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[Fake Messiah]

MAGA claims Trump signature in Epstein birthday book is fake

MAGA influencers largely dismissed House Democrats' release of the birthday letter President Trump allegedly wrote for Jeffrey Epstein in 2003, claiming the signature is a forgery.

"Does the below from the WSJ look like this actual signature from the President? I don't think so at all. Fake," MAGA activist Charlie Kirk posted on X.

"Is this really the best they could do? Trump has the most famous signature in the world. Time to sue them into the oblivion," added podcaster Benny Johnson.

The White House echoed those arguments, with deputy chief of staff Taylor Budowich claiming vindication because the signature did not match several of Trump's recent autographs.

Vice President Vance, who had asked where the birthday letter was after the Journal's initial report in July, posted on X: "The Democrats don't care about Epstein. They don't even care about his victims."

"That's why they were silent about it for years. The only thing they care about is concocting another fake scandal like Russiagate to smear President Trump with lies," he added.

Analyses by the Journal and the New York Times found Trump's alleged signature in the birthday book — which contained only his first name, rather than the full name he uses on official documents — matched the style of several hand-written letters he penned throughout the 1990s and 2000s.

https://www.axios.com/2025/09/08/trump-e...thday-book

[Fake Messiah]

UK - 'Conspiracy-driven' network may be behind 5G mast attacks

A network of "conspiracy-driven" individuals may be behind an escalating series of arson attacks on 5G masts which has caused £4m worth of damage, police have said.

On Tuesday, a 44-year-old man appeared in court charged with arson with intent to destroy after a mast was set alight in west Belfast at the weekend.

An investigating detective said the incident on Sunday had been linked to a wider series of 18 arson attacks on 5G masts across west Belfast since 2023, with the attacks anticipated to cost "in the region of £4m".

"These attacks are not the work of a single individual, but have been carried out by a number of individuals as part of a network, or possibly united by sharing conspiracy-driven beliefs online via social media chatrooms."

Mr Clarke's barrister argued that the alleged conspiracy views about the masts could possibly provide him with a defence at any future prosecution.

"All he would have to prove is whether he had a reasonable belief at the time," Michael Halleron said.

"That could be complete nonsense, looking at it objectively, but it is all on the basis of his subjective belief."

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cy8ryrm39pgo.amp

[The Grand Nudger]

In what world is that a defense and not a confession, lol?

[Fake Messiah]

Charlie Kirk assassination conspiracy theory: Viral video shows man behind Kirk making hand signals moment before fatal shot.

A viral video is fueling conspiracy theories online, showing a man standing behind Kirk making unusual hand gestures moments before the fatal shooting.

The video shows one individual tipping his hat, followed by another man in a black shirt crossing one arm and making a finger sign. Some online users speculated he could have been part of Kirk’s security team, while others saw it as a suspicious act.

“Who is the person behind Charlie Kirk, and why is he making what appears to be a ‘signal’ right before Charlie is shot? This is NOT a normal gesture,” wrote one user on X, who first shared the clip.

https://m.economictimes.com/news/interna...823086.cms

[Fake Messiah]

The Rise of ‘Conspiracy Physics’

Streamers are building huge audiences by attacking academic physics as just another corrupt establishment. Scientists are starting to worry about the consequences.

In recent years, a group of YouTubers and podcasters have attracted millions of viewers by proclaiming that physics is in crisis. The field, they argue, has discovered little of importance in the last 50 years, because it is dominated by groupthink and silences anyone who dares to dissent from mainstream ideas, like string theory.

Take Eric Weinstein, a podcaster and former managing director at Thiel Capital who coined the term “intellectual dark web.” In May, Weinstein appeared on Piers Morgan’s YouTube show to talk about Geometric Unity, his self-published theory of fundamental physics that claims to supersede Einstein and resolve some of the biggest mysteries in the universe, like what dark matter is made of.

When Weinstein complained that academia has ignored his work, another guest on the show, Sean Carroll, a physicist at Johns Hopkins University, tried to explain why by reading from it. “It says, ‘This document is an attempt to begin recovering a rather more complete theory which at this point is only partially remembered and stiched [sic] together from old computer files, notebooks, recordings, and the like dating back as far as 1983.’ And this is why this paper is not going to appear in the peer-reviewed literature,” Carroll explained. “It’s not serious. It’s a dog-ate-my-homework kind of thing.”

