• cubaenjoyer
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    5 months ago

    Caution with Escobar journalism. He is famous in Brazil for making sensationalist articles or straight lies (like the israeli jet carrying a nuke that was shot down by Russia in Irak) Edit: a word.

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      5 months ago

      Has he conceded that the source was wrong? It was a strange article but not too difficult to believe happening. But yeah, your warning has been taken to heart. I do like how the judge explores many opinions.

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        5 months ago

        Not all his takes are bad but I believe he often passes his own theories as information he got from a secret informant that I have contact wirh

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          5 months ago

          Really trying to a win a Pulitzer by the sounds of it.

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      Pepe reposted an article to his tgram channel with some comments:

      That article’s analysis is that the British elite hate Russia because the Putin government displaced Rothchild-aligned Jewish oligarchs who took control of post-soviet Russia, and that “the Rothchilds are as British as 5 o’clock tea”. Laughable tripe if you ask me. So in addition to being sensational, he seems to also some combination of an uncritical dupe, an actual moron, or a reactionary.

      Edit: link: https://www.unz.com/ishamir/why-do-brits-hate-russians/

      Also I don’t mean to say pepe should be dismissed out of hand. He travels a lot and seems to talk to lots of ppl and so surfaces interesting stuff from time to time.