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bemildred

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24. RFEL is a government news site.

Reply to uhnope (Reply #21)

Mon Jul 18, 2016, 10:20 AM

Jul 2016

Bellingcat is some guys advocacy blog.

The Week is another, which I also avoid using for the same reason, it's biased and selective in its reporting.

I don't use Iranian sources much for the same reason, there is news there, but they make stuff up and leave things out.

RFEL generally publishes US gov't slant, but they don't just leave things out or make them up.

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Bellingcat claims Russia faked MH17 evidence to accuse Ukraine [View all] uhnope Jul 2016 OP

Russia all but shot it down Duckhunter935 Jul 2016 #1

Dumb propaganda reorg Jul 2016 #2

so a screen grab of Kremlin talking points in a personal insulting attack uhnope Jul 2016 #3

I guess you meant this picture reorg Jul 2016 #6

Please post more from the stock of Kremlin agitprop images uhnope Jul 2016 #7

Are you employed by the state propaganda channel RFE? reorg Jul 2016 #8

+100 AntiBank Jul 2016 #11

Cheap shot. He may have been an amatuer but he is well educated now and the rest of his group... marble falls Jul 2016 #4

Not an expert in any way reorg Jul 2016 #5

deny, deflect, distract.... uhnope Jul 2016 #9

post neocon bilge, tools of the trade AntiBank Jul 2016 #12

So our only choices are a "chubby little liar" or some pilot and DIY "expert"? FBaggins Jul 2016 #13

No these are not the only choices reorg Jul 2016 #18

Yet you seem desperate to ignore the DSB report FBaggins Jul 2016 #29

Desperate? I didn't even mention it. reorg Jul 2016 #32

Actually... you tried really hard to avoid mentioning it FBaggins Jul 2016 #33

Look, I'm not interested reorg Jul 2016 #34

If I had embarassed myself that badly, I wouldn't be interested in continuing either... FBaggins Jul 2016 #38

oh, is that so ... my 'scores' of posts 'over the last COUPLE OF YEARS' reorg Jul 2016 #39

this was a masterful takedown & dissection uhnope Jul 2016 #35

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typical neocon claptrap posting , and to use thoroughly discredited Eliot Higgins? LOLOL AntiBank Jul 2016 #10

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"it makes my OPs look even better" uawchild Jul 2016 #23

Is Higgins being PAID to write this stuff? uawchild Jul 2016 #20

omg--irony is so dead on the Internet uhnope Jul 2016 #22

Bellingcat is LBN like Nakedcapitalism is LBN, i.e. not LBN. bemildred Jul 2016 #14

always is this neocon dregs in LBN and elsewhere AntiBank Jul 2016 #17

yeah yeah yeah. Anything truthful about the Russia gov = "neocon" uhnope Jul 2016 #19

um no, it's from a news site uhnope Jul 2016 #21

RFEL is a government news site. bemildred Jul 2016 #24

so is the BBC if you want to get down to it uhnope Jul 2016 #25

Yeah, I like BBC too. bemildred Jul 2016 #26

Radio Free Europe is a known US propaganda site uawchild Jul 2016 #27

There are no unbiased sites. Zippo, none. We are on our own out here. Nobody to trust. bemildred Jul 2016 #28

True, but SOME are more BIASED than others. uawchild Jul 2016 #30

Gone West Again Young M? uhnope Jul 2016 #31

I'd pointed out a few of them back in '14... Blue_Tires Jul 2016 #36

and lest anyone forget: Blue_Tires Jul 2016 #37