“How dare you,” Weinstein whispered. “Your intellectually insulting aspect reminds me of you as the Marie Antoinette of theoretical physics influencers.”

The German physicist Sabine Hossenfelder has attracted 1.72 million YouTube subscribers in part by attacking her colleagues: “Your problem is that you’re lying to the people who pay you,” she declared. “Your problem is that you’re cowards without a shred of scientific integrity.”

In this corner of the internet, the scientist Scott Aaronson has written, “Anyone perceived as the ‘mainstream establishment’ faces a near-insurmountable burden of proof, while anyone perceived as ‘renegade’ wins by default if they identify any hole whatsoever in mainstream understanding.”

Such renegades get a friendly reception from Joe Rogan, who regularly has Weinstein on his top-ranked podcast. Rogan’s blend of genuine interest in physics with just-asking-questions goofiness and suspicion of intellectual authority has created a template followed by other popular podcasters.

Chris Williamson, who became famous for competing on the British reality TV show “Love Island,” hosts a similar roster of scientists and skeptics on his popular show “Modern Wisdom.” “This is like ‘The Kardashians’ for physicists—I love it,” said Williamson about bitter attacks on leading physicists.

https://www.wsj.com/science/physics/the-...s-dd79fe36

[AFTT47]

Charlie Kirk assassination conspiracy theory: Viral video shows man behind Kirk making hand signals moment before fatal shot.

A viral video is fueling conspiracy theories online, showing a man standing behind Kirk making unusual hand gestures moments before the fatal shooting.

The video shows one individual tipping his hat, followed by another man in a black shirt crossing one arm and making a finger sign. Some online users speculated he could have been part of Kirk’s security team, while others saw it as a suspicious act.

“Who is the person behind Charlie Kirk, and why is he making what appears to be a ‘signal’ right before Charlie is shot? This is NOT a normal gesture,” wrote one user on X, who first shared the clip.

https://m.economictimes.com/news/interna...823086.cms

The supposed hand gesturer would need to be one brave SOB if he knew what was coming and stood that close to Charlie Kirk.

[AFTT47]

The Rise of ‘Conspiracy Physics’

Streamers are building huge audiences by attacking academic physics as just another corrupt establishment. Scientists are starting to worry about the consequences.

In recent years, a group of YouTubers and podcasters have attracted millions of viewers by proclaiming that physics is in crisis. The field, they argue, has discovered little of importance in the last 50 years, because it is dominated by groupthink and silences anyone who dares to dissent from mainstream ideas, like string theory.


The German physicist Sabine Hossenfelder has attracted 1.72 million YouTube subscribers in part by attacking her colleagues: “Your problem is that you’re lying to the people who pay you,” she declared. “Your problem is that you’re cowards without a shred of scientific integrity.”


https://www.wsj.com/science/physics/the-...s-dd79fe36

I used to watch Sabine Hossenfelder frequently until she started focusing on her claim that the physics community is broken. Not being an actual scientist, I don't feel qualified to weigh in on this. I get what she's saying but I can't personally evaluate a scientific paper and determine that it's nothing but elegant mathematics unconnected with the real universe.

The issue seems to be that physics has been drifting into areas of pure mathematics, theories which cannot be falsified. Technically, that isn't science. It's not just string theory. The Big Bang Theory doesn't work without Inflation, another questionable area of research. Inflation in turn seems to require a multi-verse - something which also can't be falsified.

I don't know what to think. The universe or multiverse is what it is. It doesn't care whether or not we can make sense of it or whether or not we have the capability of falsifying some of our theories about it. String theory, Inflation and a multiverse are good-faith attempts to explain observations. What are physicists to do if the evidence leads them into areas where the scientific method cannot be applied? Does that mean the field of theoretical physics is dead?

[Fake Messiah]

Charlie Kirk is not dead and other conspiracies

Within hours of the assassination of conservative activist Charlie Kirk, edited videos began to spread online. Some focused on the moment Kirk was shot — zooming in on the obviously fatal wound to make the strange claim that he hadn’t been killed at all: that the video was a fake, generated by computer, or that a squeeze of his right arm was proof he had popped a capsule to make it appear as if blood was pouring from his neck.

