years.

Lehrman wrote multiple articles outlining his belief in the Protocols on the website of Jeff Rense, a far-right radio host who’s often given airtime to Nazis, racists, and assorted antisemites. In 2005, Lehrman sat down for a long interview with Rense in which he described “high-level Jewish Illuminists, or Lucifer worshipers” who have “most certainly collaborated with the Lucifer worshipers in all the other sects like Nazism, like high-level Freemasonry. They have most certainly collaborated in the development of this New World Order plan.”

“The reason why the Protocols of Zion is important is because it is a terrifically well-elucidated encapsulation of all the methods and techniques that have been used to bring about the New World Order,” Lehrman added.

During his unsuccessful attempt to become New Mexico Democrats’ 2008 Senate nominee, Lehrman made reopening a commission on September 11 a major priority, as he continued to promote conspiracy theories about the attacks, now claiming that then-vice president Dick Cheney was responsible.

“It’s only because Americans are so terrified and so easily propagandized that this unbelievably bad conspiracy theory that the government has put forward about 19 hijackers and the guy in a cave in Afghanistan even warrants mention,” he told the Santa Fe Reporter in December 2007.

Lehrman details a series of roles that have drawn him nearer to Kennedy and his inner circle. He says he began volunteering for RFK’s presidential run in 2023, before being “hired to do research and provide ideas for Bobby and the campaign on policy issues, news briefs, and tweets.”

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/202...tember-11/

[Paleophyte]

I had an appointment to have my teeth cleaned earlier today. While the Dental Hygienist was rooting around in my mouth with a metal hook, trying to get the calculus evicted, I could overhear various conversations in the adjacent rooms. Most were pretty banal, and I tuned them out, focused on what was going down in my own mouth. At one point though I tuned in to:

"Blah, blah, blah, fluoride in the water, blah, blah, blah, mind control..."

OK, not only have you kept me entertained, you've impressed me with your unalloyed imbecility. The nice lady that you're annoying with your tinfoil hat rubbish is the very same person that you just granted permission to do road work in your mouth with drill and tweezers, so plus two for chuzpah but minus infinity for brains. Seriously, if we could control your mind you'd have a lot more smarts and less of an attraction for your cousin. I didn't hear any unusual screams in the moments that followed, but I'm reasonably confident that the offending individual got the extra-vigorous descaling.

[Fake Messiah]

If you hear stupid stuff when you go to a dentist, you can only imagine what kind of stuff you can hear when you go Earthing.

[zebo-the-fat]

If you hear stupid stuff when you go to a dentist, you can only imagine what kind of stuff you can hear when you go Earthing.

I think we need to see the peer reviewed research into this!