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Marthe48

(16,938 posts)
Thu May 11, 2017, 03:41 PM May 2017

Is patribotics.blog reliable?

Someone posted a link on facebook that the Russian money is far-reaching and that Orrin Hatch might become President, because the line of succession is tainted down to him? I tested the basic url and it goes to their site. It it isn't an iffy site for security, I'll post a link. I don't want to post a link if there might be a virus. Really need DU to be up and running!

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Qutzupalotl

(14,302 posts)
1. I think so.
Thu May 11, 2017, 03:44 PM
May 2017

Louise Mensch is well connected and gets scoops before most others. Her twitter feed engages in a lot of speculation, but denotes it as such to distinguish from the factual reporting that she puts on her blog.

Marthe48

(16,938 posts)
6. I was worried about hacks and viruses
Thu May 11, 2017, 03:50 PM
May 2017

The news isn't going to settle down any time soon. Sure to be lots of rumors and updates. I was gone a few hours can't believe I came home to the FBI raiding GOP offices. delighted

Marthe48

(16,938 posts)
14. Thank you!
Thu May 11, 2017, 04:49 PM
May 2017

Last night, the google chrome urgent update screen popped up, the one I think is a virus, while I was logged in on DU. I closed that screen, notified the administrators, logged out, deleted all the surfing I had just done, logged back in and changed my password. But I swear I'm not paranoid

Interestingly, I was looking for information on Russian birth control, preferred methods, before I got the chrome warning.

MineralMan

(146,287 posts)
2. Some say yes; some say no...
Thu May 11, 2017, 03:45 PM
May 2017

I have no idea. We'll wait and see whether its predictions are accurate, I guess.

MelissaB

(16,420 posts)
3. Much of what is posted there is confirmed by the MSM. Read with a grain of salt and wait.
Thu May 11, 2017, 03:47 PM
May 2017

That's my advice.

 

LaydeeBug

(10,291 posts)
4. Mostly. And lately, her sources have been checking out. This is Louise Mensch
Thu May 11, 2017, 03:49 PM
May 2017

Her and Claude Taylor and a few Gopee-ers have been the Woodward and Bernstein of this whole thing.

MelissaB

(16,420 posts)
9. Yes! I think when this is done several of these people on Twitter should be thanked for their
Thu May 11, 2017, 03:56 PM
May 2017

service. They use their real names, have done for no pay, and this has affected their life. Claude has posted he has received threats.

 

PEJ27

(5 posts)
7. Yep, and Louise Mensch has been months ahead of MSM
Thu May 11, 2017, 03:51 PM
May 2017

She's got a ton of sources and a great nose for news.

L. Coyote

(51,129 posts)
8. DU'ers are coming around to following her closely due to her intel sources and scoops.
Thu May 11, 2017, 03:53 PM
May 2017

But, when she was first posted here, all hell broke loose because she is a conservative (and a never trumper).

Note this push back on her reporting. (DU was hacked and taken down as this thread started going viral on election day. Note the view count.)

FBI has FISA warrant for Trump secret server connected to Russia.

DesertRat

(27,995 posts)
12. I have mixed feelings about her
Thu May 11, 2017, 04:07 PM
May 2017

Louise Mensch was a Conservative member of Parliament before moving to the US. I WANT her info. to be credible, and some of it has been confirmed. Some of it reads more like conjecture and conspiracy theory.

So, like MelissaB suggested, I take it with a grain of salt and wait.

Ilsa

(61,694 posts)
15. Mensch is usually pretty good at grading
Thu May 11, 2017, 04:54 PM
May 2017

what is confirmed, what is rumored, and what is conjecture.

Dana Zhukova

(2 posts)
16. Who knows! We're GOP POWs & she's like a VOA broadcast that help is on the way
Thu May 11, 2017, 07:21 PM
May 2017

Haven't followed her for very long but, so far, she's spot on--plenty. Enough to make me pay attention. But even if her conclusions were wrong 75% of the time, I'd still follow her because her fact-finding is great. I always learn something new that would never have turned up in my usual news-hounding. She frequently makes some unexpected connection b/w Fact A and Fact R that marvelously explains Fact Z. What she does best is make me feel more certain that the bad guys aren't getting away with anything and that the good guys will win. For me, everything she says reinforces my hope that law enforcement, deep blue techies and others are actively working this; that they've found evidence enough to take Team Trump down--that it's not just a fantasy.

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