In videos that each racked up hundreds of thousands of views, one Illinois creator pointed to photos of the Turning Point USA founder making an “OK” sign with his hands: these symbols, they said, proved Kirk had not only had faked his death, but that it also actually revealed his alignment with a demonic cabal that secretly controlled the world.

Conspiracy theories live on a spectrum of possibility and politics. Some built around the Kirk assassination are far-flung ones, pushed by flat-earthers and false-flag obsessives. Others, more mainstream, have without strong evidence pointed blame at Israel, farther-right antisemitic activists, imaginary underground progressive terrorist organizations and Donald Trump himself. Some were likely motivated by belief, but others perhaps by a desire for internet attention, for entertainment or for political purposes yet to be seen.

"Charlie Kirk’s assassination was not just some kid,” former Trump adviser Steve Bannon told his War Room listeners Monday, inviting them to watch surveillance video of the alleged shooter descending a roof, footage that has been held up as evidence by some MAGA influencers that Kash Patel’s FBI is hiding something.

Candace Owens, his longtime friend and former employee, has spent the last several days publicly grieving while posting about “some very powerful billionaires” that she said Kirk was facing pressure from over his wavering support for Israel. In her online show Monday, she also suggested something nefarious about the FBI’s handling of the crime.

"With God as my witness, we are going to use every resource we have at the Department of Justice, Homeland Security and throughout this government to identify, disrupt, dismantle and destroy these networks and make America safe again,” deputy chief of staff for policy Stephen Miller said, defining the unnamed networks as “the organized doxxing campaigns, the organized riots, the organized street violence, the organized campaigns of dehumanization, vilification, posting people’s addresses, combining that with messaging designed to trigger, incite violence and the actual organized cells that carry out and facilitate the violence.”

This narrative is the ultimate conspiracy theory. That its enemy is so fundamentally undefined is the source of its power. The characters in this story are so broad that it can be weaponized against any and every perceived political enemy. It already has been.

https://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/amp/rcna231698

[AFTT47]

Now there are a ton of claims that the text message supposedly sent by the shooter to his roommate/lover is phony. Here's one which makes a lot of good points. Also, it is unheard of for any law enforcement to release evidence like this during an ongoing investigation.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2JWyifMqvhA

[Fake Messiah]

Russia, China and Iran Use Kirk’s Murder to Stoke Conspiracy Theories and Division

The findings underscored remarks made last week by Gov. Spencer Cox of Utah, where Mr. Kirk was fatally shot during an appearance on a college campus on Sept. 10.

“What we are seeing is our adversaries want violence,” Mr. Cox said two days after the shooting. “We have bots from Russia, China, all over the world, that are trying to instill disinformation and encourage violence.”

Foreign influence campaigns have become a recurrent backdrop to virtually any news event in the United States — from natural disasters to elections to political crises.
Russia, China and Iran, especially, try to exploit events in the United States to push their own geopolitical agendas. While their narratives differ, and even contradict each other, they share a goal of undermining American democracy and its reputation globally.

The day after the killing, Russia’s English-language news channel, RT, repeated unsubstantiated claims that people near Mr. Kirk were making hand signs to cue the shooter. Law enforcement officials have said Tyler Robinson, the man charged in the killing, acted alone.

Aleksandr Dugin, a prominent ultranationalist writer in Russia, falsely claimed in subsequent days that the “Deep State” and George Soros’s Open Society Foundations were behind the killing because of Mr. Kirk’s faith and patriotic values — a theme echoed among some conservatives in the United States, as well.

“Charlie Kirk was on our side of the front line that now divides humanity,” Mr. Dugin wrote. “The civil war in the U.S.A. is not something distant.”

Russia’s state media sought to link the assassination to the war in Ukraine, while officials and pro-Russian accounts online even suggested that Ukraine was somehow behind it. NewsGuard noted that the Russians made the same claims after the attempted assassination of President Trump during last year’s election campaign, which had no link at all to Ukraine or the war. In the past, Russia, like other adversaries, has also spread similar narratives using bot accounts posing as Americans.

Iran claimed that Israel’s secret service carried out the killing as a way to distract Americans from the killings of Palestinians in Gaza. China, not inaccurately, portrayed the United States as a deeply divided country, but one pro-China account on X falsely stated that the shooter donated $224 to President Trump’s election campaign in 2020, according to NewsGuard.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/17/busin...ories.html