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[Fake Messiah]

In Argentina, a Decades-old Antisemitic Conspiracy Theory Has Been Reignited by Patagonia's Wildfires

As destructive wildfires spread through Argentina's Patagonia region, far-right influencers, politicians, commentators and a former military general have reignited a decades-old conspiracy theory that there is a "secret Jewish plan" to facilitate Israeli land purchases in the region.

Only a day after the fires began, an article published by a little-known local news site in Santa Cruz – a region 1,400 km (870 miles) south of the fires in Chubut – was the first to suggest Israeli tourists were setting fires.

Now Calafate, based in the glacier gateway town of Calafate, printed a regurgitation of a local radio station's interview with Martin Morales, a local resident who claimed he had prevented "two foreign tourists" from starting a fire at the national park in El Chaltén. The article includes a video taken by Morales in which he approaches a male tourist and instructs him in Spanish to put the fire out. While talking to the camera, Morales laments that the tourists "might be of Israeli origin." The tourist's apology in English is barely audible in the video.

That video soon spread on X and Instagram as the proof cited by both far-right and progressive anti-government accounts that Israelis were the culprits of Argentina's wildfires, with some users speculating that the tourist was a recently released IDF combat soldier and that his hat must be hiding his kippa. The tourist in the video was also edited onto a poster circulating on social media that reads: "Prevent fires. Expel the arsonist enemy. Israeli soldiers out of Argentina."

Spin-off theories also claimed that the fires were ignited by an Israeli-made military grenade that was found in Chubut by investigators. César Milani, the chief of the Argentine Armed Forces between 2013 and 2015, accused "a foreign state" of meddling in the fires in a post that included a picture of Milei posing with the Israeli flag. He stepped down following accusations that he committed crimes against humanity during the military junta dictatorship.

Over the weekend, a TV news interview with a local woman driving out from the fires after bringing food and supplies to firefighters went viral after she claimed that "everybody knows" the fires are intentional and that "Jews will buy these lands."

The claims echo Plan Andinia, an antisemitic conspiracy theory that was, until this week, marginal and circulated mostly among far-right nationalists in the country. More recent iterations of the theory say that all Israeli tourists are soldiers in disguise, equipped with military-grade GPS and mapping technology that they are using to plan a so-called "second Israel" in Patagonia.

The high concentration of Israelis has long caused friction, and travelers have been the target of antisemitism and anti-Israeli violence in the past: In 2014, activists in Bariloche launched a campaign calling on local business owners to boycott Israeli tourists. A year later, in Lago Puelo, Chubut, 10 Israelis were robbed and beaten at an Israeli-owned hostel by four people later charged under Argentina's anti-discrimination law. "You come here to steal our Patagonia," the attackers reportedly shouted, referencing Plan Andinia. "Go, fucking Jews. Fuck Israelis."

The conspiracy theory that Argentine Jews operate secretly with the State of Israel, which sends its tourists to build a second Jewish country in Patagonia, was first circulated in 1971 by far-right, anti-Peronist commentator Walter Beveraggi Allende in a Catholic magazine. The belief spread among the military dictatorship that ruled from 1976 to 1983.

https://www.haaretz.com/jewish/2026-01-1...dbc1de0000

[Fake Messiah]

Vermont Lawmaker Proposes Establishing a UFO Panel

If a Burlington legislator’s bill becomes law, a 10-member panel will investigate whenever something unidentified appears in the skies. Rep. Troy Headrick (I-Burlington) introduced a bill this week that would set up the Vermont Airspace Safety and Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena Task Force.

The group would review reports of sightings of unexplained objects. It would be able to make recommendations to manage risks to the public or Vermont airspace.

The panel would look into reports of unknown objects in the air or waterways, including any that might exhibit “performance characteristics not consistent with currently understood technologies.” These include “instantaneous acceleration absent observable inertia or hypersonic velocity without a corresponding thermal signature or sonic boom,” according to the bill.

Lenz , owner of Atlas Government Affairs, said she’s been fascinated by the issue, especially since a rash of reports in 2024 of objects over the skies of New Jersey. Most were drones or low-flying aircraft.

Those reports — and the government’s inability to provide credible information about them — cause Lenz to think a Vermont reporting and review system makes sense.

“I’m certain not saying that it’s aliens,” Lenz said Tuesday. “But I do think just having the conversation here in Vermont will begin to allow for it to be taken a little bit more seriously.”

https://www.sevendaysvt.com/news/vermont...ufo-panel/

[Fake Messiah]

Are you fooled by George Soros? Does this make any sense?

The ICE uproar is a conspiracy calculated to fool Americans

The chaos erupting in Minneapolis isn’t an organic protest movement, and it certainly isn’t spontaneous.

It’s coordinated. It’s calculated. And it’s deadly.

Ordinary Americans are being played — manipulated into dangerous confrontations by politicians and rabble-rousing activists.

The indoctrination has convinced them that federal immigration law is illegitimate, that US Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents have no authority to operate, and that physically confronting federal officers is not only justified, but moral.

It’s a weaponized form of Trump Derangement Syndrome — and federal prosecutors should call it what it is: criminal conspiracy.

The activist infrastructure behind this effort matters.

Local leaders like Gov. Tim Walz and Mayor Jacob Frey didn’t merely criticize President Trump’s policies.

They systematically delegitimized federal authority by portraying ICE’s lawful acts as an invasion — knowing full well that federal immigration enforcement is exclusive, constitutional and mandatory.

Their statements ran in parallel with activist messaging, reinforcing the same false claims and producing predictable, dangerous results.

“ICE watch” operations run through nonprofits and allied groups are organizing alerts, neighborhood monitoring and coordinated resistance.

Indivisible Twin Cities, which has financial ties with leftist billionaire George Soros, is part of the “ICE watch” effort in Minneapolis, The Post has reported.

So is Defend the 612, a group funded by a host of progressive nonprofits, according to the Daily Signal.

They’re raising money, training participants and synchronizing their tactics.

You don’t need matching jackets to have a conspiracy under the law; you need agreement, purpose and acts in furtherance.

That’s what the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act, better known as RICO, is for.

For the Democratic politicians behind this madness, the hypocrisy is staggering: Their party spent years going full-bore against Jan. 6 protesters.

Wielding wall-to-wall outrage, they professed absolute moral certainty that political belief is no defense to obstructing federal authority — and they jailed people up and down the chain to prove it.

https://nypost.com/2026/01/14/opinion/th...americans/

[Angrboda]

That's some industrial-grade stupid. Right-wingers think that the left's attempted accountability of illegal right-wing behaviors stems from identity and antipathy toward the right, and therefore anything that mirrors that, where a right-winger has antipathy toward the left's behavior, justifies similar legal accountability. What this moron is missing is that the actions in Minneapolis are constitutionally protected. It's not enough to want something to stop, as this moron does, you need a valid justification for having it stopped. The "fuck your feelings" crowd turns out to be primarily interested in their feelings, regardless of facts and reason. More hypocrisy from the right.

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

That's some industrial-grade stupid.  Right-wingers think that the left's attempted accountability of illegal right-wing behaviors stems from identity and antipathy toward the right, and therefore anything that mirrors that, where a right-winger has antipathy toward the left's behavior, justifies similar legal accountability.  What this moron is missing is that the actions in Minneapolis are constitutionally protected.  It's not enough to want something to stop, as this moron does, you need a valid justification for having it stopped.  The "fuck your feelings" crowd turns out to be primarily interested in their feelings, regardless of facts and reason.  More hypocrisy from the right.

Conservatives (not just American ones) have a long history of getting angry about shit they made up.

Boru

[Alan V]

This is something my wife came across. It dates from October 2024. She thought Atheist Forums members would find it interesting:

THE DEMOCRAT PARTY IS – A DEMONIC CULT OF DEATH

To be sure, the Democrat party is the party of the godless liberal demonic woke pagan cult of Liberals, Marxists, Atheists, statists, idolaters, sodomites, feminist bit**es, abortionists and pedophiles, liars and deceivers, criminals and reprobates, Hollywood thugs and serial rapists, neo-fascist warmongers, spiritual fa**ots, traffickers and traitors, as well as all out Satanists. The whole party is DEMONIC! Romans 1:18-32!

It is also good to know that President Trump is not just the only choice for conservatives and Christians, he is a great choice, and the best choice since Reagan! He is even better than Reagan! And he has exposed the manifold evils and hypocrisy of the old Bush-Cheney establishment. And so in voting for President Trump, you will not only be opposing a wicked and reprobate feminist woke pagan liberal witch named Kamala Harris, but also the very works of the Devil and antichrist by doing so!

It goes on and on with the same slanders.

In the U.S., there is an epidemic of self-righteousness on the right. That's why they reelected an authoritarian, malignant narcissist for president, a man who doesn't recognize other people's boundaries.

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

This is something my wife came across.  It dates from October 2024.  She thought Atheist Forums members would find it interesting:

THE DEMOCRAT PARTY IS – A DEMONIC CULT OF DEATH

To be sure, the Democrat party is the party of the godless liberal demonic woke pagan cult of Liberals, Marxists, Atheists, statists, idolaters, sodomites, feminist bit**es, abortionists and pedophiles, liars and deceivers, criminals and reprobates, Hollywood thugs and serial rapists, neo-fascist warmongers, spiritual fa**ots, traffickers and traitors, as well as all out Satanists. The whole party is DEMONIC! Romans 1:18-32!

It is also good to know that President Trump is not just the only choice for conservatives and Christians, he is a great choice, and the best choice since Reagan! He is even better than Reagan! And he has exposed the manifold evils and hypocrisy of the old Bush-Cheney establishment. And so in voting for President Trump, you will not only be opposing a wicked and reprobate feminist woke pagan liberal witch named Kamala Harris, but also the very works of the Devil and antichrist by doing so!

It goes on and on with the same slanders.

In the U.S., there is an epidemic of self-righteousness on the right.  That's why they reelected an authoritarian, malignant narcissist for president, a man who doesn't recognize other people's boundaries.

Out of those 26 slurs, I only qualify for 8. I promise to try harder.

Boru

[zebo-the-fat]

This is something my wife came across.  It dates from October 2024.  She thought Atheist Forums members would find it interesting:

THE DEMOCRAT PARTY IS – A DEMONIC CULT OF DEATH


It goes on and on with the same slanders.

In the U.S., there is an epidemic of self-righteousness on the right.  That's why they reelected an authoritarian, malignant narcissist for president, a man who doesn't recognize other people's boundaries.

Out of those 26 slurs, I only qualify for 8. I promise to try harder.

Boru

That's just not good enough!

[Fake Messiah]

Conspiracy theories erupt after unique cloud appears over eastern North Carolina

A peculiar cloud seen slithering over eastern North Carolina has ignited an equally peculiar debate on social media, including conspiracy theories about secret government experiments.

“A plane flew through some supercooled water droplets within cirrocumulus clouds. The plane introduced ice crystals, allowing for the supercooled droplets to freeze immediately. A hole is left behind,” the NWS office in Wilmington reported in a Jan. 9 social media post.

Many readers weren’t convinced, however. As of Jan. 16, nearly 400 reactions and comments had been posted, with some accusing the National Weather Service of “normalizing these strange clouds.”

“The lies just doesn’t stop. Vast majority know what’s up,” one woman wrote on the NWS Facebook page.

“They get paid to brainwash us just like the pilots get paid to spray us,” another posted.

“People need to start collecting water samples, soil samples, and get them tested,” a man added.

Fact is, fallstreak clouds are a well known phenomenon, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.

https://amp.charlotteobserver.com/news/s...44537.html

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

Out of those 26 slurs, I only qualify for 8. I promise to try harder.

Boru

That's just not good enough!

Well, depending on how you define ‘pagan’, I could stretch it to 9…

Boru